Overcoming the Winter Blahsies

Q: What do your faithful Sparklife scribes and Yogi Bear have in common?

A: Other than being smarter than your average bear, we both have the natural inclination, when winter comes, to hibernate.

As the days grow short and the temperatures drop, we often have a hard time mustering the enthusiasm to get out of bed in the afternoon morning. Life goes on all around us, but for some reason, we're just not feelin' it. If it were up to us, we would retreat to our Snuggie-lined beds and sleep like the shut-ins we feel like being until there were more than eight hours of sunlight in a day. Use your fancy doctor lingo and call it Seasonal Affective Disorder all you want, Mayo Clinic; we call it a plain old case of the Winter Blahsies. Thank goodness for the holidays, because if winter didn't involve presents, we might jab a sharpened candy cane in our eye.

But enough is enough. These months should be merry and bright. We've compiled a list of things we hope might improve our will to live this winter. We think they might work. Or maybe they won't. We don't really care. We don't really care about anything. Blah.

• Eggnog.
• Goat cheese.
• Any kind of cheese.
• Watching A Christmas Story on a continuous loop.
• The Cute Thing of the Week.
• Fires (the wood-in-a-fireplace kind, not the gas kind or the arson kind).
• Sledding.
• Snow days.
• Blankets (but not scratchy wool ones; why are those made, anyway?)
• Hot apple cider.
• The Nutcracker.
• Party crackers.
• Candles.
• Baths.
• Episodes of Glee online.
• Best of 2009 lists and shows.
• Movies that come out on Christmas.
• Elfing yourself.
• Elfing your teachers and posting the results on Facebook.
• Decorating cookies.
• Eating those cookies.
• Car seat warmers.
• Fuzzy socks.
• Space heaters.
• Books.
• Screaming Santa photos.

How do you get through the Winter Blahsies?

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