Who feels stagnant in the Cold and Snowy Winters? (climate, hot, warm)

[hollyrose]

Just wondering if anyone feels the same way I do every winter in New Hampshire. I feel stagnant in the winter especially when it is really cold or snowy and gray. Anyone else?

I contemplate moving to a warmer climate by this time every year,lol! Now that my husband has finished his masters degree we just might!

[§AB]

Yes, I certainly do. While our winters are not snowy, they are cold, very cloudy and therefore very depressing.

[Jammie]

I definitely feel blah in the wintertime. It's just such a drab and cold season up here. AND I can go through summer pain-free yet every winter I feel horrible.

[city_data91]

I can't wait to get out of the Northeast. This is my last winter here.

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by hollyrose

Just wondering if anyone feels the same way I do every winter in New Hampshire. I feel stagnant in the winter especially when it is really cold or snowy and gray. Anyone else?

I contemplate moving to a warmer climate by this time every year,lol! Now that my husband has finished his masters degree we just might!

In my opinion, the best way to combat the winter blahs is to take up a winter sport. Snowshoeing is quite fun as well as skiing.

[susancruzs]

I'm not working so I'm home and this winter has bugged me a little bit. I get out and walk every day for at least 40 minutes, preferably an hour. I practice my keyboard every day, I've always wanted to play the piano so I bought a keyboard, its fun.

I usually go to the library every day to see what is new, read a few papers, I get the local one but not the Chicago Tribune or Milwaukee paper. There's always a group to chit chat and solve the world problems at the library! I go to lunch with my neighbor once or twice a week and I meet the boys that did my remodeling on Fridays.

If I didn't make myself get out and do these things, I would go crazy! In Illinois I was working 40 hrs. a week at Abbott's (manpower contractor) plus some Saturdays, so coming here with no job was a little tough but if I feel down or weather weary, I get out of the house!

End of my story, if I feel stagnant I fight it! I have to because I don't know a ton of people here, some but not that many home like I am.

[§AB]

today's weather (and that of the last 3 days) has been absolute rubbish. Cold, windy and overcast, just the typical crap that characterises winter here.

As for getting out of the house, who the hell would want to do that in this rubbish weather, and in what is supposed to be "summer" aswell?

The only thing you can do in this weather is pig out on KFC and get wasted, but then I'd get even fatter

[Jammie]

Yea SAB, winter is a bad time for gaining weight. I have to exercise a LOT extra to prevent it.

Granite, your idea is a good one for people who like the cold, but I'm just greatful when I don't have to be outside during the winter. You know how windy my winters can be and it's just miserable even if it's 10 degrees outside because our windchills are probably minus 10 those days and that's pretty avg. for Dec. and Jan. Since it's 35 degrees outside today, you'd think it'd be a pleasant morning for a walk, but our winds are roaring again and it's just not comfy out there~for me anyway. For people like me, it's a better idea to get a membership at the Y and go play in the pool or sit in the hot tub.

I imagine the same holds true for people who don't like the heat. My idea of a wonderful time when it's 90 is to go to the pool and play and tan. Some of you would find that very miserable.

[bellafinzi]

I felt that way before I planted bamboo and a range of other broadleaf evergreens in my yard. So now, no matter what time of year, my backyard feels inviting and exotic.

Even on rainy summer days the large foliage plants make me feel like I'm in a tropical rain forest.

Still working on my garden pages, but they'll give you an idea of what I'm talking about:

Syracuse Gardening
Growing Bamboo in Syracuse
Syracuse Broadleaf Evergreens

[§AB]

I can plant 100 palm trees in my yard, yet that is not going to get rid of the slate grey skies, cold damp dagger-like winds and the resulting monochrome of the landscape.