Winter blues

Weather really does seem to effect your mood. While I don't suffer from SADD or anything I do find I feel happier and more energetic when the sun is out. Yesterday was a glorious winter day - sunny and mild. Today is not cold but wet and yuck and I have no motivation to do anything. The forecast for the next 4 days is for much of the same - blah! Down south they have had some very bad snow storms and a lot of people are stranded without power so I shouldn't really complain. I often wonder what my friends in places like Minnesota and Wisconsin think when I moan about how cold it is because compared to the winter temperatures they get our idea of "cold" is nothing. I am sure though if you lived in a really cold place you would have good winter clothing and excellent heating in your house and power lines would be built to withstand heavy snow fall unlike those down south. In New Zealand we tend to only heat the living room in the house and all huddle in there and freeze our butts off when we go anywhere else in the house - lol! And of course where I live no-one would have a clue how to drive in snow - just as well it never snows here! We went away last weekend and had to drive over a very big hill that sometimes gets snow on the top in winter. I was terrified it would snow in case we crashed the car even though it would have been great to let the girls see snow for the first time in their life.

The All Blacks play Ireland tomorrow night.


A photo of our backyard a few weeks ago - this is the type of winter day I love: