When is this stupid "winter"over?

[Cheesecake]

I'm in need of daylight. And sun, and well, just light I guess. I get up and out the door before it's light out. Then when I go home it's dark already as well. The only daylight I see is the minute and a half it takes me to walk from the tram stop to my office (it gets light while I'm on the tram). My office is on the inside of the building, which means my windows look out to a little hole within the building, which really doesn't let in nearly enough light especially on cloudy days like - well, the entire Dutch winter.

I could deal with winter if it would just be super cold and clear and light, but the way it is here, I just want to crawl back into bed.

How's winter where you are? Are you dying for daylight like me? (And if it's as bad as here, do you have any awesome tips to give yourself more energy besides caffeine and more caffeine?)

[Dorothy Zbornak]

It's killing me here. It has been so overcast, too. I just drink a lot of coffee. I always tell myself that the worst is over after Dec. 21, but I still feel like it's getting dark way too early here.

Sent from the future.

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The seattle winters are pretty bad too. There's full daylight between 8am-4pm. Most days I'm coming and going in the dark.

I can't imagine doing winter in iceland though. We went for vacation one thanksgiving and the sun was only up between 11-2.

I'm ready for summer.

[Wanderista]

Jan 10, 2013 10:51:18 GMT -5 @uwhuskygirl said:

The seattle winters are pretty bad too. There's full daylight between 8am-4pm. Most days I'm coming and going in the dark.

I can't imagine doing winter in iceland though. We went for vacation one thanksgiving and the sun was only up between 11-2.

I'm ready for summer.

:Y: Agreed!

[echo]

I am very happy that we are having a mild winter,we are barely needing to turn on the heat this year.

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We spent two weeks in TX at christmas and I swear that the extra sunlight has done wonders for me! It did get really cold and snow there, but for most of the 2 weeks, it was mild and sunshiney. Paris is grey, cold and rainy. :/

[glitterfart]

I enjoyed spending three weeks at Christmas in AR, and the sunshine was awesome. I felt like a different person. I only took a nap once the whole time, and here....well let´s just say whenever my toddler goes down, I go down. And today is grey and snowy and icy and just blah. Boo.

[Cheesecake]

My christmas vacation was in the pacific northwest, so I didn't get uch more clear sky and/or sunshine there than I do here. It was a super awesome vacation though, so no complaints. It looks like it's slowly getting clearer and colder here, so who knows, maybe we'll get lucky and actually have some sun over the weekend?!

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Winter here isn't too bad. We've actually been getting quite a bit of daylight. It was nice though to spend a week in Hong Kong where it was much much warmer and sunnier in general.