Do you ever feel like a hamster on a wheel?

[MrsMB]

I do. It's one of the many things I dislike about Winter.

[Deleted]

I feel the same about winter. I keep telling myself it will be warmer in a few weeks, even though it likely won't be, but it makes me feel better about it.

[awick14]

I also feel this way, every winter.

Once the weather warms up it will be a little better.

It's kinda also the reason that I took in another foster because I feel like I need a purpose aside from regular day to day activities.

[Blue Moon]

Totally. I am so thankful I'm off in the summer to break up the monotony of the day to day.

[mac08]

Absolutely.  I am totally feeling some winter blues lately, January is the worst.

[katespade]

See, I feel worse about this kind of thing in the summer than I do in the winter. Everyone else is out doing stuff and I'm still just sitting at home and going through the basic motions.

[pooh8402]

yep. I am now getting excited about making various plans for spring, just to get out of the house.

[Alyssa]

Every day seems to blend into the next.

Drop kids off at school -  work -  dinner -  play with kids -  bedtime routine - TV - Sleep

REPEAT

[Deleted]

Yes! I cannot wait until spring.

It's the same thing day after day. Then on weekends we usually just stay home.

[estrellita]

Every. Day. My job has bored me to death lately. There's no point in them training me on anything new when sometime in the next month, I'll be gone for 3 months. I just hate when my days all look exactly the same, minus a few minor things. Yawn! And yeah, it does seem worse in the winter. It was nice last week/this weekend, and I would have loved to go for a walk, but by the time I get home from work it's dark so I just end up hibernating as usual.

[pooh8402]

Jan 28, 2015 18:00:00 GMT -5 jjwritergirl said:

Jan 28, 2015 16:48:29 GMT -5 pooh8402 said:

yep. I am now getting excited about making various plans for spring, just to get out of the house.

My bitter, snowed in, midwestern self is thinking "How could someone in the heat and sunshine of Texas possibly feel this way too?"

But obviously I have never lived there to know. lol. 

it's not all heat and sunshine, lol. this week it is, but last week was cold (highs in the 40s, which is cold to me) and rainy. we set rainfall records in my area. and November and late December were quite cold, with freeze warnings. I feel like winter started early this year, so it feels long already.

but again, I don't deal with snow or sub-freezing (or even sub-zero) temps very often. so maybe I'm just whining. I hate the cold with a passion. give me 100+ in August over 40 in January.

[estrellita]

I'd take 40 in Jan over -40 in Jan! (aka that's where our "nice temps" were last week - upper 30s and 40s)

-Bitter Midwesterner

[travelbug]

Yes... Winter is a horrible time of year. I try to have something fun in every awful month. January is always the worst though. Spring cannot come soon enough!