So that's why I've been grouchy!

[selenay]

The sun is shining and the sky is blue for the first time in over three weeks. And suddenly my funk is gone - I'm feeling cheerful and hopeful even though my back is still quite painful.

Hmm.

I'd never considered myself to have seasonally-affected moods before. Turns out that I do, though. Damn.

In other news, Best Friend in America flies in tonight for a visit! Woo! I am rather ridiculously excited about this. It's so good to have the weather behaving this weekend so that I can show her my new home at its best. Right now, I'm considering having a road trip along the coast on Saturday and mooching around the city on Sunday. If I can arrange it with work, I'm going to leave early tomorrow so that we can go for a walk on the beach and then have supper at my local seafood place.

It's going to be so much fun :-)

The Tour continues to be thoroughly enthralling. Someone yesterday commented that this is the most exciting Tour since, er, 2005 (Lance's last) and that it seems like Armstrong's presence has livened up the peloton a lot. While I don't want to attribute the recent problems in cycling to Armstrong's retirement, I have to admit that this Tour has already had more drama than the previous ones and none of it has been related to drug busts. No, I don't think that it's entirely down to Armstrong being there but I am willing to admit that it's a factor in the level of excitement in this year's race. Cavendish would be the other factor :-)

Problem is, I don't really know how we combat that. All the riders that have got me really excited over the last few years have been arrested at some stage in the race for failing dope controls. On the one hand, the sport is catching the cheats. OTOH, it's been getting hard to continue being thrilled and excited about riders when you're just waiting for them to get busted. I'm really hoping that the new, young riders that are starting to come through will reverse that trend.

In other news, I bound off a sock last night and it actually fits :-) This is particularly exciting because it's the first pair that really do that - fit, I mean.

I've gone down a needle size to 2.25mm, which has produced a denser, firmer fabric. I'm a pretty loose knitter at 2.5mm needles were not working well with the very fine sock yarns that I like. I also re-measured my feet and discovered that I'd been working to the wrong measurements for all these months. Those two factors combined have produced a sock that fits beautifully and feels really great. Yay me! I shall cast on the second one in the pair tonight and probably work on it while I wait at the airport.

My lacy sweater is proceeding well. In fact, it's proceeding much faster than I'd anticipated (all those hours of Tour watching are a help) and, after a week, I'm already most of the way up the back. It's entirely possible that I'll finish it by the end of the month. Weird feeling.

In cat news, I have finally figured out where Annie goes when she disappears in my office. My wireless router sits on a shelf, hidden by the hutches over the desks. Annie has discovered that she can lie on the shelf with her head and front paws pillowed on the lovely, warm router and take a really comfy nap. Silly kiten. I am onto her now!

See? I must be feeling better because I just babbled extensively. Heh.

Comments

[fahrenheit-f430.livejournal.com]

Stupid thought, but have a word with your doctor about Vitamin D megadoses. They're newly fangled over here, but I've found a double daily dose (the SAD recommended dosage) of Vit D capsules WITH evening primrose has cut my PMT moodswings.

[selenay]

I'm already taking Vit D supplements (and calcium and Vit C...) but I've been reading around a bit and the dosage that my doc suggested isn't actually, er, theraputic. The studies that actually show Vit D + Calcium having benefits for bone density (the reason she wants me on it) also show that the benefits only start with a dose approximately double what I'm taking.

I'm thinking that I'll do some more reading to make sure that I don't end up with toxic amounts and then up my dosage. Plus I may add some evening primrose to see what it does :-) I noticed that my mood improved a bit when I started the Vit D, but obviously not enough to counter-act the times when I get into a really depressed funk!

[sazandra.livejournal.com]

Before a certain greyness grew too big he used to vanish into thin air in the kitchen. He wasn't along the side of the washing machine (that was what Impy had done years before) and we were mystified where he was going until one day my sister saw him go under the desk - then vanish. What we soon discovered was that he was clambering up the back of the drawers then into the top drawer. Until he grew too large to squeeze over the back of the top drawer if we couldn't find him that was our first place to check, well open the drawer an inch or so then stick your hand in until you found furriness or a wet nose made contact. Ah happy memories :)

[selenay]

Before they got too big, the kittens used to regularly sneak into the top drawers of our desks in the office. You'd look around when it was time to pack up the office for the day, not see them and go straight to the desk drawer. There you would find two kittens curled up for a nice nap.

They're too big now, but it's a fond memory :-) It's also why I couldn't work out where Annie was hiding - the desk drawer was the first place I tried! She's exceedingly good at finding comfy warm spots :-)

[clairecnc.livejournal.com]

Re SAD type things, have you considered one of the SAD lamps, I've heard quite good things about them as long as you can tolerate the brightness of the lamp!!

[selenay]

It's not something I've considered before, but now that I'm aware of just how much my mood is affected by the lack of sunlight I may start to look into one.