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Happy New Year.

Terri Oberg — Fri, 2 Jan 2009 12:37:57 -0500

Thank you, I enjoy reading your posts as well.

I have slowly become more active since writing this post. Been to doctor's appointments, spent New Year's Eve with a few of my S.O.'s friends (one in particular whom I always viewed as a bit of a grumpy, cantankerous fellow, but was delighted to discover he's not so bad), started taking down the holiday decorations and made 2 trips to Best Buy in an attempt to find a new power adapter for my laptop after my dog chewed up the old one. There are still a couple of days left in which I will attempt to get myself back into the usual routine. I feel a bit more stable since my days of decompressing. I know in my heart that I needed these empty days with nothing on my plate, it is my guilty conscience that I must convince and keep at bay.

I almost look forward to returning to work....almost.

Christmas blues are part of the holiday

Ken Braiterman — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:40:02 -0500

I've been going through the same thing myself all week, and this year, it's been epspecially hard for some reason. This year, we both shut down right after Christmas, which makes sense because Christmas is so stressful and tiring for so many reasons. I had a few bad days the week before Christmas as well this year, which is unusual for me.

You've wisely given yourself permission to "go down" for a while, with a general idea of when you need to be back to whatever is "normal" for you again. Meanwhile, you're doing easy, pleasant things you enjoy while your system repairs itself. You are not putting undue pressure on yourself to do things you normally do that are difficult right now.

One common way of dealing with the holiday blues (which I think makes them worse) is drinking too much on New Year's Eve. But any fun activity with friends for New Year, without too much alcohol, is a great piece of a Christmas blues plan. Since I was my family's guest on Christmas, I'll be taking them out to dinner on New Year's Day. That's something we all enjoy.

HappyNew Year. I love your posts.

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Terri Oberg — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:25:22 -0500

I have this week off from work. I needed it. My yearly December Bah-Humbug attitude was spilling over into all aspects of my life. I found myself being irritated by all things great and small.