I don’t like the first few days of a new year. Every year they make me feel really down. I don’t know why. It’s just a general malaise.
Eh.
Of course the floods, potential war and general doom and gloom aren’t going to help much either 
I love this time of year. I think I have SAD in reverse - the onset of summer makes me feel fed up. heh.
I saw the store starting to sell mini easter eggs today, so before you you know it, we’ll be in April. *grin.
Hope you feel better soon though.
*you you?
hrmm.
We’re practically flooded in! Wokingham is in the middle of the Thames Valley - major roads are being cut off. It’s bringing merry hell for the ambulance service I work for. We had two flooded engines today.
On the other hand… cadbury’s creme eggs soon.
Sounds like an excellent time to get a kayak! See? There’s a positive side! 
They’ve been out since before Christmas here in Nottingham.
They’ve got them in the States, too. I also found Cadbury’s Dairy Milk on sale today. On the other hand, I greeted New Year’s Day with no job, no driver’s license, and a head cold! I’ve taken care of the driver’s license, but the rest linger on. I know I should greet the New Year with hope and joy. It’s just that some years are harder than others.
Stay dry, and good luck!
CJ
New Year always makes me brood that I wasted the last one.
Yea, I’m with FisherQueen. I always start thinking about all of the things I DIDN’T accomplish the previous year and how much I need to do this year to get “back on track” and then I get bogged down and depressed. Plus, it’s cold and not at all snowy, which doesn’t help. Boo.
Yeah, this one was particularly bad. 2003 is gonna be the year when I make Major Changes, because I don’t want to go through these feelings again next December.
Great idea! - FWIW
I’m working on it. And many people are gonna be shocked, but they’ll just have to deal.
I think that each of my New Years have taken it upon themselves to out-depress the ones before them. The year before last I spent most of the 1st sitting on my ass, on the phone and bored because I couldn’t yet drive and my parents were busy.
Last year, I spent the 1st sitting on my ass yet again, this time without anyone to talk to on the phone because everyone was partying in distant vacation spots.
But this year was astounding in its fabulous lack of fabulousness. I spent most of the night/morning of the 31/1 on Interstate 44 between Missouri and Oklahoma. Yes, kids, there is nothing more fun and exciting to usher in the new year than a dark stretch of highway through Puritan Land on which semis are zooming past you at eighty miles per hour.
Happy friggin’ holidays.
The second and third were spent sleeping. I feel much better.