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| Looked for a copyright-free image for 'doldrums' and found this picture of Doldrum Bay. Wondering if it's a real place. If yes...then where? But need to get this done...better make a note and look it up later. Wherever it is, it actually looks more awe-inducing than doldrums-inducing. |
Defining Terms (Unnecessarily)
First of all I'd like to say what a great word 'doldrums' is. It just sounds exactly like what it is.
And, okay, now I have to say...second of all; that first line forced me to look up 'that word for something that sounds like what it means'.
Onomatopoeia is the word I was looking for. Onomatopoeia doesn't sound like it would mean what it means at all.
It sounds like it would mean urinating on a mountain top or something. Well, really, to me it just sounds like a completely made-up word. It may as well be: 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'. Which backwards, according to the song is: Dociousalieexpisticfragicalirupus ...but really is: suoicodilaipxecitsiligarfilacrepus.
But I digress.
Which really should be the name of this blog...but isn't.
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| One night in a blizzard on my work trip, and an overcast day at home... annnnnd I'm done with winter. Thanks very much. (There is, of course, every chance that Mother Nature isn't done with me yet.) |
Down in the Dumps
What I intended to talk about was how the winter doldrums have set in over here.
I think a big reason is that I thought I had three days off, but only have two. Which after two back-to-back trips...doesn't seem like enough. Especially since I'm about to do another two trips back-to-back...and they're extra-challenging ones.
It shouldn't be news to me at this point that being tired, being away from home, and eating badly lead to feeling badly.
That typically leads to feeling more tired, eating more badly, and feeling all-around worse...
Ugh. For sure, being gone 8 out of 10 days is too much. But, I have to take full responsibility for that. It was my call. I'm trying to back up trips so I can go to Mexico later on. I can't really complain...and yet...I am. Why?
Because I suddenly am experiencing winter doldrums and that's what they do...they make things look black. They make things feel like they'll never change. They make you want to wear your pajamas and eat a lot of sugar. (Or that's my experience anyhow.)
Because I suddenly am experiencing winter doldrums and that's what they do...they make things look black. They make things feel like they'll never change. They make you want to wear your pajamas and eat a lot of sugar. (Or that's my experience anyhow.)
The online dictionary uses these words to define 'doldrums': slow, slack, sluggish, subdued, stagnant, flat, dull...
Yep. All that.
I didn't really realize how 'blue-blah' (Michael's term for it) that I was feeling until I noticed I was goofing off on Pinterest looking up things about breaking out of a fashion rut, dieting, raising my energy, and attracting more positive people.
Because I'm feeling a) in a rut, b) puffy and bloated and icky, c) lethargic, and d) like I suddenly know a lot of people who make no sense to me at all.
Trying to Turn It Around
I suspect if the weather was a little warmer and sunnier, then: my life, my body, my energy, and my concept of people's positivity levels would improve dramatically.
"Starting with the (wo)man in the mirror" on the positivity thing wouldn't be a bad idea...except that I'm in the doldrums and I would probably have a hard time acting on any observations I might make.
So...I may as well go work out. Experience says I will feel better when I'm done...and my mind says: I'm already miserable, why not?
Here's hoping you're in a better place than me today...and that your skies have nary a dark cloud in them.
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