Dim, dingy, drab
Dank, despairing
Gloomy, glowerous
Misty, murky
Inky
Somber, stygian
Dark. Dark. Dark.
At 5pm, I fall back into a world from which all light and laughter have been sucked.
If I don’t see some DAYLIGHT soon, there will be no SAVING my sanity in TIME.
Peg-o-Leg's Ramblings 
Wow, that was, uh, dark. Everything okay?
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I’m fine. I’m just already sick of the time change from last weekend. You get out of work in the dark and it’s depressing. Did the time change for you?
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Yes. I’m desperate to go to bed by 8:00 p.m. Pretty pathetic.
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Oh my gosh! I’ve been unable to stay up past 7:30 pm! Yikes. I go to bed and fall asleep and then wake up at 3 am. Love this time of year and hate this time of year.
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this is an uncharacteristic post…what happened to the funny lady? i hope its just the time change and nothing else.
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I’m just fine! I just hate coming out of work when it’s dark outside. I was hoping to be funny as well as depressed, but I think it came down on the side of gloomy.
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You go ahead and Be True to yourself. If you feel rotten, some of us will “get you” because we don’t like spending most our lives now in darkness, either!. I have a very brief window each day to get out door work done, and here we are again…the duldroms of winter.
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It is depressing. I remember once when I worked at a job with 10 hour days, I’d drive to work in the dark, stay inside all day, then drive home in the dark. I felt like a vampire…walking dead. On my days off, the sunlight would be blinding.
When the darkness gets me down, I just tell myself to hold on until Dec. 21st then the days start sloooowly getting longer again.
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I had a job like that once. My cubicle was in the middle of a big building, so I didn’t have access to any windows and never saw the sun. That would be a perfect job for the undead, now that you mention it.
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As I said to Public Works earlier this week…. pre-kids, I hated the time change. Coming home from work in the dark was depressing. However, with kids, the time change is wonderful. The boys go to bed at 7pm without a whine or whimper. You just can argue with a word like ‘dark’. (smile)
Still, I know what you mean. It is challenging to be ‘up’ when the sunlight is gone.
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That is the only good thing about this. I remember being a kid and having to go to sleep in the summer when it was still light. To add insult to injury, we could hear the other neighborhood kids playing outside, right under our bedroom windows. Unfair!
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I hate it too. And it is only going to get worse before it gets better.
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Glad to see someone else shares my gloomy outlook on things.
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I thought I detected a tiny glimpse of humor, glad it wasn’t my imagination. This, too, shall pass.
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I’m waiting for someone to point out how bad they have it way up north where it’s dark for months at a time.
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I’m up north, but not so far north that is dark for months at a time. It is only dark for 14 hours a day right now – which won’t make you feel any better, and sure doesn’t do much for my mood… except it gives me an excuse to ramp up my chocolate consumption.
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I am SO with you on the chocolate. But I’m craving warm, chocolatey brownies with hot fudge sauce.
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You’ll feel better soon… around May 2012.
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You know, the older I get the more reasons I find to drink heavily.
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HA HAHA HA HA! 😀
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I’m not kidding. I never used to drink to set a good example for the children. Now that they’re out of the house, I swill down 2 glasses of wine ROUTINELY on a Friday night.
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Don’t hate me…I LOVE this time of year. It makes me happy to have it dark. I’ll save you the trouble of asking: yes, I can see my reflection in a mirror, so I’m not a vampire. 😉
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So it really, REALLY wouldn’t bother you if I flung a rosary made out of garlic around your neck?
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I applaud your efforts to bring “stygian” back into common parlance.
I love fall weather, but I do wish it would stay daylight just a bit longer.
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I applaud YOUR efforts to bring “parlance” back as a common manner or mode of speech.
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Oh, I see what you did, there . . .
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Tell me again why we have to go through this twice a year? At least in the fall we gain an hour, and I can actually make it to my 6am water aerobics class.
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Yeah, but what about those of us who hit the gym at 5pm? The place is packed after work now, because nobody has anything else to do in the dark. I don’t wanna even go anymore, because I want to go home and BAKE and EAT and HIBERNATE in front of my TV.
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It’s. Not. Right.
I think people are starting to wonder why I’m walking around with a lamp on my head.
Maybe.
🙂
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People have been remarking on your coalminer look, but I think you rock it.
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*cough cough*
I think I’ve got the black-lung, pop…
🙂
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MerMAN, pop, merMAN!!
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Uh oh, sounds like someone is reacting to LSD. Oops, I meant LDS (Light Deprivation Syndrome).
I hear Tiera Del Fuego is beautiful and bright this time of year.
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Otherwise known as SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder). Going to get tickets for Tierra Del Fuego…
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We can’t always be upbeat! I like seeing that my blogging friends have a dark side. Hang in there peg!
Oh, woeful, woeful, woeful day! There. I feel better now. You?
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The sun came out today, so I do feel better. But catch me around 5 and I’m sure to be back in the doldrums.
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I have the same reaction every year when it starts to get dark earlier and earlier. It really starts to affect my motivation and happiness when I don’t get enough sunlight or spend enough time outdoors. I seem to make this discovery again every year like it’s a big surprise.
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You’re right – it DOES seem like a new thing every year. Maybe we just block it out so we don’t have to deal with the pain.
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Hey, Inky was one of the original pacman dudes! Hopefully you aren’t playing with “Drinky”. Have a great weekend with my other sisters, and buy a tanning bulb, for God’s sake!!!
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I think Inky was one of the original 8 dwarves, before he moved to LA and opened his own tat shop. Just heading out for Ann Arbor for a wild weekend. We’ll be sure to corrupt your wife 🙂
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Ulgh, I feel you, Peg! I HATE when it’s dark out at 5pm. I’m usually okay until January, then there are no holidays to look forward to and it seems like it’ll never end!
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You’re so right, Jules. All you have in January is darkness and the bills from Christmas. Ugh!
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Here’s a picker-upper: I just voted for your caption over my own in The Great’s caption contest. So, get out your dancin’ shoes, woman, and do a jig.
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Woo hoo! Thanks for doing the right thing, Renee. 🙂
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I just voted for you, too. René-you-Darla always get in the top five, so if I vote a different one each day, the three of you win. Right? Thank YOU for picking me up last week.
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Thanks! Sometimes life kicks us around a little, doesn’t it? I hope things are better this week.
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When told the reason for daylight saving time the old Indian said…
‘Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket.’
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Ha ha! That’s so true. Daylight saving time really is dumb.
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Even my cats hate it as much as I do. They have an earlier curfew, so they aren’t vulnerable to wildlife such as rabid raccoons, nutria, feral cats and oh yea, the occasional gator.
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My cat is not allowed out because she doesn’t have the front claws. She’s always trying to make a bolt for freedom and when successful, she just stands on the deck meowing, clueless as to what to do.
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I know what you mean – it’s dark when I get up in the morning, it’s just about light when I get to work ( at the moment ) and it’s dark by 4pm. Infact it’s been so dark and dreary that my solar powered lights haven’t built up enough energy to work properly!
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If even your solar powered lights can’t get the energy up for work, how are you supposed to?
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