Fall back

Everyone has an opinion about Daylight Savings Time whether it's an outdated hanger on from days gone by or just inconvenient but I know that when it ends, the dread winter is upon us. For Jeff and I who leave the house by 4:45am every morning, the end of DST means we spend our two hour commute in the dark on the way into the city and then as we leave by 5pm, we're commuting two hours back out in the dark. All in all, I think during these winter months, we spend more time awake in the dark than not. So it's cause to wonder how exactly we stay rather even-keeled and not so fucked up as to want to kill ourselves in the gray doldrums of the season, especially since neither of us take those uppity mood enhancers so popular these days. From what I can tell of our routine, seems like mind-numbing, linear-task oriented craft projects keep us from breaking into pieces. So far, we've taken up cross-stitching and quilting so this year, I think we're actually going to try our hand at knitting. I'm also taking up snow-boarding at the local mountain, but that's something else all together.