Seasonal Shift

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Woo! We have hit critical autumnal light angle!

I don't know why, but somewhere in the last week of August the sun finally hits an angle in the sky that makes my brain hit the Autumn switch. And since I goddamn LOVE autumn, I am totally cool with this. It means I can kick back and watch my mood meter move steadily upward,* enjoy the first blush of fall colors, swear mightily at my own damn allergies (not everything about fall is great), wear fluffy socks, make mulled apple ginger ale, start enjoying soup and Deeper'n'Ever Pie again, wear colors that actually look good on me, and hope that this year everyone shuts the fuck up about Pumpkin Spice-flavored drinks, because that is not a thing to give a shit about.** (The thing to give a shit about is when people fuck up delicious pumpkin cookies with chocolate chips. That's just a CRIME.)

Anyway! Fall is back! I'm gonna go make me a Fall Colors Necklace to celebrate. I only have 125 or so of them at the moment. I need more!


*I have no idea why; this doesn't seem to be linked to anything but seasons. Some kind of reverse-SAD where my overall mood shoots up starting around this time each year.

**Especially if you smugly point out that "It has NO PUMPKINS IN IT!" like you're the grownup in a '90s commercial for Apple Jacks. Dude, I always thought it was called "Pumpkin Spice" because it had the same spices in it you use for pumpkin pie. I guess that was too confusing for you, though?

Comments

[westrider.livejournal.com]

I have a weird mix, because I have SAD, but I also really suffer from the heat, and so Autumn is my favorite season, because it gets cooler and I like the clouds and rain, but it hasn't yet gotten to the part where the extended lack of sunlight is screwing me up. I'm not sure if we've hit that angle here yet. We hadn't the last time I really saw the sun, but it was close, and we've had several blessedly grey and cool days, so I haven't really seen it in a while.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I like clouds and rain, too! I think we get a good mix here.

Do you use a sun lamp? I've considered one sometimes, just to see if it helps, but I have no idea if it'd work.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

I had one for a while, and it seemed to help a little, but it was incompatible with my cat, so I gave it back to my mom before it got broken. I do use daylight-corrected bulbs in my lamps, and those seem to help, or at least, things got way worse after Eo broke one of them.

I also take a shitload of vitamin D, and now that I actually have anti-depressants, I'm going to talk to my doctor about bumping the dosage up during the winter, see if that's a thing.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

There we go! There was a bit of a cloudbreak this afternoon, and I got up early enough to see it, and the sunlight was totally down past the Autumn angle. Forget the calendar, it's now Autumn :D