{"id":2385,"date":"2012-10-16T08:58:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T15:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2012-10-16T09:01:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T16:01:28","slug":"the-grey-creeps-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/the-grey-creeps-in\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grey Creeps in&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having a harder and harder time getting up in the morning.  Every year as the summer winds down I dread the coming wet, grey months.  Here in BC it&#8217;s been so beautiful this fall and we&#8217;ve had this amazing extended summer.  I&#8217;ve been so thankful and yet&#8230;&#8230;the mornings are getting darker and I&#8217;ve been feeling draggier and draggier.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xangelle\/8094075741\/\" title=\"Untitled by Xangelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8334\/8094075741_66754d5b58.jpg?resize=500%2C500\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m upping my Vitamin D and sitting in front of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usa.philips.com\/c\/light-therapy\/golite-blu-plus-rechargeable-hf3332_60\/prd\/\">my happy light<\/a>, but I still feel&#8230;&#8230;..well, it&#8217;s not that I feel sad or even depressed, but I just feel like I have 1,000 lb weights attached to me.<\/p>\n<p>I feel so different in the summer.  I feel so ALIVE!  Even if I&#8217;m tired&#8230;..I can bounce out of bed (<em>Maybe wobble is a more accurate term<\/em>), but now&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to get up.  It takes a tremendous amount of effort to do what I know I have to, and that SUCKS!<\/p>\n<p>Do you struggle with the long, dreary days of fall\/winter\/spring?  I think that the length of our &#8220;grey&#8221; season must have something to do with it.  What do you do to fight off the darkness?  I&#8217;d love to hear your suggestions&#8230;..or even just to know that I&#8217;m not alone in this&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having a harder and harder time getting up in the morning. Every year as the summer winds down I dread the coming wet, grey months. Here in BC it&#8217;s been so beautiful this fall and we&#8217;ve had this amazing extended summer. I&#8217;ve been so thankful and yet&#8230;&#8230;the mornings are getting darker and I&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/the-grey-creeps-in\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Grey Creeps in&#8230;..&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions\/2389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}