It's been a while since my last post and while not a lot has happened... it feels like there's been a lot more going on. A lot of you know that I've struggled with depression in the past... well it seems as though the excessive amounts of darkness aren't helping with that nasty little friend. About a week ago now, R was at his wit's end and pretty much forced me to reach out for help. Am I ever glad he did. More frequent phone calls home, what feels like a million vitamins later and some friendly questions for the people I deal with on a daily basis are helping, as will the sun lamp that mum's having shipped here. As always, baking and cooking really do seem to help so I've been making a point to play in the kitchen at least twice a week.
Darkness is now the norm here. I'm lucky enough to have a job that allows me to walk home during the brief period of daylight, but most aren't nearly so fortunate. R walks to and from work in the dark- he sees the sunshine on his lunch hours and on the weekends. You wouldn't think it'd be such a huge deal but to put this in perspective... After I did a quick jaunt to work this morning I was walking home and watching the sunrise. At 9:35am. Sunset was a mere 5 hours and 43 minutes later, yeah, at 3:18pm. Tomorrow, our day will be roughly 4 minutes shorter than it was today.
Darkness is now the norm here. I'm lucky enough to have a job that allows me to walk home during the brief period of daylight, but most aren't nearly so fortunate. R walks to and from work in the dark- he sees the sunshine on his lunch hours and on the weekends. You wouldn't think it'd be such a huge deal but to put this in perspective... After I did a quick jaunt to work this morning I was walking home and watching the sunrise. At 9:35am. Sunset was a mere 5 hours and 43 minutes later, yeah, at 3:18pm. Tomorrow, our day will be roughly 4 minutes shorter than it was today.