Gray

In my momentary excitement this weekend at the thought of an extra hour of sleep due to daylight savings time, I neglected to remember that this change also means the beginning of the season-in-which-there-is-no-daylight, which really just means that by the time I leave work, it feels and looks as though it's 9pm, even if it's just 5:15.  It wasn't until about 3:00pm on Sunday that I began to realize this, when I looked out the window from my perch on the couch (I basically didn't get off the couch all day on Sunday - maybe just once to do the dishes or something) and saw that the sun was remarkably low on the horizon.


While I am excited for November, in that it brings with it a family holiday,warm food and the day after Thanksgiving (= when I can start listening to Christmas music!), it can be kind of depressing at times.  I look forward to the weekends even more, when I don't feel like my at-home part of the day is slipping away from me quite as quickly.  I am definitely a believer in seasonal affective disorder.  


My tactic today?  Christmas decoration planning.  An email in my inbox from Anthropologie got me browsing their new ornament collection, and I was immediately sucked in, picturing the options they'll have on display this winter in the homewares section of the Rockefeller Center store.  I might revisit last year's woodland theme for our Christmas tree this year, as this way I won't have to buy many more decorations, but this time with a few more critters, and maybe some hand-made ornaments.  I'll keep you posted.  In the meantime, I'm sketching pictures of gnomes and trees with my favorite colored pens, and thinking up occasions which warrant the use of the gnome-shaped cookie cutter I bought online over the summer.  This is my Wednesday night.  The most exciting thing to happen to me today?  I got to hang out for an extra 45 minutes or so with my little tutee after our lesson, and watch reruns of a really campy 70s television show.  It was actually pretty excellent.