Give Me Something To Look Forward To

So it's what, January twenty-something today? Yeah, and it feels like it too. It feels like January twenty-something and I feel like a January twenty-something. Found this article on the web that helps to expain it...maybe. I don't have the New Year's Resolution thing that it talks about. I know this because I didn't make one; I'll fail enough times without consciously adding another way to do so.

So maybe it's the weather. Or not. It has been unseasonably warm since Novermber, and I don't mind it when it is unseasonably cold either. Those are the times when you can remind yourself that you're really only one layer of clothing away from freezing to death. Not that this is a pleasant thought, but it keeps things in perspective at least. I think that the key sentence is this: "People feel bleak when they have nothing planned." I can't help but remember that last year at this time I was getting ready for this:Mosquito bitten legs and bad farmer-tan aside, it looks pretty good from where I'm sitting right now. And then there was this:

And, like magic, this mood becomes a bit more understandable. The only question now is what to do. I'll think about it, taunted by the fact that this guy, apparently, has long since figured out for himself what I cannot.