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I was reading my Facebook wall the other day and noticed that one of my friends mentioned that they recently purchased some abdominal exercise gizmo. I won’t name names to embarrass anyone but my first reaction was AAAaaaarGGHhhhhhhh!

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For a girl who hates winter as much as I do, moving to the Land of Eternal Winter (a.k.a. Minnesota, The State That Might As Well Be Canada) may not have been the best idea. While I love snow and adore Christmas, the combination of super-cold temps and very short days have a drastic effect on my mood. My problem first started in Seattle where while it doesn’t have the Dementor’s Kiss-esque cold that Minnesota does, it is far enough north to have precious few daytime hours – hours that are besmirched by constant cloud cover. Come October, I’d feel the anxiety begin to ramp up every day around dusk and an inexplicable irritation with every member of my household. November brought zombie-eyed apathy and a fierce desire to sit in the one warm spot in our house and not move, causing me to neglect basic necessities like laundry and keeping a kid from shoving red craft balls up his nose that could only be removed by a doctor with a special tool (he wanted to be Rudolph, see). By December, unless the kids need something I’m pretty much living full-time in front of said heating vent and craving simple carbs. And by January I’m fully and officially depressed. I have SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), a depressive state brought on by the lack of light in the wintertime that afflicts millions of people worldwide.

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