hibernating

Animals have the right idea when it comes to winter weather - sleep through it. No seasonal affective disorder for them, just a nice, extremely long nap, which also results in a lot of weight loss.

And yet we humans just don't get it, and we end up with seasonal affective disorder and colds and flu and shoveling out from snowstorms and accidents on icy roads and plane delays due to bad weather, all of which might be avoided if we just kept a low profile all winter.

Personally, my hibernation instinct has already kicked in. Piles of blankets have been washed, and bedtime seems to be earlier and earlier every week. Most weekday evenings, if I've nothing else planned, I come home from work and shed the work clothes in a trail from front door to bedroom in exchange for pajamas and climb into bed with the pets, a pile of books, a pot of tea and a snack, and possibly a DVD or three, and I don't get out of bed until the alarm goes off the next morning.

Actually, I don't get out of bed until long after the alarm goes off, and subsequently, I get into work later and later. Taking the winter off would alleviate that as well, right?

My watercolor teacher does the migration thing and goes to Florida for the winter to teach all the retired folks how to paint, and then she comes back up here for spring and summer. She's got the right idea.