On My Period
What is it about November?
Just like the bold colorful leaves of fall dry up and turn brown as we approach December, so does my blogging.
I looked back in my archives at the last two Novembers to see what I had written about. I thought maybe that would give me a jump start on a new post. But, like an aging whore’s snooch (I love that word!) on a rainy night, it was pretty empty. I managed to write seven posts in all of last November, and only two the November before that. I’m doing a lot better this year (thank God for Hump Day), but November still isn’t quite doing it for me.
Nothing seems stable in November. It takes most of the month to get your sleep cycle corrected after the change in Daylight Savings Time. The weather can’t decide if it’s fall or winter, sunny or rainy, breezy or bitter. How can I come up with a good post when I can’t figure out what to wear in the Sybil-like climate?
Even my nuts don’t know whether they’re supposed to be sweaty or chilly. So they just end up sort of clammy. (It’s always a little weird to reach down when you’re spending a little time with yourself and it feels like you grabbed a dead guy’s stones.)
Thanksgiving doesn’t help anything either. You’ve finally eaten the last of the bite-sized Baby Ruths leftover from Halloween, and now you’re faced more pumpkin pie than you ever intended (or could) eat. It makes you sluggish just thinking about it.
And since Thanksgiving is really just foreplay for Christmas, it always feels weird that there’s still a little more November left afterwards. It’s like get off the nipples and get on down to December.
November is just one big transition. Sort of a period of adjustment. And I think I can’t write because I’m thrown out of my groove.
Yeah. I’m ready to get down to December.
November 22nd, 2006 at 1:52 am
November always seems like a kind of nesting month for me, a month to prepare for winter… to stack firewood, and put an extra blanket on the bed. The house sort of wraps around me, and I want to cuddle by the fire.
November 22nd, 2006 at 2:06 am
Boy, you are such a December Guy! Me too! LOL.
LT, have a great Thanksgiving. Don’t know who you will be with but definitely enjoy Granny!! Take care. Oh will that darn T-shirt of yours ever make it back to LA?!?!?
November 22nd, 2006 at 6:10 am
Well it’s SAD isn’t it?
Seasonally Affected Disorder. Getting up in the dark, going home in the dark - at least we don’t live in Scandinavia where they have almost no daytime at all. Imagine.
I’ve ordered my Christmas Tree which is always delivered by sturdy young men in kilts…
At least there’s something to look forward to…
November 22nd, 2006 at 8:31 am
November funk. I’ve got an unhealthy dose of it myself; mostly because of unpleasantness that long ago I said ‘goodbye’ to but never quite left behind. Roll on December.
November 22nd, 2006 at 10:04 am
It’s definately SAD (Seasonally Affected Disorder). Even in the metro-Phoenix area where it is 85-degrees with clear blue skies all day, I am affected by SAD. It’s the darkness in the morning and early evening plus the cooler temperatures that sends me inside and in a junk. You just need to find someone to spend the darkness with. I am sure something will come up.
Anyways, enjoy your Thanksgiving. November is almost over.
November 22nd, 2006 at 10:30 am
My husband has SAD too. So, Bewildered, where can I order a Christmas tree delivered by hunks in kilts?
November 22nd, 2006 at 6:02 pm
I have no problem with November, but I DO prefer December. Mostly because that means it’s the start of WINTER - my favorite season!
November 23rd, 2006 at 7:44 am
See? Some of us have SAD some of us just ARE sad…. Take yer pick!
Sue? Get your husband to slip into tartan (in a pizza-delivery boy/plumbercometofixtheleak kinda way..) that’ll cheer him up!
November 23rd, 2006 at 4:21 pm
Happy Turkey Day Big T. Hope it finds you and granny warm and stuffed (full of food).
December 3rd, 2006 at 11:41 pm
I have to agree with you wholeheartedly. (Oh, and don’t feel bad about not blogging constantly…. it makes the posts more meaningful and worth reading!)
Really though, the weather is what makes November the most frustrating (of course, when you live in Ohio like I do, the weather all through the year makes you want to pull out your hair and run screaming through the streets!) And then there’s the wonderful world of retail that forces Christmas in our faces before Halloween is even upon us…
But there are some posixitive parts of November. The fall foilage hits its height (briefly before the rain washes it all away to skeletal remains… wow, I’m so cheerful!) The cooler weather is better for cuddling (provided you’re not dating a psychopath or unemotional robot)… and as you said, there’s Christmas right around the corner.
Well, not that I seem like such an optimist (note the sarcasm) I think I’ll hush and go back in my corner…