SAD stands for Seasonal Affective Disorder. The make special lights that give off multi-colored light like the sun. You have to get one with so many lumens to make it work. They are pretty expensive. They make ones that can make the sun rise earlier. Like you set it like an alarm so you are waking up in light instead of icky winter dark.

This is an article I googled about Seasonal A(?) Disorder and light therapy.
It sounds good, but I don't know about spending 1/2 hour every day.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/sea...sorder/MH00023

Of course, eBay has them at all kinds of prices.

Here in Ohio we have about 2 inches of snow on the ground. It's COLD!!! I can't ever seen to get warm.

I really hate how long the winters are here. I'm ready for spring again!

It got down to 31 here this morning and my heating system didn't work. First time I tried it since it was put in this summer. The temp in the house was 66 but a damp cold.
Suppose to be down there again tonight. They have been working on it for 2 hours.

It's 41 here this morning, and supposed to get up to 80 today. Yesterday was absolutely beautiful. Calm. The bay was so pretty. The water had very few ripples on it. Looked almost like glass. Definitely a day to get out of the office. A customer and I needed to visit about a valve, and we joked about me running to Walmart and grabbing a couple of lawn chairs and us meeting on the beach. We did our talking on the phone however. It was a nice thought for a few minutes there. Did get out and ride across the causeway bridge and take some customers out to lunch, so got to be out for a bit and enjoy the day. It felt more like one of those awesome warm spring days instead of fall.

Janet, wish you could be here to enjoy this with us!!!!!

It is still getting dark too early though. Oh where is daylight savings time????

It is going to get into the teens tonight and tomorrow night....brrrr!!! I need to move!!!!

Judy...that article was very interesting. Now I kind of know why I am drawn during the day to sit staring out our big picture window. I can feel the sun (when it's shining) on my face and it lifts my spirits. I just never really associated it with light therapy.

I really loved Texas when I was there many years ago. I would like the winters....but not the summers...then it's too hot....LOLOL.

Burr it's 28 here right now and it's starting to snow. We are suppose to get 1 to 2 inches of the white stuff tonight and tomorrow. I love it when I can stay home and watch it from my living room window but to be out and driving in it really bites.

We're having a cold spell for the next few days. It snowed lightly all day. It was beautiful! It didn't stick.

I got studded tires for the snow. I never used them before.

It got up in the 70's today, a cold front coming and we are under a tornado watch, it is dark outside at 1:30.

Crazy weather! It's only in the 60s here today, 70, tomorrow and then 78 on Tuesday. TOO HOT for December!!! It's supposed to cool off on Thurday, I think.

Our tornado watch has been lifted. Thank God.

Glad to hear that!!!

Well, we are in the deep freeze (for us) in Texas. Didn't get out of the 30's yesterday and won't today either. The wind was fierce yesterday and it was soooo cold!!! Today is just as cold, but no wind so it is tolerable.

Of course it is supposed to be 70 by Sat/Sun! :rolleyes:

Our temps were only in the teens yesterday and today looks like the same. We had a light layer of snow last night but it wasn't enough to make things look pretty. Temps in the 70's would be wonderful!!!

Okay, Janet, enough is enough!!!!! Please stop sending your cold weather down here to us!!!!! You can just keep it!! I know you are just trying to be generous, but it was 32 this morning when I left the house. I'm at my office today on the bay, and the damp cold is sooooo penetrating here. My feet are cold under my desk.

You can just keep this weather!!!!

By the way, if I remember from "An Inconvenient Truth", unseasonably cold weather is actually a side affect of the global warming theory. I know it sounds nuts, but if you check the information presented in the documentary, I'm pretty sure they explained why this is the case.