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Posted on August 16, 2022August 16, 2022 by dianedenmark

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Do you get seasonal depression? How do you deal with it? ❄️🍁🇩🇰 When I first moved to Scandinavia over 22 years ago, the winter blues hit me hard 😭 The darkness descended over me like a blanket and was hard to shake off. Since then, I’ve learned a lot and no longer suffer from SAD (seasonal affective disorder)! 👏🤩 In today’s YouTube video, I’m sharing the simple mental health and exercise plan I use to avoid the seasonal blues! Bonus: my plan is brimming with hygge! 😄💖🇩🇰🏃‍♀️💨🎬 Anyone else love Spock? 🖖😍 Happy Sunday from Copenhagen where it's now pouring with rain and pitch black but my Evening Routine is done, woo hoo! 💪🥳🇩🇰 Been a lovely day ☀️🏃‍♀️💨 Did my usual Sunday morning run, today in our local park (they use the castle for the Prime Minister's summer residence in the TV series "Borgen" 🎬🇩🇰) Like Spock, I always feel extra good when I've pushed through and done my Routines at the weekend 🖖🤩 They only take a few minutes, there's no backlog come Monday morning and I get more time for ME! Logical, Captain! 👏🤩 ✅️✅️✅️ Kitchen closed, fresh teatowel and handtowel out, coffeemaker and breakfast table set up, outfit ready for tomorrow ⭐️ Live Long and Prosper! 🖖🖖🖖😁💖 6️⃣0️⃣ 🎂 Anyone celebrating a birthday today?! 😍🇩🇰 A Big Bluetit Birthday! 🏊‍♀️ Happy birthday to my lovely friend Angela! Can you believe she is 60?? Winterbathing is the source of youth! 😄🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️💙🎂💙 I got my Morning Routine done early (which today included baking a batch of rolls and remembering the balloons, candles, hot tea champagne glasses, etc, etc) 😅🥂🍾🥂🫖🎈🎈 And what a delicious spread we had! 🤩 Angela brought Victoria sponge, Gráinne brought Barmbrack, I brought warm rolls, Stefanie brought biscuits, Cecilie brought brownies, Bettina brought waffles. All homemade 😋🍪🥖🧇🥮🍰 What a cebration! Love these ladies! 💙💙💙 👋🤩 Cheers if you are celebrating today! 🥂🍰 6️⃣0️⃣ Ready for the weekend?! ⚠️ Quick reminder! 👋😄 I know you're all raring to get the weekend started but let's take a few minutes to tie up the week with a big bow! 🎀 🥳 It's Flylady Friday! Tidy your car/fill up with petrol ⛽️ 🚗 (we mainly use our bikes 🇩🇰🚲 pump up your bike tyres, clean out your bike basket, check your lights 🔦🚲🚲🚲) Spend 5 minutes tidying your handbag, schoolbags, gym bags, baby's pram or stroller 🛍🎒🧳 I pull everything out of my handbag 👜 recharge my headset 🎧 remove receipts and snotty hankies. And put clean towels in my swimming bag so I'm set up and ready to go next time 😃🏊‍♀️💦 Today I'm swapping my white summer handbag for my navy blue winter handbag 🍁🍁🍁 The blue bag was originally black but I repainted it several years ago with leather paint 🖌 Cleaning out my white handbag and will give it a thin coat of white leather paint (like I did with my Doc Martens). Plus it's Date Night! 😍 Whatever you fancy...going out or staying in? Hubby and I love staying home on a Friday night and I've prepared our usual hygge basket with some of our favourite snacks (a hygge Friday tradition I started when our kids were small) 🇩🇰🍫🍫🍫🧺 (The bag of Pollys is so big that I only ate half last weekend 😅) Anyone using a snack basket? Keep it hygge out there and have a fabulous Friday! 👋😃💖🇩🇰🕯 Are you dressed yet? 💙 Raaaaspberries! 😄💙 Woo hoo, we made it to the end of another week - happy Friday from intermittently sunny Copenhagen! 👏😃 Car/bike/handbag/Date Night in Flylady Land (more on that in another post). Morning Routine was done bright and early and having a productive day (good playlist 🎹🎸🥁 while I work in my office). 🍁🌙🏊‍♂️ Do you like swimming in the sea at night? Swimming in the dark? Or perhaps you're celebrating the Equinox today? 😃 Equinox swim with the Copenhagen Bluetits Chill Swimmers! A small - but dedicated- group tonight! 😅Gráinne, Heather, Erika and me! 🍁🌊 Heather brought still-warm-from-the-oven apple and cinnamon cake 🍏🥮 Yum! 😋 And I brought a bottle of bramble gin 🍇🍸🍸🍸🍸👏😄 Skål! 🇩🇰 Sea temp 15c/59f, air 10c/50f 🌊🌊🌊 Love these ladies! 💙💙💙😊 🦜🦜 What's on your grocery list this week? 🛒🥕🧀 Happy Thursday from (sunny, again!) Copenhagen! 👋😁🇩🇰 It's Errand Day in Flylady Land but I did mine yesterday because that fit better with my work this week 🛒🛒🛒 Not much to buy on my grocery list (we're emptying the freezer in our basement) just milk etc 🐄🥛 Plus millet seed for our lovebirds, Tweet and Sparky! 🤩🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 It's the equivalent of cat nip for birds! 😂 But I've also been to the library to collect reserved books 📚 And bought a few special bits and bobs (Danish flags, candles, etc) from Søstrene Grene (a Danish store which sells interior decor, gifts, stationery, etc) for some special celebrations coming up 🥳🇩🇰🕯 Make a list before you head out for Errands: supermarket, pharmacy, greengrocer, post office, ironmonger/hardware store, library. Save time, money and effort! 👏🤩 And remember some treats for your pets! 🦜🐈🐶🐊🦄🐯🦓🦘😁 Good day, sunshine! 😁☀️☀️☀️🇩🇰 Yesterday's morning skinnydip seaswim with my Besties, Vibeke and Helene (Vibeke didn't dip, her arm is broken) 🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️ and, fancy that, we bumped into my friend Sue, woo hoo 👏🤩💦 Hot tea in our bone china teacups ☕️🫖 Every day is the special occasion, especially when you bump into good friends! 😄 Sea 15c/59ff, air 8c/46f 🌊🌊🇩🇰 So far, so good! 👏😁 Hope all going well your end!

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