I hate it and it seems to get worse every year too.
I like winter, I like snow, I don’t mind skating in cold weather. January and February are alright, far from my fav but alright, it’s just December that’s the worstest of all months.
As you said, in 3 weeks days are getting longer.
I find Jan/Feb the worst! For me at least in Dec you have the build up to xmas and a bit of a buzz that it’s the end of the year. And then wallop, you’ve Jan/Feb where you’ve no money, the weather is grim and it’s still dark!
January def worst.
There’s just the bleak nothingness, what’s there to look forward to, fucking Valentine’s Day? You’re good.
I like December as I know I’ve got a fortnight’s holiday coming up full of eating and drinking.
in fact yeah, December is rad. putting on my fleeces and big coats and bobble hats, seeing friends that have moved away back to see their families. great stuff.
November & December are dog shit.. go to work in the dark, come home in the dark.. Grim. Jan & Feb can be bleak but at least it’s getting lighter and you know spring is closer.
Yeah, wfh has helped me massively with this. Can at least get out in the middle of the day and see some daylight.
Christmas and the build up to it is what makes December the worst month by far for me.
I hate New Year’s Eve and the forced fun that comes with it too but I always feel so relieved when I wake up on January 1st. Everything finally seems so quiet. No more hysteria. I usually try to go for a quick skate that day, best way to start a new year, no matter how hungover I am.
Fair, I love the xmas period and day but really hate NYE. Usually just try and go round friends (pre pandemic anyway) and have some nice food and play some board games!
Been going early morning bike rides on New Year’s Day for the last several. Novelty of empty roads is a bit lost now though, following lockdown.
I usually do whatever my girlfriend wants us to do (which is usually dinner and drinks at some mates’ or at ours) as she loves all that December shite.
I’d watch movies or skate vids on my own all day, would go to bed early and would go for a solo skate at like 8 or 9 in the morning if I was single.
New Year’s Day is my birthday.
Always shit.
I usually hate my birthday but my girlfriend organized a surprise party for my 40th last month and it was incredible. I can’t remember ever feeling so much love around me. I was high on life for 3 days after that. I hope everyone gets to feel that way once in their life. I felt very lucky. 
Christmas day is my birthday.
Bit of turkey and see the family.
Usually pretty good.
That’s more like it 
Oh man that must’ve sucked so bad growing up. Did you have a summer birthday to make up for it?
No Summer birthday, just had to load up on a Christmas complete and grit me teeth.
I’ve had this stinking cold that’s going around for nearly 2 weeks now. I seemed to get a bit better but today I feel like absolute shit.
Sinuses are blocked, headache, got the shivers… it’s crap.
Good news is that our boy’s nursery asked us all to get PCR tested during the end of last week and they all came back negative.
Stay on testing with that. My stinking cold eventually turned out to be covid after testing daily for weeks. Just had a friend have the same thing - cold for two weeks, testing regularly, eventually got positive
On Friday our nursery was a ghost town. Was a bit weird but took it as a win (got the dream spot for the first time in ages).
Turns out they’d announced via a Facebook post the other day that the blue room group was riddled with covid (staff and kids) and they’ve had no choice but to shut down.
Feel like maybe something as drastic as that should be put out to all parents in an email. We hardly ever look at their fb page.
Luckily my sons group can still go in and I figure if the place is half empty it’s better than ever for him to go there.
Actually, the same thing happened in my sons group a month ago (at least 2 staff members getting it) but it stayed open. I’m 99.99999999999% certain my son passed it on to me and my wife through that but luckily he was totally asymptomatic.
What the fuck do you do if your nursery shuts down for 10 days? Absolutely snookered on all balls.
Good luck. Been through all this a month or so a go and it was shit.