What's getting you through January

[mamaduckbone]

I'm not a fan of January - trying to shift some Christmas flab, save money and be dry-ish - so I've been trying to find things to do to make it bearable.

This year so far - jigsaws and Ted Lasso. Lovely gentle feel-good telly, and a jigsaw gives my hands something to do to get me off my phone.

Also, planning nice things to look forward to - I've arranged a meet-up and lunch with a good friend at half term and plan to book something nice with ds2 to break up his GCSE mock revision that week too.

What about you? What makes January bearable? More ideas are always good!

Going out with friends. I've booked something every weekend - along the lines of a wander around a gallery, a coffee or a walk.
Lots of baking. I've made a clementine cake, some banana bread and chocolate chip cookies (sorry dieters!)
Balanced that out with lots of soups.

I'm all about the cosy (sorry) heated blanket and reading, or crafting and an audiobook. It's a slow month, I'm skint, but try to lean into it.

Jigsaws too.

Sight of snowdrops, daffodils popping up and longer daylight

have you had your vitamin D levels checked? my doctor suggested it as a "bit out there, but it COULD be low vitamin D" because of my fatigue and joint pain.
they came back VERY low, and I'm now on prescription full RDA vitamin D daily. it's made a HUGE difference to my S.A.D, as well as reduced my physical issues. I still get aches and pains, but it's rare I have to stay in bed for the pain, or end up feeling like I'm going to throw up from back pain walking around the supermarket anymore.
apparently vitamin D deficiency is incredibly common, and it's quite easily treated.

Love this idea! Maybe next year.
And also thinking that there's only a month and a bit until spring, thanks to the poster who said that.

@mamaduckbone - I'm so pleased I did it.

It's been lovely to just know the money is there if I want an additional treat.

I could probably have done £10 a month & it would have been enough as I haven't yet spent £100 - although it's also nice to have a small cushion for bills this month

Traitors
Gladiators
Evenings slowly getting lighter
Knowing that Christmas is a whole year away again
The six month old baby cats we got last month
My birthday next month

running almost every day, (just missed 2 days travelling)
coffee
meeting friends for coffee
gutting the house as soon as everybody has gone out for the day
watching for snowdrops and crocuses
making a sausage and bean stew tomorrow
currently reading a really good book, (My name is Yip)

Watching Green Wing