happy clappy

Regular readers of rashbre central will know that this site normally spins positive and has 'there is fun going forward' as something of a catch phrase. So the recent posts about bad weather and broken down trains are something of an abberation. But of course, there is a reason for this, best expressed with the formula:

( [W + (D-d)] x TQ ) / (M x NA)

This equation is broken down into seven variables: (W) weather, (D) debt, (d) monthly salary, (T) time since Christmas, (Q) time since failed quit attempt, (M) low motivational levels and (NA) the need to take action.

I know you are all recognising this as the familiar depression formula, used to calculate the most depressing day of the year, which is somewhere between Monday 23 january and yesterday. Here in the Northern hemisphere, days are getting longer after 21st December, but the cyclonic weather systems have started to take their customary hold in January, bringing low, dark clouds and this year high winds and then snow to Britian.

Most people have broken their healthy resolutions six to seven days into the new year and many of us have eaten our way through the remaining Christmas chocolates and the content of the fridge.

Not to mention the suction sound from the emptying of the bank account, the prompt arrival of the credit card bill and the long delay since that early pay cheque in December. Why even the TV characters of East Enders are throwing themselves out of first floor windows.

But there's no place for Seasonal Affective Disorder around at rashbre central. We are all singing, dancing and prancing as we realise the rest of the year will be getting better and better.

Out with the bad and in with the good.