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Feeling Stuck

It is always mid to late February when the stir crazy bubbles up.  I begin to wonder: What am I doing?  Why are we still living here?  How come everything feels so boring? So meaningless?   I blame it mostly on the weather; sludgy on the outside...equally sludgy on the inside.  I spend time blaming myself too; only boring people are bored.  That's what they say, right?  I travel to the land of I shoulds.  Dr. Seuss talks about this land in Oh!  The Places You'll Go.   Remember that book your Aunt bought you for 8th grade graduation?  To be honest, growing up, I never liked that book.  What do you mean you'll get stuck in the dumps?  In the land of waiting?  I didn't get it.  Life was pretty wide open and forward for my first 30 years.   Now, with two young children of my own and a little Bungalow that I've called home for over seven years, I resonate with our quirky Seussian hero.  I am familiar with slumps, bumps, and dumps.  And I sure don't like living the