What to do?

It's the winter doldrums time.  The Christmas decorations are down and put away and now what?  Dark, cold, rainy January, that's what... which always leaves me wondering what to do with my time.  And I feel like my alternatives are becoming less and less appealing. 

My old refrain about there being 'nothing' on TV has reached a new low - HGTV has let me down with its near-constant focus on House Hunters instead of Candace Olsen or Sarah Richardson, my cable company has inexplicably eliminated the Animal channel, I have already memorized every episode of NCIS, and we are finding the local 'Evening Magazine' program to be just too 'fun' and 'bright' and 'cute' to tolerate more than once in a while.  And really, how many Republican candidate debates can one actually attend to?  I realized that if 'Say Yes to the Dress' was the only thing I could tolerate it was time to turn it off.

My options for reading at the moment seem to be with a 'second-in-the-series' book without the 1st, and a bunch of magazines whose singular focus on 'getting organized' makes me more tired than inspired.

Mark spends a lot of time perusing the Internet but I don't really know where to go there.  After so many 'headlines'  reading like 'Chaz Bono is Saving Up for Penis Surgery' and '6 Airports You Don't Want to Get Stuck In' and 'Woman Lives After Bungee Cord Snaps' I get discouraged.  And again, how many times can you read opinions about whether Romney can beat [insert name here.]

So - too early for gardening, too late for shopping, too fat for baking...  What to do?