Glimmer of sunshine?

January is rubbish. That is the general vibe I'm picking up from everyone around me at the moment. The way I see it January is a test. Testing our will power to keep up those new lofty new year's resolutions, testing our new shoes in apocalyptic weather, testing many 17 year olds literally as they find their month littered with A level exams. After the excitement of the "Holiday Season" where shiny things are hung from every tree and staircase, it is inevitable that we should fall into the dreary January mood.

This is the point where my sunny optimism kicks in, I am convinced that there are goodies to be found in a month of rain and grey. For starters all the best TV shows return in January, How I Met Your Mother, America's Next Top Model, 90210, and of course my favourite Grey's Anatomy. Whatever you fancy, it's there for the watching, with brand new series brandishing story lines ready to make us gasp and oh-em-gee. So after a hectic day of school/work/revision theres a new episode to collapse in front of with a cup of tea and a chocolate hob-nob/digestive/[insert favourite biccy here].

Another biscuit in the tin of joy this month is that the shortest day is behind us. From now on the light will be lasting longer and longer and longer, before you know it it'll be spring and we'll all be wondering what the fuss was about. Somehow once we hop into spring time we forget how miserable it can be when it gets dark at 4. There is a sense of emerging from a tunnel in January, it feels as if we're one step closer to spring, temperature wise the only way is up (sometimes literally as it could not possibly be any colder.).

Of course I mustn't forget the joys of january sales, exams being over until june (this at the end of the month) and of course enjoying all your spangly new christmas presents. For those of us able to stick to a new years resolution, there is the added bonus of the satisfaction of a resolution well resolved.

Though the world seems gloomy in a non-eventful month of grey, try to find your own glimmer of sunshine and hold on for dear life, it will help you make it through a tricky month. There is always something positive to be found, even if it is as trivial as stonking good telly.