Looking Forward to Spring

I love TCM's 31 Days of Oscar...so many great movies.  We usually record some of them and watch them later.

Today we watched "Harry and Tonto" from 1974.  Art Carney won the Best Actor that year.  It's the story of an elderly man and his pet cat.  It was a great movie, but it made me cry, a lot.

The part where he dances with his girlfriend from way back, and she has Alzheimers so she really doesn't know who he is.  Very poignant, the blank look in Geraldine Fitzgerald's eyes kind of reminds me of my mother.  Then at the end, the cat Tonto dies.  As Harry is at the vet saying goodbye to his friend, I just broke down.  I find myself so close to tears all the time nowadays over the smallest things.    

The weather is getting much better and soon it will be Daylight Savings Time...I can't wait!  One of my goals this year is to walk a lot more outside.  I used to walk all the time but since I started working out with a trainer 4 times a week, I don't do much else.  I think the fresh air would do me good and help me with the bit of depression I'm still feeling over Buster's death.

I asked my husband last night if he misses Buster, and he very honestly said "Not really."  I think he saw B's declining health as a real liability and felt as if B had not really been very engaged with him the last few years.  My first reaction was to be a bit offended, but the bottom line is that B was really MY dog.  He wasn't so much a companion to my husband any more, like he was when he was younger.  B would sleep all day in the back room, and what energy he did have left, he focused it on me when I was home from work.  So the fact that my husband felt less close to him in the last few years is natural, right? No reason to be offended.  But still, that made me sad too.   

On that note, does anyone have any suggestions (non-medication related) for how to deal with mild depression?  I feel as if I am doing everything right with diet and exercise and keeping busy at work.  But I still get overwhelmed with sadness a lot. 

I hope everyone is looking forward to the spring and that it starts "busting out all over" soon!

These are my tulips a few years ago.  

I planted new tulips bulbs in November, so I'm hoping they turn out as well this year.