What do you do to survive winter?

Where do you live RainbowShell?

Perhaps try this:

http://highexistence.com/the-wim-hof-method-revealed-how-to-consciously-control-your-immune-system/

I can empathise. Brutally cold here in Northampton, UK. Currently 4C (39F). Dont know how Im going to survive. I miss the summer.

 

So there a 4 things that help with winter isolation. I know, I lived somewhere similar and we also got a full whack of winter.

Schedule - Wake up early if need be to make the most of the existing hours of sunlight. If your likely as far north as you are, you only get around 4 to 5 hours per day, and being outside during those hours can help with the absorbing of sunlight. Also get a luminary or SAD lamp and have that in your workspace in the house, it artificially simulates sunlight.

Supplements - Take vitamin D, and also if you can get it a high grade coenzyme q10, it really does help with natural energy flow.

Be Social - Find an excuse to hang out with people, whether its hunting or playing hockey, or doing something else like a pen and paper D&D game, find an excuse to get people and yourself out of the house and hang out. Humans are social primates, first and foremost, we crave social interaction, it staves off depression.

Activity - Find a new hobby or skill that requires you to be up and about the house. Plan a garden for the new year and start accumulating or starting seeds. Look into learning woodworking skills. Go fur trapping or hunting. Learn to make soap. Anything that keeps your mind active and you moving around the house during the winter is a great idea. Download some good fiction or educational audiobooks and play them in the background as you work, you get a double whammy that way.
Also go outside. When it isn't absolutely freezing, try and make yourself go for a walk for an hour a day, the activity really does make a difference in moods. Also tie it into a social event, go around someones place and have coffee, or volunteer to help them with a project.

 

Look up a few youtubers you might be interested in.

Walter Sorrell - Blademaking and does a lot of blacksmith forging.
Backyard Bowyer - Blademaking and bow making.
Wooded Beardsman - Lives in Ontario but does a lot of cool out doors stuff, might give you some ideas for winter stuff to do.

 

Maybe you should start looking for some dragonglass

 

Other than just driving around to stay out of the house when my sister goes on a emotional rampage around the house, watching skateboarding videos and studying in the university library. There's also the occasional basement skateboarding, which is just me rolling around on my skateboard in my basement when no one is in the house. I would practice some tricks, but I my knee is still injured. Trying to find some kind of creative project to keep me busy other than just playing video games and reading. I haven't made any drawings because of the stupid drama my sister keeps trying to start for no reason. Hopefully I remember to bring my sketchbook with me the next time she flips out.

 

I would exercise and read a lot. I would also take to learning how to draw. Bathing would be quite nice, too, if the tub were sizeable and had enough hot water supply.

 

Other than the Canadian flag and it describes me perfectly.

The Others are coming. I would prefer Valyrian steel to dragonglass.