Ever since I left college in 2007, my job required me to work outside. Heat and sun, snow and ice, I could take it all.  In an effort to have more financial stability I took a job as an office manager and I sit inside an office all day.  I don't even have as much as a window in said office.  It's pretty rough for me hardly seeing any sunlight during these long winter days. It's dark when I go into work, it's dark at my desk, and then it's dark when I get home.  When I sat down to make a playlist for this month I noticed that the songs tended towards melancholy, such as Broken Bells' Holding on for Life.  I also added some peppier songs that reflect on my New Year's Resolution of caring less on things beyond my control.  Foster the People's Call It What You Want and Man Man's Head On fit my theme well.


  
Photo: from the most excellent tumblr, Vintage Ski.