what is the cure for the winter blues?

You've come to the right place for the answer to this, because my winter blues have been the WORST this year. Absolutely the worst. However, I've started listening to what I need and doing some good things for myself and I'm feeling about a thousand times better. I'd like to share some of them with you!

• Eat better. So freaking obvious, and one of things I find the hardest to do (I'm nearly always eating on the go). I've found that blending up a smoothie or spirulina the night before and putting it in the fridge makes eating properly when getting up ridiculously early and rushing out of the house a hell of a lot easier. Also good are bananas. I've never really like bananas until the last two months or so and now I'm becoming a huge banana fan, yay for super foods! Also, you should probably be drinking less coffee, you know.
• Do more exercise. It's so so hard to do much when the weather turns to shit, and the last thing you feel like doing is going outside. But trust me, you will feel like the QUEEN (or King) OF THE WORLD when you've been for a bicycle ride, or a skate, or a walk along the waterfront, or even after doing a few crunches and push ups in your bedroom. You could maybe dig out that ridiculous Swiss ball that you bought in a fit of enthusiasm that one time. Also I've decided I MUST hoop, I look forward to being crazy mad hoop girl and rocking out while I'm hooping out... waiting to win a TM auction...
• Choose one thing to complete. Sometimes there are just too many things to DO and it feels horrifically overwhelming. All your clothes are dirty or wet or damp, you can't remember the last time you made the bed, and people want things from you CONSTANTLY. Some people find that writing "To Do" lists are good, but sometimes I feel even worse, even more oppressed looking at a sheet of incomplete tasks. I heard the most fabulous idea for beating that feeling of overwhelmed-ness, and that was to choose one thing that you could keep on top of, and deal with that first. Like keeping your bedroom tidy. Or arriving to work on time. Or the dishes. And trust me, feeling on top of just one thing makes it a lot easier to look at everything else and see them as individual and achievable tasks.
• Be kind to yourself. This was one of the things that my therapist said that really stuck with me, and it's one of the best pieces of advice ever, in my opinion. It involves you looking at the situation you're in and asking yourself what YOU really want RIGHT NOW. Say for example you've made an arrangement to go to a party, but it's cold outside and you feel short-tempered and grumpy: in the past I would feel that I'd already made the commitment to go, go to the party, drink too much and have a terrible time and feel even worse about myself. But why? A kindness to myself would have been doing what I needed to do at that time. The point being: listening to yourself and trusting yourself and being kind to yourself is incredibly empowering. And when you're feeling like shit, self-empowerment is an excellent antidote.

So, enough ranting. I want to know how other people are dealing with this crap. I need as much of an arsenal to blast SADD off the face of the planet as I can get right now....

Update The First: suggestions via Facebook!

• Will suggests drinking. I temper this with "in moderation" or maybe "only mulled wine or something exceptionally pretty".
• My lovely cousin-type suggested tea in the garden with her daughter (although they're deep in the heart of summer...), a hug from your man, a trip to a Pacific Island, and a lumie. I'm not sure what this is. If you know, you should do it. Also, she sent me a link to this, which is uber cute: