Heating Up the Winter... with Hotblooded!

So, it's winter here.  *sigh*  Absolutely, positively my least favorite time of year. 


This is the view out of my office window:
 




And this is the view of our backyard:





Oh, sure, sometimes it's pretty.  The snow on the evergreens is nice.  Having the fireplace on and drinking cocoa and all of that.  Yeah, yeah.  

I still find myself dreading the winter.  It's cold and it's dark. 

A mid-winter trip to Hawaii is out this year, which would have s...