IT'S here again – Blue Monday, officially the gloomiest, most depressing date of the year.
You were paid in December ready for Christmas, so you are skint! Your new year diet regime has now slipped and you are vacuuming up food likes there's no tomorrow!
What started off a "dry" January now has you sipping on a large Pinot, and giving up the cigarettes lasted a few weeks and you are back puffing away... welcome all to 2013!
Hopefully, you are not experiencing all of the above, but boffins suggest that the third Monday of the new year is when all best intentions for that new start go flying out of the window.
In an attempt to keep you smiling throughout Blue Monday and beyond, the Grimsby Telegraph and www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk is launching a survey about happiness and how it links with where you live.
We want to know what you like most and least about your neighbourhood, how clean and tidy it is, and whether you think it has got better or worse in the past 10 years.
We also want to examine your views on employment opportunities, crime and safety, and where you aspire to move – if at all – to.
The results will reveal a picture of your life here in North East Lincolnshire.
A quick straw poll from people working in the Grimsby Telegraph newsroom revealed that spending time in our picturesque countryside, visiting Cleethorpes seafront and sampling excellent local produce are important about where we live.
But we want a wider picture.
It's not the first time that the population's happiness has been analysed. Prime Minister David Cameron ordered an official inquiry to discover whether we are happy as a nation – which concluded that most of us are.
It found that three-quarters of us place ourselves at seven out of ten or higher on a scale of wellbeing.
It also revealed that while divorcees and the unemployed are often considered more vulnerable to depression and despair, most actually consider themselves as happy as everyone else.
So despite the gloomy economic developments, rising unemployment and riots that took place during that time, there was no change in the responses given.
It was the first step in a long-term £2-million project towards measuring national wellbeing and helping future governments base their policies on what makes voters happy.
So why not have your say on what makes you happy right here in your home town? The results will be published in the Grimsby Telegraph.
You can complete the survey below:
