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Random 10-08-2011 10:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Gemme (Post 431521)
Music has a huge influence on me. I will listen to it and either play online or watch something that is super fluffy, so I don't have to think. Thinking is where most of my stress comes from. The last thing I need is to do something that will make me more stressful or sad.

Nods... That's why movies like Zoolander, or Stepbrothers are excellent *I need to stop thinking or I'm going to impload* movies....

Bella~Vita 10-08-2011 11:58 AM
I count my blessings !

Inuus 10-08-2011 12:13 PM
I do something for someone else.

For instance when I'm feeling down in the dumps I try to get over to the local shelter and do what I can to help. Sometimes I just pop in and bring the staff donuts and the animals treats. Sometimes like today I step WAY out of my norm and go to social events like the Animal Blessings today and try to represent the shelter in a positive way. It forces me to be "social" when usually I'm not. It's SO not me because it involves small talk and "shmoozing" which I really dread. This actually does help me to feel better...not sure why exactly, but it does.

RockOn 10-08-2011 12:34 PM
Usually do somethng physical ... and push myself extra hard to wear myself down so as to be very exhausted.
Examples:
- work in the yard
- shoot hoops by myself til I'm about to drop
- call a butch bud with a good arm, arrange to meet and throw the football for a couple of hours
- build something with wood

By the way, I enjoy doing all the things I listed when I am not down. Only difference - I just go at it harder when I am out of sorts.

Seems after I get totally worn out, the "down feeling" has gone away.

msW8ing 10-08-2011 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted by tapu (Post 433806)
Another day, another thing I do when I'm down. Hm, might this indicate that I spend a lot of time feeling down? I'll try not to think about that.

This is something I really have done, not just a joke, but it's not nearly so noble as giving blood.

Not so long ago I had this job that absolutely stifled my little self. It was pure management and nothing at all in the realm of creativity, where I've always fit best.

Well, in the kitchen at this job, where on my floor probably 100 people were, I would hear everyone complain about not having enough flatware available if you took lunch too long after noon.

So I gradually started removing flatware from the kitchen until people were, like, practically screaming about the lack of spoons every day. I'd hear, "People are taking the forks to their desks and then just leaving them there and now the rest of us can't use them!!" and such.

I had a pretty strong collection by about New Years so when we came back after the first, I started insinuating all the flatware back into the kitchen. I even gathered up an old set or two I had at home and added those in.

The whole office seemed happier within a week or two and I felt really happy and entertained, too.


You know... I always thought it a bad idea to make me a manager since, basically, I'm why they need management, but this seems like I ultimately had a large, positive effect on the workplace after all.
AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA omg I can't stop laughing. I'm so twisted I find this too funny. :huhlaugh::rofl:

tonaderspeisung 10-08-2011 05:45 PM
i play the glad game

afixer 10-08-2011 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by tapu (Post 432441)
If I'm just in the house and don't want to go out or do anything special, I just follow my dog around. Fairly closely, like he will me, you know? Wherever he goes, there I am, right behind him. He starts to get nervous pretty quickly and he's, like, looking around at me, left and right. Then his ears go down and he slinks around, trying to shake me.

this reminded me of an old housemate of mine that followed my cat around the entire day not letting her nap because she kept the housemate up all night meowing outside my bedroom to get in. ( i stayed elsewhere that night.)
every time i think about that it, cheers me up.

Dude 10-09-2011 07:02 AM
I hose my duck.

tapu 10-09-2011 07:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Dude (Post 434185)
I hose my duck.


That's the spirit!



(and that's not a metaphor, right?)

msW8ing 10-09-2011 03:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Dude (Post 434185)
I hose my duck.

http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/...estmyducks.jpg

Gemme 10-09-2011 03:34 PM
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Originally Posted by MsW8ing (Post 434452)
Well, it's not just any duck. It's Dude's own duck.

:cheesy:

Okiebug61 10-09-2011 03:36 PM
I usually do something for Red or I go and pick up my nephew and niece. All three of these wonderful people bring me back quickly.

msW8ing 10-09-2011 04:36 PM
Something new I've discovered that really cheers me up is posting on my grown adult childrens FB. Seriously. I know most of their friends and helped raise a lot of them. So I like to post the embarassing stories about all these kids. That starts them heckling and teasing each other in good fun. Cracks me up to read the comments they make to one another. I like to see how many respond comments one of my comments/stories can make them post. My record is 45 comments on one post. They all have fun and it makes me laugh. Memories can be good sometimes.

Dude 10-09-2011 06:49 PM
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Originally Posted by tapu (Post 434186)
That's the spirit!



(and that's not a metaphor, right?)
no metaphor

sometimes I suds him up with a little dawn (when he's stinky)
he enjoys it

deb_U_taunt 10-09-2011 06:52 PM
Take the dogs to the puppy park. It's social for all of us.
I crank up the blues or rockabilly and clean house.
A hot bath with a good book.
Pick up my nieces and go shoot hoops.

tapu 10-09-2011 06:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Dude (Post 434605)
no metaphor

sometimes I suds him up with a little dawn (when he's stinky)
he enjoys it


Those ducks. God love 'em.

Sachita 10-11-2011 12:00 PM
I pick up my granddaughter early from daycare and we play.
Sometimes if I'm in a funk I'll clean my house, organize, light candles, put some flowers about and make my space nice.
Often I sit outside in my meditation chair looking over the farm and concentrating on my connection to the universe.

Daywalker 10-11-2011 12:01 PM
Sometimes, I play Neil.





:praying:

:daywalker:

tapu 10-11-2011 01:40 PM
This time, I can't think of a blessed thing. :(

And I can't give blood again for a week.

Scrappy L'il Southpaw 10-11-2011 08:15 PM
Today I seem to be challenged to remember or find the umph to start any pick me up attempts.I'm going to go to bed, pick up my routine tomorrow and pray it brings a more heart calm day. I'm feeling wrung out.

msW8ing 10-12-2011 01:42 PM
If these don't make you laugh I dunno what will lol
 

kannon 10-12-2011 02:04 PM
this makes me feel better.
 

starryeyes 10-12-2011 02:13 PM
I eat unfortunately, but I am trying to do other things instead like going running, going to the gym, taking my dog on a hike... etc. They usually get my mind off the yucky stuff, and make me feel more confident about myself!

Words 10-12-2011 02:16 PM
Recently? I put Phantom of the Opera on full blast and sing along.

Usually results in my having a good cry and then feeling considerably better.

Words

Daktari 10-12-2011 02:58 PM
After a thoroughly miserable and stressful day the lovely Alice Allarse, knowing it was one of those days for me, suggested cocktails at our current favourite cocktail venue. A couple of magaritas, a lime daiquiri and a good few laughs later I'm not half so miserable. :barmartini:

Estella 10-12-2011 03:18 PM
Reading through these posts I'm beginning to really feel on a fundamental level what a materialistic, bourgeois hussy I really am. I don't sing, write letters, volunteer, or do nice things for others. I shop. Good, old-fashioned retail therapy. In fact, back in the day when I had noooo money, I would promise myself an allowance of $5 per week to spend on anything I wanted. I could splurge and buy candy bars, or I could save it up for a couple of weeks and buy a new lipstick. Fortunately, I'm generally pretty emotionally stable and I don't blow the mortgage money, but the fact is a day with new shoes is a day with just a little more sunshine.

Trey339 10-19-2011 12:08 PM
pickup
 
I do anything strenuous to blow it out,,,run,,,exercise,,,fk,,,,get those good feelin hormones pumpin,,always picks me up

Apocalipstic 10-19-2011 12:10 PM
Go to the BFP Reunion!

Works miracles. :)

Scuba 10-19-2011 07:44 PM
Watch "Finding Nemo" ...

Hollylane 10-19-2011 08:16 PM
I used to sing, and as soon as this cough gets out of my lungs...I will sing again...OFTEN.

T D 10-19-2011 08:37 PM

I usually go for a walk. Works every time ;)

miss entycing 10-27-2011 11:23 AM
days like today, it's really deep, hard, dark and LOUD music.
or i write a new story.
or i steal my dads 67 GTO and drive it reallyyyyyy fast. any road. to anywhere.
or i climb my tail on the bike and hold on tight.
or i hide, i dis-associate completely or i just simply cry in the corner.
it is what it is. it all works for me.
:)

tapu 10-27-2011 11:26 AM
I've served my dog his food in a Tupperware bowl, and put the clear, plastic lid on it. Only once though.

ButchEire 10-27-2011 11:28 AM
Spend a day with my best friend's kids. Puts EVERYTHING in perspective.

sara-bera 10-27-2011 11:33 AM
stand by the ocean

take a walk in the sunshine

listen to happy, bouncy love songs

talk with my best friend

have some tea

watch a silly movie

stretch or do a little yoga (poorly, but I do try)

tapu 10-27-2011 11:40 AM
One time, to distract myself from thinking about my downer, I made a spider out of 100 of those black binder clips with the wire pinchee on each side, you know? Like in offices?

I started with 4 large clips hooked together to make the central mass (body), and then I splayed out eight legs by clipping more clips, first same size and then progressively smaller, to each clip before it.

I didn't put just one clip on the clip before; instead, I clipped one on each of the two pinchees on the previous binder clip. (This is key.) It made, like, long, hairy-looking spider legs. I can make one again and take a picture of it in case you want to make your own.

tapu 10-27-2011 11:52 AM
Hey, is there anybody who can send me a whole bunch of those binder clips in different sizes?

Thanks,
tapu

CockyDude 10-27-2011 11:59 AM
This will come as a surprise
 
But once again I have to say; blondes, bikes, beer.
Yea, I am that base. ;-)

tapu 10-27-2011 02:32 PM
Oh my. Because of my earlier request for binder clips, some here have been concerned that I might be down right now. No, I just wanted to make another spider and I don't know what happened to my binder clips.

Thank you, you-know-who-you-are!

weatherboi 10-27-2011 04:17 PM
i do this
 
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