How do you de-stress?

fendergirl
Sun, 27 Feb 2011 08:58:04 +0000

I am really stressed with work right now too and everything I have tried seems to not be helping. I have also been really sick all week with a stomach bug and I think how stressed I’ve been is not exactly helping me get over it. All this stress is work related, so it just has been coming back to me every day. I think I just need some me time to try to re-set myself and get back to feeling better. My BF is going to come over and cook me breakfast in bed this morning and do some laundry for me… (have I mentioned how great he is?) I hope I can keep the food down because everything I’ve tried to eat for the past few days didn’t end up well. My house looks like a disaster. I’ve had no energy all week to do dishes or clean or laundry and everything is just thrown about. Being sick always throws me off. Maybe he’ll clean up too (one can hope…). I did exercise a bit this week (I’m trying not to let this bug throw me off my routine completely) and that didn’t really help me feel less stressed it just made me feel more tired and I went right to bed afterward, lol… and this probably sounds silly but getting out a coloring book and crayons always seems to calm me down a bit. I keep them in my desk drawer at work and take them out on lunch break when I am having a bad day. Maybe I just need to revert back to being 5 more often. :)

I hope I can just vegetate for the day and not think or do anything except maybe watch some tv. I took next Friday off work as a “mental health day” with some of the girls that I work with. We are going out for lunch and getting mani pedi’s. If I still feel this crappy tomorrow I may call out and just take a day to recuperate from this bug. I hate calling out sick and went in all five days this past week and it was just awful working through it. I spent a chunk of my work days in the bathroom and a chunk of each evening at home there as well. At least at home you are in private!

on that note, I am crawling back into bed now!