YES!! My First Poll here LOL!!!!!!!: What do you do for stress?

All of us have bad days..Some of us have bad weeks, months....
Many people have specific ways of coping with stress or bad times. What do YOU do?

MMMMM Bluebell Ice cream. I haven't had that since I was 8 lol That was the last time I was in TX visiting my grandmother. (btw it hasn't been that long since I've seen her lol she moved to Tenn.)

Kill people online. In a game not in real life. But, I do get the talk to them while I do it. That is my stress reliever and booze(Jack his friends).

Floyd: I'm in Texas too. Nothing personal, but I hope you are not my neighbor lol......

I like stress. It keeps me edgy and working constantly...but it doesn't rule my life either...

Relaxing? Ummmm...sex, a long bath with a glass of wine, and perhaps a good novel.

When I'm stressed I go spend time with my furry critters. Somehow the life of mice and rats is so uncomplicated.

Feed Me
Don't Bug Me
Give me a Girl
Let Me Take Care of My Babies
Don't Eat Me, Eat the Babies First

Simple. Not complex.

I also read and that helps me take my mind off of me.
When work is stressing me out, I just do advance planning and make tons of worksheets and tests (I'm a teacher). The more I create for my teaching, the more in control I feel.

I also have begun to chat with some lovely people on a different website, and sometimes on this website. That helps when I need people who understand what is stressing me out.

I watch movies with hubby, that sometimes helps, but when I'm over-stressed they can't be too poignant.

Before I met hubby, when I was mad and upset at the men of the universe, I used to like to watch action films...all that shoot-em-up gore was good for my bruised female ego.

In times gone by I have also worked on teaching myself how to play the piano. Should get that out and start playing again.

I also write stories. Perhaps sometime I'll post one of my stories here. I have some interesting ones!

I also used to have a lot of fun using photoshop. A friend bought ten site licenses for his company, but because he didn't need all ten, he gave me one, and installed the program onto my computer. When my computer died, however, I'd lost contact with my friend, so my copy of that program died. Now I'm living without my favorite program. I used to create some AMAZING creatures on my computer. Fairies, and Unicorns, Satyrs, and Centaurs and many many other things. That was very fun. Now I just use Photo Deluxe, but it hasn't 1/100th the power of the other program.

The ultimate de-stresser is asking hubby for a hug and hearing his heartbeat and knowing I'm not alone in this big bad 'ol universe.

i crank up the volume or the stereo system.. put on whatever i feel like listening to at the time and piddle around with the reptiles... i can get lost in that for hours on end

I also think that music is great for calming stress; of course different kinds of music for different stresses: I prefer Beethoven for a really black mood, but blues for lesser, grey ones.

Smoke pot and go to a Narcotics Anonymous meeting.
or
Drink Jack Daniels and go to a Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.



Seriously, for some reason handling my snakes tends to be very relaxing and I live close to the desert where I can take them outside for exercise. Being out in the wild sumerged in water relieves stress too. Playing music and singing on guitar or jamming out blues with friends. Of course, all these in combination with drinking Crown Royal and smoking pot works wonders.

[quote=Uncloudy]Smoke pot and go to a Narcotics Anonymous meeting.
or
Drink Jack Daniels and go to a Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
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Oh No Thought Iwas the only one that did that Really I just come to The Boi And watch some people make fools of themselves.. Other then that I go shopping and buy more BOAS