When I am having a bad day …
17 Responses to "Please finish this sentence:"
1 | andrea
… I dwell on it too much and then self-medicate by raiding the pantry. I really shouldn’t do that.
3 | J.
.. I ask A. to give me a puppet show.. That always makes me feel better. (i’m such a kid sometimes)
5 | Marla
What Lee said!
Then, I find an animal to snorgle. Mine – someone else’s, doesn’t matter. There’s usually some kind of animal within a couple of hundred feet of me, and they know when I come at them what I want.
And then? If that doesn’t work? I watch my former happy place on YouTube:
6 | ChristinaTE
(this is usually work induced so I will answer it from that perspective) I come home, crash on the couch and demand my husband to be responsible for dinner. We normally end up with some take out and a movie of MY choice. I like a good chick flick or comedy to bring me out of my funk. Actually… tonight might be one of those nights. Work’s killing me today!
7 | Ginger
…I want to be left alone. I don’t want to take it out on others and when I am irritated dealing with people usually makes it worse!
I think of how lucky I am to be home with the kids.
10 | kc
the whole day is impossible to be all bad, so I focus on the great moments, they are there!
11 | Jon
Think of a happy song that I like. Walk to my entertainment centre. Find the cd or tape cassette that has that song. Play that song. Dance to that song as if nobody is watching me.
12 | porter
also dwell on it too much, become physically tight, and do my best to hold on until the kids have gone to bed and I can get into a hot bath and soak my problems away with a good book before crashing for the night…..because it’s almost always easier to deal with once I’ve had sleep.
14 | vanessa
January 12th, 2009 at 10:47 am
a sensory depravation tank or swimming under water where no one can get to you is good – 1 pool i visit plays mozart underwater
15 | Jen
I need to go on a long walk. No one else needs to be around my cranky mood. A good long walk refreshes me and puts me in a better frame of mind everytime.
17 | Dee
I dwell, breathe shallow and don’t pay attention to the -present- anywhere near what I should. And I scour my home for chocolate.
What I WISH I could have answered: “I go for a 10k run!”
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