My mind is fried today. Seriously fried. I am a walking pile of incoherent babbling on legs.
My to-do list for this week looks like it hasn’t even been touched and I am on mental overload.
So here is my Top Ten List of things I do to de-stress, in no particular order:
- Bubble Bath – unfortunately this also seems to end up being “conference with Mommy” time. I guess they figured out that I am a captive audience when in the tub.
- Make Bread Dough – Nothing beats a good dough pounding to get rid of frustration. Half the time I don’t even bake it. It winds up in the freezer.
- Meat pounding- When I can’t bake bread, sometimes making chicken breasts into paper thin cutlets will get the ARRRRG out.
- Dance – Sometimes it helps to crank the stereo on high and make a fool out of myself. I also count this as exercise.
- Weed the garden – It needs it, badly. And I find that I can take my frustrations out on weeds for 10 minutes and feel the stress melt away. I just pretend I am ripping someone’s head off. (did I say that out loud?)
- Organize the closets- You can judged my stress level by how clean my closets are. That is pretty sad.
- Play a “war” game on facebook – At the moment I occasionally play Drinking Wars. Mafia Wars got to hectic/dramatic, as if you were really shooting THEM!
- Build something – It doesn;t even really have to be anything, even hammering nails into a piece of scrapwood dos the trick.
- Take a bike ride – I don;t do this often anymore because The Girl has commandeered my bike and my bike seat is as hard as a rock.
- When all else fails.. Wine. This is where I am now, enough said.
What do you do to re leave stress and shake the foggies out?
If you have a top ten post, let me know and I will link it here.
