Stress

[cat]

I have had a really stressful day.

Not necessarily bad, but certainly stressful. It's going to be a pretty hectic day tomorrow, too.

Would anyone care to impart their knowledge as to how I might ''wind down''?

I am open to suggestions from aromatherapy to yoga.

Any tips?

[johnnyboy]

Have you tried ambient music?

I can only really get it on Winamp, but half-an-hour in a room by yourself with your eyes closed and breathing relaxed with ambient music playing sorts me out.

Like trying to get the brain into a sleepy state without actually going to sleep.

[Bail]

May I recomend DI. (Digitally Imported)

They have a very nice (most of the time) chillout stream, and salsa if you're into that cat. Or maybe some hardcore trance...


http://www.di.fm/mp3/chillout96k.pls

Wack that in winamp, or for a bit more choice, http://www.di.fm scroll down, the dodgy stuff it first. Help's me unwind after work.

[Gavin Scott]

I have had a really stressful day.

Not necessarily bad, but certainly stressful. It's going to be a pretty hectic day tomorrow, too.

Would anyone care to impart their knowledge as to how I might ''wind down''?

I am open to suggestions from aromatherapy to yoga.

Any tips?

Learning yoga before bedtime might prove difficult, so this week'll be a bummber, but I'm sure it would be a good long term tip. I learned a bit. Theres a celebrity story in there so feel free to ask sometime.

Big weekend blowouts reinforce my 'work hard/play hard' ethos, but in truth its the only way I can get through the 'work hard' bit. I'm under a strict 'no shop talk' order and try to forget it all for 48 hours, then back to the wicked stress on a Monday.

I wouldn't recommend it though. Its murder.

[Sput]

Go swimming, or anything good and physical. It really helps to exert yourself and take your mind off things. It'll get rid of pent up energy from anger and whatever too!

[Dr Lobster*]

Big weekend blowouts reinforce my 'work hard/play hard' ethos, but in truth its the only way I can get through the 'work hard' bit. I'm under a strict 'no shop talk' order and try to forget it all for 48 hours, then back to the wicked stress on a Monday.

a man after my own heart. it works for me too, although, the cost is quite astounding and you spend half the week recovering before it all starts again. is fun though!

[Gavin Scott]

a man after my own heart. it works for me too, although, the cost is quite astounding and you spend half the week recovering before it all starts again. is fun though!

And how. On all fronts.

I think there is a direct correlation between how stressful my job is, and how much I need my weekend to be somehow *bigger*.

I should sue, or perhaps get it on expenses.

[Dr Lobster*]

a man after my own heart. it works for me too, although, the cost is quite astounding and you spend half the week recovering before it all starts again. is fun though!

And how. On all fronts.

I think there is a direct correlation between how stressful my job is, and how much I need my weekend to be somehow *bigger*.

I should sue, or perhaps get it on expenses.

i agree with everything you've said there, gavin.

as some of you may know, i now work full time as a door-to-door porkpie salesman.

each day, i arrive at my lab and start to prepare the pies for distribution. my day begins 5am sharp.

once in the lab, i go to the storage hive and retrieve a number of animal body parts, which are subsequently boiled in a substance which desolves the meat, bone and feathers into a paste.

the paste is extracted using a complex filtering system and is left to 'mature' under a parafin heater.

after 30 minutes or so, the meat paste has hardend into a form which is instantly recognisable to any savoury connoisseur worth his or her vinegar.

the pastry, which is manufactured using amimal feed by-products is mixed in a dedicated hand basin next to the communial village urinal. once the dough has hardened, it is brought back to my lab by forklift and hand-moulded into a conventional pie shape around a serving of the meat.

once this is complete, the pie is again heated on a parafin stove where is it packaged in a sophisiticated embroided packet and ready for distribution.

by 11am i start my rounds door-to-door. during a typical day, i will walk anywhere between 3 and 5 miles, not returning home until 9pm.

so, as you can see gavin, whilst i way not be of the correct socal class to hold down a white-collar job, i do work hard. i spend a lot of my time on the road away from home, and as such a need to play hard at the weekend.

[Brad]

I think I'll have that apple for lunch after all...