Off Days

[iSon]

We all have them...

Some days you just know it isn't going to be good...and it turns out just that way.

But perhaps more annoyingly are those days that seem to begin with promise and hope but then fade away giving way to despair. Not quite THAT serious but you get my meaning.

How do you cope with an off day? Do you just switch off and say tomorrow's another day?

That's normally what I do, and the bad feeling soon disappears. But I can't seem to shake this one off. Perhaps I should go to sleep!

[johnnyboy]

A full night's sleep for me if I've had a particularly rough day, after a bit of vodka and coke to calm my brain down.

[cat]

Go to sleep, it's the best way.

I normally go for a bike ride, drag myself to the gym in an effort to sweat it off, shop, read, have a bath, watch episodes of Frasier...

I'm starting to sound like a really sad character. I'll stop.

[Gavin Scott]

My day was also a stinker. I threw such a strop this afternoon when things got a bit much - a moment I regretted when I remembered we had a man in the comms room adjoining my office fiddling with the switchboard. He heard everything. Mortified.

But tonight I managed to arrange a same day pick-up and drop-off of a colleague's friend's passport (from Liverpool to London) thus saving his holiday - and I lent £20 to my mate's flatmate who has come back to the house to see that the electric is off. And I only had £25 in my cashcard account.

I am now feeling smug, yet exhausted. Does it jinx my karma if I *expect* good things to happen in return?

[iSon]

My day was also a stinker. I threw such a strop this afternoon when things got a bit much - a moment I regretted when I remembered we had a man in the comms room adjoining my office fiddling with the switchboard. He heard everything. Mortified.

But tonight I managed to arrange a same day pick-up and drop-off of a colleague's friend's passport (from Liverpool to London) thus saving his holiday - and I lent £20 to my mate's flatmate who has come back to the house to see that the electric is off. And I only had £25 in my cashcard account.

I am now feeling smug, yet exhausted. Does it jinx my karma if I *expect* good things to happen in return?

Either way, you've got the satisfaction you're the modern day Jimmy Saville.

*rattle jewellery* Weeellll now then...

[Dr Lobster*]

to calm down after a long day, go for a long drive at night with a couple of your favourite cd's.

i love driving at night, it's very relaxing and there are so many back roads to get lost in.

[Si-Co]

to calm down after a long day, go for a long drive at night with a couple of your favourite cd's.

i love driving at night, it's very relaxing and there are so many back roads to get lost in.

I agree, Dr L - sometimes I love to just going for a drive, heading nowhere in particular. Lots of nearby places to explore.

[Nick Harvey]

to calm down after a long day, go for a long drive at night

Indeed, "long" being the key word.

Up the M4 to town, round the M25 (the long way) and back home via the M3.

Nothing more relaxing.

[babyben]

I seem to have days recently that go up and down - can have a great daytime and horrid nighttime then a horrid sleep.. or a crap day, great night, good nights sleep..which then reflects on the next day.. crap sleep..crap day.. good night... and so on.

I don't seem to have many ALL crap/good days.

[TVDragon]

Well I've been in a mood since Thursday and I take to arguing with myself in my head to see what happens -- I find arguing with myself brings out the course of action to take that I didn't know on my own before.

I'm not on about voices telling me what to do you understand. I mostly end up deciding to try again at the thing in question, but then again it's a bit scary thinking about what has to happen when we decide actually, it's not worth it this time.

This doesn't make any sense when you write it unfortunately.

[Jamez]

Surprised that no has mentioned having a wank to de-stress.