2 posts tagged “stress”
I need to figure out a better way to deal with stress. The following tactics are failing:
1. Drinking coffee. Why would I think this would help?
2. Hot yoga: You can only do this so often, if I tried to raise the office temperature to 100 degrees and started stretching around here I'm pretty sure I would get fired.
3. Tapping my pencil while thinking of other jobs I could get if I get fired. Now that the car industry is taking a downturn I have had to cross "General Motors test driver" off of this list. Which is too bad. Seeing as how I can totally drive, this is the job on my list that I am most qualified for.
4. One of my coworkers likes to log on to cuteoverload.com when she's feeling this way. Sometimes she sends me links to make me feel better and then I get worried that I'm basically looking at animal porn to make myself feel better. What if one day I can't feel better without it.
5. Writing on my blog: Sometimes helps, but more a diversion tactic than anything else.
6. Biting my lips. Satisfying in the moment but ultimately does not help and looks bad which makes me look less cute and therefore, I believe, makes me much more fireable.
So I broke down and bought a pair of yoga shorts for my bikram class, I figure I go enough that I can justify the $30, and they really do make it much easier to do some of the standing poses becuase the fabric doesn't bunch up or get snag anywhere like the looser shorts do...