Mental Health Day
Some days you just have to take a mental health day.
The moment I snapped at one of my reviewers, I knew the day was going a lot more wrong than I cared to admit. Things have to be going pretty badly for me to hand out a verbal lashing via the internet. That was the moment that I knew I had to get off the internet, away from the computer and out of the flat.
I love my job, I truly do, but it will drive you bonkers if you don’t get out and be around nature regularly. I’d forgotten to take that into account and let the days drift by as the working stress mounted.
I went to the shops and wandered around a bit, just calming myself down and looking at ‘the pretty, shiny things’. Not really buying anything, just looking. After a while of that, I picked up lunch and headed down the highway to the local lake/park where Mr. JM and I got married.
Talk about stress relief.
Being in the breeze, among the trees, sitting by the lake… I started feeling better right away. There is nothing like nature to help make you feel rejuvenated.
I called up the husband a few hours later and told him I’d meet him at the pub when he got off work(not too long a walk for me and on his direct route home, whereas the park is a pain in the arse for him to get to). Mr. JM, the darling man that he is, knows when I’m just having a bad day and when I’m having a *bad* day. When he rocked up to the pub to pick me up, he came in with brightly coloured flowers in hand to cheer me up.
I am very thankful I took a mental health day, but I’m even more grateful that I have a wonderful husband who understands that I need to take those days sometimes.
March 31st, 2009 at 11:12 pm
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