So I sat down at the computer ready to write a post.
Maybe this post, maybe another.
Maybe something so spectacular that all the PR’s in all the lands would send me all the things and a B-Double full of money to swim in.
Who knows, cause I sat down and promptly stared at the blinds for 15 minutes or so before remembering to breathe.
I am taking that shit as a sign {and the preceeding days of panic attacks and headaches and aching neck and shoulders and freaking out at the thought of some poor kid coming to our door dressed in a pathetic excuse of a costume in the hopes for some of the left over sweets from Honeydukes. Oh and dreams of claustrophobia and constipation – say WHAT NOW?} to sit on my arse and watch All the Housewives of All of the Places and eat mint chocolate Drumsticks and wait for the concrete in my limbs to drip out of my nailbeds.
What do you do on a Mental Health Day and will you bring me macarons and hot salty fries if I ask nicely?
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I hate those days.. when there’s nothing you can do to get the anxiety to dissipate. I feel like a big black cloud has taken residence inside my brain, preventing me from thinking clearly and thus tarnishing the ability to find solutions to daily conundrums.
yes! This. Exactly.
mint chocolate Drumsticks Ahhhhhh *drools like Homer* Hope you are feeling better soon. Hate those days.
Lock the door, turn off the phone, get under my ‘poorly blanket’ and depending on the level of threat to my mental health watch back to back episodes of Big Bang Theory or Extreme Makeover Home edition. Wait for the storm to pass, because it always does.
Please no more talk of mint chocolate drumsticks, currently fasting for day surgery and feeling peckish!!!
I think that your particular form of self-medication sounds quite suitable!
hope your surgery went well my lovely… and in honour of you I didn’t eat the drumsticks (read: forgot) but ate a whole pizza for dinner.
Hot salty fries sound good. I have days like this too…I want to lie on the couch and read historical romances and eat. The romance must be historical, mind.
Historical *time travel* romances are the shiznitz. A Knight in Shining Armor, Jude Deveraux. Just sayin’.
That’s been me every day for a while now. Blah. Hope you feel better.
Urgh I know that feeling, grab an indulgent bottle of vino, turn the phone off, make a large platter of fattening comfort food and either crap tv or a trashy novel in the sunshine all the while willing the outside world to bugger off for a day or two.
Hope you are back to full capacity soon
The salty fries would be no longer hot by the time they got from me to you. Otherwise I would. I may just have to eat them myself, and tell you how good they are!
What you doing on Cup Day? I could totally run away from home to bring you hot salty fries. Not sure about the Macaron bit though, no idea where to get them.
sure! I am practicing driving again this weekend so maybe I can meet you half way if you don’t want to come all the way to BumFuck Nowhere…
You know, depending if Boo has the day off school. Cause the public holiday is optional here.
Haven’t had a day like that in a while but normally I’ll sleep as long as possible then watch bad daytime TV and eat whatever I feel like eating until the other half comes home – then have a really big cry, breathe a big,big sigh, have a shower and go back to bed.
Hope you’re feeling better – your remedy sounds much better than mine!!
xx
I love me a good Mental Health Day! Lately they are every Monday while Devil Spawn is at Daycare. I lay around mostly sans pants, eating all the good food and watching all the adult tv.
I have 2 versions of mental health day.
1. Clean like a madwoman.
2. Lie around in a nightie eating crumpets and drinking tea.
With Roboboot, I’m guessing tea and crumpets are the better option. xx
I don’t take mental health days, but I do take physical rest days, when I lay around or sit around reading and watching dvds, eating any damn thing I please and snoozing a lot. I’d bring you macarons, but I don’t have your address. There is a macaron shop not far from where I live. I could send some?
I love taking a Mental Health day to watch TV and eat garbage. It’s totally necessary.
I read Harry Potter, and I’m not just saying that coz of your awesome kick-ass party recently, I really do. It’s the only thing I can completely lose myself in and not have to deal with the bullshit coursing through my brain. In fact, I try to read a Harry Potter book every few months in order to try and ward off any days like you’ve described above.
Currently on Mental Health Day 2. Shit flying all over the place (literally and figuratively – sigh). Yesterday I shopped and spent all of my money (on the plus side I will look FABULOUS in orange for Melbourne Cup Day) and today I have baked cookies and am cleaning the house. Well, attempting to, I’m kind of hiding for a while longer. Have just had THAT phone call with the school about bullying issues, and parent bullies. Gah!
Oh honey! I’d travel through the vortex of the internet lands and pop out through to your laptop to give you hot salty fries and an endless supply of macarons! I give myself Mental Health Days very often, even when I don’t really need them. I hate stress and worries and try to eradicate them from my life by laying in bed and Facebooking and Pinning.
If I had a mint Drumstick in my hand right now, I’d raise it in your honour, then bite a big crunchy chunk out of it as a mark of Bloggy Sister Solidarity.
Hugs xxx
I don’t get mental health days. Needed or otherwise. But I’d totally bring you any food you damn want and watch shitty tv with you and laugh at all the bitchez.
I am having one of those days today
Except I am stuck at work, finding myself watching the clock and praying for FB to keep me entertained
I need a good rain storm to make me feel better
xx
I read blogs like yours of course! And raid the goodie cupboard for vodka and shortbread creams.
oh and cheese twisties, except the exam-taking high schoolers have wiped the local supermarket shelves of them lately.
thats where they all went! Selfish teenage nomming bastards.
They leave the chicken twisties. They don’t do it for me either.
It’s been over a week since you wrote this… I’m ao hoping you’re feeling better. As usual, I’m behind in everyone’s posts and news etc… sorry – but I saw that update on FB last week and felt for you. Anxiety sucks. Mental health days are ESSENTIAL. x
thank you sweetness. I went to the doctor and he gave me some painkillers for my hard as a rock neck and shoulder muscles and some calm the hell down pills.
Sometimes you need a little pharmaceutical help as well, right?
x
Absolutely! Bring those painkillers on!