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Well... maybe a little...
Anyway! We had a "Stress Management" seminar at work today. Of course it didn't occur to them to say, relieve our stress by improving the morale in the office. But at least we had a perky little seminar about it. One of our handy-dandy exercises was to fill out a questionaire, to determine what our main "stressors" are. Guess what my top two were. Go on guess.
Give up?
Number 1: Occupation! Number 2: Finances!
Gee, wasn't that a huge surprise.
Moving on... the other handy-dandy exercise we had to do was to team up in groups of three and make a list of "stress relievers". Here's what my group came up with:
- A- Aerobics: needless to say, this was NOT my suggestion. Stress causer is more like it.
- B- Bath: Our instructor said that her previous group came up with "beer".
- C- Celtic Music: ah yes, now we're into familiar territory. I'd also like to add "cats". :P
- D- Drive in the country
- E- Eating: A good, healthy way to relieve stress, right?
- F- Fantasies: no, not THAT kind of fantasy. Pervs. The faeries and dragons kind.
- G- Gardening
- H- Hugging: aw. How very touchy-feely.
- I- Ice Cream: Do we seem to have a theme going? E for "eating", I for "ice cream". What's next? P for Popcorn?
- J- We didn't have an answer for J at the time, but later, as I contemplated our lack of J-ness, I thought, "of course, Johnny Depp!" Oh yes, I have but to think of Johnny Depp and suddenly I'm less stressed.
- K- Kick boxing: Again, not my idea. But the thought of kicking the snot out of ... well... some people that shall remain nameless... is quite tempting. I thought we should've continued the touchy-feely-ness and went with "kissing," and that would lead nicely into our answers for O and S, but oh well.
- L- Laughing: Also, would like to add "Lord of the Rings," as in the movies.
- M- Music
- N- Nap
- O- The scribe refused to write down what all three of us said for O, but we all said "orgasms". I can't imagine why she wouldn't write that down for a work seminar.
- P- Playing the piano: this actually wasn't my suggestion, but it applies.
- Q- Quiet: of course we could've said P was "peace" and Q was "quiet".
- R- Reading
- S- Again, we had no answer because the scribe for our group wouldn't write down "sex".
- T- Tea, as in, the drinking of.
- U- Our group didn't have an answer for U. The instructor said that the same group that put "beer" for B, but "U bringing me beer" for U.
- V- Vacation
- W- Walking: Definitely not my idea. That would stress me out more, what with my bad knee and all.
- X- We had no answer for X as all we could think of that starts with X is xylophone. Or X-rated movies.
- Y- Yelling, preferably at someone that won't yell back. Like your kids.
- Z- Zoo, as in, the going to. Meh. What else starts with Z that you could think of in a work seminar in 1 minute.