Hello, fellow disaster! I, personally, am a disaster because I'm asking this on Monday, rather than on Nice Ask day, but... What's something you do to reset when you've kind of reached your limit? Whether with work or social interaction or anything at all - what's your go-to relaxation reset???
Oh no, Nice Ask Day extending out into Nice Ask Week, what a tragedy for all of us. ❤️
Anyway, I completely forgot what my blog title was set to, and I read this message and was like "well I've only interacted directly with ccf a few times so far but I'm impressed by how thoroughly she has the measure of me, honestly" and then I remembered my blog name and now I'm marginally less impressed, sorry.
So there's the short-term answer and the long-term answer, or I guess the "I've reached my limit for right now" answer and the "Okay, I'm fully drowning" limit.
So. I'm a bit people'd out? One of my clients has been pissing me off? My dog's anxiety is playing up and he's been barking at every-fucking-thing all day? I am a Bath Bitch. When I was renting, I always did my level best to make sure I was living somewhere with a bath; once I became a homeowner, it became a requirement—twenty years of severe endometriosis/PCOS goes a long way to hammering home the virtues of a bathtub, but after yeeting my uterus last year they're a pure indulgence. I'm talking bubbles and candles and, like, two hours just soaking in the tub with a book (or fic).
But my major relaxation reset is driving. Properly driving, not city driving. When I'm on my own, I blast the absolute shit out of my driving playlist; when I have passengers, I usually crank it down just enough for conversation. But, yeah. There's a psychological root to this I won't bore y'all with, but driving is the one time I feel truly free and in control of my life (even flying isn't quite the same—probably because I have to concentrate on what I'm doing a little more lmao—although getting up in one of the open cockpit planes is pretty close) and I've definitely been known to just, like... get in the car and jump on the motorway out of town and back again if I'm truly spinning out. I'm gonna be back in the States in a few weeks for the first time since Covid kicked off and I cannot express how deeply I'm looking forward to hitting the open road, even if I will be on the wrong side of the car—the States does motorways much better than we do, and I'm not in the best place mental health-wise at the moment. (You know it's bad when I'm looking forward to being on the 5 again 😂)
