What's your dirty 'unwind' secret?

[AnqeiicDemise]

After the last few weeks, I'm just emotionally drained. I've been crying a lot and the stress hasn't been able to let me REST (even though I sleep up to 20 hours on my days off! Yikes, totally unhealthy!). Work sucks. Life sucks. I feel inspired to write but when I hit the computer my mind wonders and I end up watching youtube videos.

I don't drink. I don't smoke. Gods know that even if I had friends who could help me score me some magic oregano i'd be too fucking paranoid to take a hit.. Lately, I've gone out of my way to be a good human being and attempted to let my vices lay undisturbed...

Until last night.

I ended up with one caller that got me SO PISSED that I was literally shaking for a good hour and a half after I had finally clocked out of work.


I said 'fuck being a good girl, I'm spoiling myself today'.

...

So I bought me myself a pack of capris (Menthol 120s, sweet release!) and today I said 'fuck it again' and bought myself an eight pack of Guinness.

Nothing relaxes me more than a good cigarette and an ice cold fucking beer.

For the first time in weeks I haven't shed a tear, felt like screaming or just... felt.. like exploding in any way.

And what makes it even better?

The Big Lebowsky.


PS: I won't be smoking again like I once used to and I won't be drinking like a fish either. Its like my 'I shall do this before my gasket finally craps out for good' catharsis.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Well, you know, we all gots our vices. Nothing wrong with that.

I used to get hammered every Friday night, but then, that was when I was working at Kinko's, so, you know.

I had to cut way back on my drinking. Gives me headaches anymore. Which sucks, because I dearly love booze. Particularly tequila. That was my "unwind." Good tequila, lime and salt.

Getting liquored up with my girlfriends and floating around my friend's pool on an air mattress is probably my favorite way to unwind. That's our "liquid lunch."

My mantra while doing that is "I need to send thosh fuckersh a thank you card for laying me off!"

[McGoddess09]

Magic oregano...I like that. May I use this phrase?

As for my unwind vice, I guess a cigarette once in a while does it for me or get my friend Tattoo to get me some booze and have a drink or two.

Honestly, I don't see anything wrong with having that one vice. We are all human.

[lordlundar]

Popping in the most brutal video game I have, throw on some invincible cheat codes and imagine my enemies are the people that piss me off.

(why the codes? Hey, they get to verbally beat on me with no recourse, I should be able to physically beat on them in the same situation)

[taurinejunkie]

Magic oregano and magic water usually work for me. Or, in desperate cases when I can't even wait till I'm home to unwind, I'll buy a cigarette from pretty much any of my CWs whose next break is at the same time as mine. I used to smoke these, but I've officially quit (tossed a near-full pack in the garbage for no specific reason) a while back.

[Sheldonrs]

So I'm the only one who turns to sex with multiple strangers to unwind?

[Dave1982]

I think magic oregano might be the reason why I haven't been getting angry or frustrated at work lately, even with Captain Jellico trying very hard to drive me up the wall, but I don't know what you're talking about.....

[sms001]

So I'm the only one who turns to sex with multiple strangers to unwind?

Sure Sheldonrs, it's just to "unwind."

AnqeiicDemise - pretty much like you. Quiet spot, couple of smokes, couple of beers, a book, I'm good. Haven't really missed the oregano in twenty some years.

[RayvenQ]

I unwind mostly by watching the most over the top film i can get (Postal, Grindhouse, Feast etc etc) failing that i'll pop in postal 2 and play it, nothing like electrocuting a virtual character, watching them wet themselves, chopping off their heads, relieving yourself on it an dkicking it down the road before blasting what's left of the body with a cat silenced shotgun to relieve stress

[Eireann]

I found an interesting way to relieve tension.

I downloaded a game (free! It's free! It really is!) called "Trilby: The Art of Theft". It's a 2-D game where you play a cat burglar who goes into and out of various buildings, stealing items and looking for information without triggering an alarm or being seen by a guard. It really gets the adrenaline going, and works out a lot of aggression.

Come to think of it, I think I'll go play it now!

[RayvenQ]

You ought to try the rest of the games by Yahtzee, http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/games.htm is his site

[AnqeiicDemise]

T-hee, sure, feel free to use the term 'magic oregano'. I labeled it as such when I sprinkled it on top of pizza and consumed it like I would have if it were dried oregano.

I was gone for a week.

Ah, the good ol' teenage years of yore.

shel: if I had been a little more outgoing as a teenager/young adult and weren't married, I would have fun playing the field too. In fact, I turned to my vices because my hub's wasn't in the mood for some satin-sheet rasslin'

[AdminAssistant]

A glass of wine. Failing that, battery-operated devices.

[Jester]

Beer. Beer. And more beer. And then....some beer.

I downloaded a game (free! It's free! It really is!) called "Trilby: The Art of Theft".

And would you happen to have a link to said free downloadable game?

[KymmyKyller]

I like to sit down, smoke a few cigarettes and close my eyes while reading recipes in my head. If that doesn't cut it, magic oregano and Super Mario 3. It is an amazing game.