Sometimes life just seems too much. Too many obligations, and not enough time. Too much work, not enough fun. What do you do then? What works best to get you back on track?
Patience, Please
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Love life stress. l think about how good it would be to scream without actually doing it.
1st post!
Gah I need help with this. Or, well, not necessarily help, but I do stress a lot. I always stress about school, college, grades, etc.
I don’t really know what I do to deal with it, but sometimes just taking a deep breath and telling yourself to stop stressing really helps a lot.
Music is probably the thing that has saved me. When I know I’m going to spend too much time doing homework when I know I want to sleep, I just crank up some Fall Out Boy or something similar. Or just go to sleep anyways. But the second option usually leads to more stress.
3- In case you can’t tell, I actually end up taking the second option too often.
I would love to be able to sleep as a way of dealing with stress. But the problem is — when I’m stressed, I can’t sleep because I’m to stressed to sleep. Which creates a problem.
I think I have done a lot better at dealing with stress this year than in the past, though. I’ve sort of learned that stress doesn’t make anything better, so I have done everything to the best of my ability to not let myself stress. I think one thing that helped was just learning how to say “it doesn’t matter,” to a school assignment or project. And with a more open mind — one that was less deadline-oriented — it was easier to get things done and I ended up learning a lot more, and doing a better job.
Loud music doesn’t work for me — but then, I’m three or four times as old as most of you and have a very different metabolism. Still, for what it’s worth, I find a little time out does the trick sometimes. Fifteen minutes with my hands over my eyes or the lights out, just letting go of my thoughts and breathing. Or a half-hour catnap — even a little sleep can work wonders when you’re really tired, as most of you probably are. (I keep a kitchen timer on my desk to make sure I don’t overdo it when I have things to finish.)
Music is great, and so is reading and choklit. Stretching is too, actually, or some kind of exercise, like crunches. I do about a hundred every night (true, not the best for relaxation before sleeping). Still, stress is kind of an issue for me, though I think I’m getting better.
6- That’s my problem with sleeping. I don’t set an alarm to wake me up in a reasonable time. And sometimes, if I do, I just keep resetting it for a later time. Once I got to sleep, I don’t want to get up.
And as for the music, I like singing along. So I’ll be sitting on my bed, doing math homework, and singing along with the CD. I only really get stressed when I think about how much I have to do, and not when I’m actually working.
Oh, Lord. I hope this works.
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I usually stress because of too many things to do… prioritizing really helps in those situations.
My mother always liked bubble baths. They never really appealed to me after the age of five or so, but hot non-bubble baths are good stress-reducers just before bed.
I’ve never really liked bubble baths. I’ve only taken one, but still.
Loud music probably makes me more stressed, because I absolutely hate it. But I do like very soft classical, and something orderly like Bach or Mozart usually helps. I have a “homework” playlist that has all sorts of music like that, which is mostly just Mozart and Bach, but also Handel’s Water Music Suite.
The more I think about it, the more stress-relieving things are coming to me. Last year when I was stressed I would sometimes lie on my back on the floor with my eyes closed. Lying on the floor seemed to energize me, maybe for the few minutes of rest, or even just opening up your ribcage, I guess. A big glass of water helps, too.
Well, this thread is certainly applicable to me. Let’s see. When am I not stressed? I ca’t really think of a time. Today I probably came the closet I have been to being relaxed, I was reading and eating choklit and doing nothing productive (snow day, had my homework done yesterday). But even then I am till thinking about school, hockey, everything. Here’s some thoughts going through my mind pretty much all the time these days that stress me out:
– I am not going to get into AP calc. I got a B+ in the class for first semester and not an A, I’m not going to get in. That would be the year I won’t be in the highest math class available, even though I’m already ahead. I won’t be in the same math class as L for the first time since 3rd grade. Ohgodohgodohgod if ony I’d gotten 3%b higher… this has been pushing me over the very thin knife edge for the past two days, sent me to tears.
– Don’t understand first two sections of Chapter 5 in math, get 5.3 fine that bit’s insanely easy for me but .1 and .2 are giving me trouble, have to figure out those
– Crap I have a chem test I need to study for on monday but I don’t have any time… it’s all going to be factor label problems and I can’t do those his way, and if I do them my way instead he doesn’t give me any credit and I’ll fail the test, craaaap
– I can’t be in school friday, have to get homework, have to find way to learn math I’ll be missing and teach it to myself in the car, have to study chem on car ride too
– We are driving to Michigan friday for hockey playoffs, have to be focused for that, remember plays, remember what to do when I get the puck, don’t panic, memorize game schedule so we’re not late
– Drivers ed mondays/wednesdays instead of lunch, have to find time(ha) to go driving even though I don’t enjoy it or DE teacher will notice and lecture me again
– Hockey playoffs for the second team I’m on (high school team, though ironically not my HS) are coming too, figure out when those games are can’t miss them, remember to email other team’s coach that I might be missing practice for those games
– Flute lessons on fridays instead of lunch, solo&ensamble coming up soon I reallyreally need to practice, I also need to practice for band because I haven’t had time to in a month and I’m falling behind
– Decide if I should just give up eating lunch entirely and just go to band room and practice so I don’t fall behind
– Argue with school councilors to make sure I can take all the classes I need to next year because several juniors I know weren’t able to take physics this year. I already did this but now since I’m not going to make it into AP calc I have to do it again and make sure I can take all my classes with just honors calc… ahg
– MB is not the same and I know I am a nostalgic freak but still
– nonexistent love life ugh I wish this wasn’t bothering me as it is pretty much because I have chosen for it to be nonexistant but still
– Mom doesn’t understand that I want to take AP classes, she keeps asking “Isn’t honors good enough? You don’t even like history, why do you want to take AP? ANd so what that you didn’t get into AP calc honors is good enough.” Not it is not for me I really need to be in high classes, for college, and if I am and pass the AP test I won’t even have to take them in college so all the better
– I know I am forgetting things and I am freaking out because what if they are important???
So if anyone has a really good way to remove stress I really need it right now. I basically have mini-panic attacks (seriously, have trouble breathing and can’t do anything for a minute until I force myself to calm down slightly, and then I can feel it off a ways waiting to come back) and cry every other day and am generally a complete mess.
the IBO gives me too much work, too much work leads to stress. what, oh what, oh what can an oxlin do?
an oxlin… listens to music or reads and alternates that with the real work.
rant time!
Stuff that is stressing Oxlin:
IB papers, general homework that suddenly shows up, the fact my parents are making me get a job before I can sign up for my writing class which might fill up, the con I want to go to and signing up for that, driving which i still can’t do because the place I took driver’s ed went out of business and my parents don’t want to pay twice (which makes sense), that the person I like isn’t sure if they like me though they know this, that I can’t seem to tell my school friends anything anymore. we used to be able to *talk* and now we don’t….
but! awesome things in Oxlin’s life:
that same person I like continues to be awesome anyways, the show we’re doing in my theatre class is amazing (we wrote it ourselves), that I get to go on a field trip with that same theatre class
After writing about chocolate over on the Muse Academy RPG thread, I went down to the kitchen and had a piece of Dove chocolate — the kind that comes wrapped in red foil with a fortune-cookie-like message printed on the inside. The message said
It feels good.
That must be relevant to stress reduction somehow.
maybe getting someone to truly rub/massage your back properly would work, Jadestone! I hope you become less stressed soon!
but it does seem like a massage would be a good stress reliever.
When I’m stressed, I go into my room, sit down at my desk, fiddle with my iPod, plug it into my stereo, turn the Les Misérables 10th anniversary soundtrack to a high volume, sing along at the top of my lungs, and redesign my bedroom for the forty millionth time.
Either that or I come on here and read a bit, or possibly post.
If I am particularly stressed, I may just go to sleep.
Not that I ever sleep, except from approximately 11:00-4:00 at night, after tossing and turning for three hours or so. Every night. You should see the circles under my eyes. Sigh.
Time alone and something that’s wicked funny.
I distract myself with reading, writing, or something else that interests me.
I’m probably the only one in this world who is stressed because I have so much free time. really. It was nice for the first week or so, but now I’m in the eight month. I don’t know what to do with myself. Plus, my stepdad now hasn’t spoken to me in five days, which isn’t helping.
What helps against stress? How about actually having a friend who isn’t on the other side of the ocean. Like you guys. You should all move over here so I can have some friends. Sounds good to me.
21-Road trip! Er, boat/ocean/air/plane trip! Whee!
Oh, God…I need this thread ever so much right now.
Road trips and boat/ocean/air/plane trips are great if you have time for them. What if you don’t : ? :
Funny…I don’t think of music as an escape, but it really is for me. I listen to music, sing along, think about stuff. I guess it distracts me. My mom doesn’t want me listening to my iPod before bed (something about “riling me up”), but to me it really is relaxing, even loud fast music. My recent favorite is Belle and Sebastian.
I actually am not that stressed now-I’ve learned to lighten up a bit. God, I went through so much crap last year.
I think that music really helps me settle down…homework isn’t so bad when you have music to listen to while you do it.
21 – I think you should move here instead.
music is the best. i got grounded yesterday because my mom was being irrational and ridiculous (i told her i was having pizza at a friend’s and i get in trouble for this?) anyway today she was getting mad at me for not having long cheerful conversations with her and i ended up getting a gigantic lecture that i really do not need at the moment, having plenty of stress in the form of torch stories and psychology papers. so i went upstairs for a bit and listened to dream theater.
I feel stressed that script frenzy is not for two months!
Stress:
Waking up at 5:30 and being tired most of the day, every day.
Not getting to eat breakfast most days.
Having to put up with my Algebra II teacher, who is without a doubt the worst teacher I’ve ever had, and a witch with a b.
Another French project: a news broadcast that will be filmed in our school’s TV studio, which means no mistakes.
Having to read a book for English that I threw across the room after attempting and failing to read the first page.
Chem, which is a great class, but constantly stressful because I am generally confused.
History isn’t stressful unless we have to do an outline.
And then there’s my friends.
Shelby went out with Jeff. Shelby broke up with Jeff to go out with Kevin. Shelby broke up with Kevin. Shelby went out with Jeff again. Jeff broke up with Shelby and went out with Deni. Jeff broke up with Deni and went out with Shelby again. Now Shelby has broken up with Jeff and is dating Casey. Casey broke up with Shelby. Everything was fine for a couple of weeks, then Jeff broke up with Deni, and is going out with Shelby again.
The other thing is, Shelby, who’s been my best friend since fourth grade…well, we’re kind of not best friends anymore. We used to tell each other everything, and we would talk on the phone almost every night. Now, she hardly ever calls me, and I think that she doesn’t trust me as much anymore. And there are times when I think that she doesn’t care about me as much as she does about some of her other friends.
And my most current source of stress: romance, of course. I like a guy in my French and Chem classes. I was going to ask him out on Wednesday during our Chem double lab period. I couldn’t do it. I got really mad at myself for being stupid and weak/cowardly. So I wrote him a note, saying in writing what I couldn’t say aloud. Since I almost couldn’t give the note to him, I had my friend deliver it at the end of French. And now I’m worrying, because this guy did not say anything to me during Chem, and he didn’t come to study after Chem.
Model UN: We have the conference that we’re hosting at our school next Saturday. I should be researching right now.
GSA: We finally had another meeting. We’re going to have a bake sale next Thursday, and are going to be hanging signs advertising it on Monday and Tuesday. So, I’m staying after for Model UN on Monday and Wednesday to prepare for our conference, GSA on Tuesday and Thursday, and with my luck, there will probably be a FNHS meeting next Friday…
It’s also the time of year where I get to choose classes for next year. Enough said.
Wow. This is a long post.
STRESSS!!!!!
So I had a weird day. Around 4 my mom called and told me to pack her 3 days of stuff because she had to go to Puerto Rico and her flight left at 6:30. So she got home, grabbed her stuff, and left around 4:15. It takes about 1 1/2 hours to get to the airport so she was in a rush.
Then we came to my dad’s and he’s been bugging me about my school routine all day. He wants me to wake up later and go to bed earlier and take lunch to school instead of buying it and eat a huge breakfast and a bunch of other stuff. The week after next I have to stay here for a whole school week because my mom will be in North Carolina for business.
My best friend lives in North Carolina, so not only will my mom be closer to my best friend that I have been in a year, but she is also going to DC to visit our friend Ana from India and her 2 daughters. I’ve wanted to meet Ana’s daughters for so long, and I want to go to a Kokon in DC.
My mom says we might go to DC for a weekend or something sometime, so that’s ok.
I’m also scheduling classes for next year and freaking out because I have no clue what I want to do with my life.
On saturday I am taking a judging certification test for taekwondo so I have to study the rules.
Basically, I read. I read and read until I’m lost in a world that’s not mine. I read until I’m calm enough to get back into the real world.
Random factoid on stress- did you know that dogs (or any pet but mostly dogs) can raise your life span by about 7 years? It’s because it lowers the amount of stress!!!
The first/second day of health we were supposed to write the age we hoped to live to (relatively… I was not allowed to put ∞, although I hope to get that far. So far so good.) Then he would say things like ‘mines 6 years for not getting enough sleep, minus 7 for stress, ect. I was laughing really hard when I noticed my friend had written she hoped to make it to age ’32’ and should expect to die at age 12.
But I lost about 15 years or so just for lack of sleep/stress/sadness, and that was just with what was on his little list. Maybe I should just aim for 32 myself.
Stress is life. Pretty much. There’s not much *else* in life. 20% fun/excitement, 10% boredom, 70% stress.
What I’m stressed out about?
– Math. ‘Nuff said.
– School in general. I have a lot of homework.
– MathCounts. The competition’s today.
– Chess meet. Ditto.
– Friendship problems.
I really want to scream at the top of my lungs and punch something really hard. Like someone I’m fighting with at school.
#1 Stress-reducer: Reading Muse, or Attack of the Smart Pies.
A few ways I find stress release is by reading a book, listening to my ipod, and petting my cat, Licorice.
To get away from stress:
First, cry if you have to. That gets rid of lots of bad awful horrible chemicals that make you feel bad.
Second, figure out what you actually have to do. Place it in priority order.
If there’s not enough time to do stuff, eliminate the things at the bottom of the list.
Do the things on the list in order, and cross them out when you finish them. That gives you a great feeling of accomplishment.
‘Course, that only works for workload-related stress.
For other kinds (emotional, social), you can write all the bad stuff down in a journal or talk to somebody. Then, read a really funny book to stop you from thinking.
And listen to the Beatles. No way that can’t make you feel at least slightly better. =)
I cry when I’m stressed. It makes me feel a lot better.
I have a new way of dealing with stress when I’m at my dad’s now and that way is playing Wii because we got one today wooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (or should I say Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!)
I listen to my Ipod!
For me I yell about my day to the internet, that helps.
I don’t think I can even get into the list of things that stress me out…I think we need an airing of grievances.
Too often I try to cope with stress in ways that lead to more stress…I sleep a lot, but then too much, or procrastinate. I have my de-stressing songs too, but that’s more for emotional stuff and not OH MY GOD I HAVE A 3.0 AND EVERYONE ELSE HAS A 4.5 WHY AM I ALIVE moods.
My way of dealing with stress (in other words, my life for the past two weeks):
Go on MuseBlog.
Problems with above method:
Above method leads to further procrastination and multi-tasking, which leads to more stress.
Solution to above problem:
Go on MuseBlog.
That didn’t work much. o.o
Next week will probably be the most stressful of my life.
A) Model UN- I’m staying after school Monday and Wednesday next week to prepare for our conference, which means I’ll be at school most of the day on Saturday.
B) GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance, not Girl Scouts)- Staying after Tuesday to hang up posters for our bake sale, which is on Thursday, which means I have to somehow find time to make fudge.
C) See the R&R thread, post 301. Enough said.
D) My dad’s going on a business trip next week, which means I won’t be able to go rock climbing, and reason A means I won’t be going to karate next week either.
E) French Project- News Broadcast- being filmed in the TV studios of our school next Thursday- have to make a script.
F) [expletive] And how could I have forgotten course selection!?!?
That’s it.
42-That’s IT? You’ve got a packed week, La Mort. Hope you can get through it all.
I have had the flu and I am under quarantine. My own mother won’t hug me….. *sneezes*
42-Aw. That’s a lot. Ummm…hey you got post 42 so smile!
Maybe…
Another way to eliminate stress is by helping and thinking of others. It can help you forget your stress when you know your making someonelse’s day a little bit brighter.
34- I have a competition Wednesday. I’m really nervous because I’m the worst person on the team and I only got asked to do it because another person couldn’t go. Yikes!!!!
Ugh. I can’t stand stress. School is pretty much my cause of stress, however much I love it.
48-Are you new? *pies*
My parents are very stressing. Mostly my mom. She nags about everything because she’s always stressed so then my sister and I get stressed too.
25- I love Belle and Sebastian! *wants to listen to it* *doesn’t have it* *is sad*
41- That’s me. It’s not even funny.
Stuff that stresses me:
• The house is a mess.
• Opal is so annoying! (Luckily she’s not here right now.)
• I get all my homework in huge chunks, so that after weeks of free time and happiness I suddenly have more homework than I can do in the three days that I have.
• Groceries and the lack thereof.
• Money.
• My inability to write.
• My acting assignment (see random thread).
• My addiction to MuseBlog.
Some stress can be solved by reading, some can be solved by listening to music, and some is only elevated by those things. MuseBlog doesn’t cause me much joy anymore, and I know I should take a break before I become addicted again, but the house is cold and I don’t want to move around so I sit on top of the heater in front of the computer and blog.
Now that the Salmon Bowl is over life should be better.
(50) Alice, can you tell us more specifically why the blog doesn’t cause you much joy any more?
51- Ummm…. A lot of people are all depressed, which is really exhausting when it’s on such a large scale. And all the writing threads have died, and the other writers don’t come on much anymore, with the exception of Meow and TMFA. And whenever I have an experience that doesn’t correspond with my daily routine, my entire perspective of everything changes, which is very unsettling.
It’s mostly personal issues. It doesn’t actually have much to do with the Blog.
Hot baths are good for stress. But then you have to get out of the hot bath because it gets lukewarm.
Okay, this seems a weird thing to say, but getting dressed has become stressful for me lately. Maybe it’s because I’ve got a really messy closet, and maybe it’s because I feel that I have to wear something interesting every day. I should go back to my shepherdess days, when I wore the same wool skirt for weeks at a time.
Alice – I completely agree with MuseBlog not being a joy anymore. Nobody is on any of the writing threads so they are all dying, which is really sad. Everyone is depressed, and while I’m glad we can help people through their problems, it is exhausting and makes me depressed as well. Also, everyone is leaving. A lot of my really good friends from MuseBlog and people from the very beginning (when it was easier to really bond with people, because there weren’t as many) aren’t here anymore. It probably has to do with some personal things as well, but MB is definitely going through a down time at the moment. I just hope it comes back.
We’re open to suggestions.
Maybe this period will go down in MB history as the Winter of Our Discontent.
55- yeah.
NaNo killl the RRRs. oddly.
Oh, and I’m Write a segment for RRR 2007.4
54- Exactly.
55- Ha. Yeah.
I almost just want a fresh start. Maybe I’ll go create one of those forum-thingies that all the oldbies who have outside contact used to make and then abandon.
Except that I don’t really fit into the olbies-with-outside-contact group, except for the email contact bit. Most of my close MB friends, not to mention the GAPAs, aren’t in that group, and I would be sad if they weren’t there.
57- Oh good.
55- ‘Now is the winter of our discount tent.’ theres a picture of that somewhere on the intertubes. the inside joke/pun picture.
What group do you consider me to be a part of, Alice? Do I act like most oldbies? I’d prefer to think of myself as ageless…
60- You’re in between. You have outside contact, but you still post on the blog.
55-Mmhm. Hopefully we’ll be happier when the cold lifts.
Even though I’m still somewhat a newbie, I really get sad when the oldbies leave.
54-oh yes. Completely. That is the #1 problem.
Hmmm I don’t know if I fit in any group. ?___? The only person here on MB that ever liked me much was Penty and she poofed for school I believe…ah well such is the internet
My suggestions is if you feel too attached to a site, take a break. And don’t get mad about it (not saying anyone is, mind!) because that creates problems, and problems like that on the internets don’t do good for anyone.
Dealing with stress…recently I’ve found coding during my web design class therapeutic somehow. Something so relaxing about colspan and stylesheets, harhar.
64- I’ve liked you, Axa!
62- Newbie? what?
64- Yeah. Break-taking is needed. But I don’t think I could do it.
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Stress… STILL THERE! I want school to end already.
66-What?
I notice that I haven’t been able to understand what people on here are talking about a lot lately.
I wish it were summer. I could be in the park or Peru or not in my stupid school or basement.
65) aww oxlin, thanks! I meant to include you…
68) That’s how I feel everyday too!
69 – I think he’s saying that you aren’t really a newbie. I don’t consider you one either.
Do people consider me a newbie, an oldie, or somewhere in between?
64- I like you, but we’ve never really conversed.
71- oldbie. like me, Alice, POSOC, Rt-H, ICBF!, Beavo, Agagabagabag, Gim and so on.
71- You’re right!
Yeah, I never really got to know you Axa, but your posts sure seem nice…..? [/not coming out right words]
71- I think of you as “The neon generation”. It’s really odd, but I see the generations in colors. The oldbies are slightly muted colors, a bit darker then everyone else but still a large variety of colors. And then there’s the people in between, who are really really bright, pinks and bright blues and oranges and vivid greens, and then the newbies are more pen-ink blue and green and red. And then there are the OTHER people in between, who aren’t really old enough to be oldbies but more serious than the neon generation. They’ve got all the colors but they’re not as warmly muted as the oldbies.
It all very strange.
XD; Thanks guys, now i feel like a jerk…hahaha…I think it’s because I was so turned off of roleplaying two years ago that I never went in the writing threads, but oh well +__+;
I have a really skewed sense of who’s an oldbie or what…I mean in my mind I still think of MontgomeryGurl as a newbie haha.
75-I kinda know what you mean… but for me it’s more like- oldbies: dark earthy tones for example dark purple or greenish… in-betweens: straight colors, like straight red, no alterations. Newbies: Bright yellow! NEON! you get the idea…
75 – I have no idea why, but that made me burst out laughing. It’s not the way I tend to think of it, but it’s definitely a neat perspective.
78-your color has gone from bright to green to a bit darker… I can’t really think of you as an earthy brown-green…
79 – Haha, I’m assuming that’s a good thing. I’m unique!
My perspective of newbies and oldies is incredibly skewed, because of 2 reasons:
1) I’ve been on and off MuseBlog, so every time I come back I feel like everyone above me has been here longer than me
2) I tend to think of the people I talk to more as oldies, while people I don’t talk to much appear to me to be newer.
For example, I consider Alice and POSOC to have been here for near forever, while Beavo and IBCF are slightly older than me, Unintended Pun/Kiki the Great/TMFA about my age, and Gim younger than me. Just using people I can think of off the top of my head as examples. And then oxlin and Grant and Axa are sort of weird in that list, because I don’t talk to them too often, but I know they’re ancient, so they somehow end up being about the same as Alice and POSOC.
75- so what color gen am I?
81 – I see you and Axa and Grant (who are some of the oldest people here) as very pale, muted colors. You’re sort of a light blue, Axa is a light orangish pink, and Grant is pale green.
80- ooh, interesting. yeah, I think of people based on relative calm. Often I’ll be startled to learn that someone hasn’t been here long if I’ve already gotten used to thinking of them as old. It gets fuzzy after gen three or so on MG’s scale. well, whatever the first super big gen was.
83 – Exactly! If people act really mature and confident I’ll kind of assume they’ve been here forever, while the newbies seem to be more likely to use chatspeak like “um what r u guys talking about???”
84- I think like that too. I think a lot of the oldbies who aren’t so great at spelling are newbies sometimes.
Why are we talking about newbies? SInce this is the stress thread, and we should be talking about how we deal with stress, I’ll write something.
I deal with stress by having fun on snow days, like yesterday and today.
I have different definitions of “Oldbie”-ness than others, I think. Oldbies I consider people who posted before me, and even a few months after. People like oxlin, Axa, Grant, Sweet Melpomene, Monty, Ebeth, FantasyFan, myself, Taiwan Hippo Fan, Queenie J, all of the other Gaboomba people, Koko #2, Phoenix, Zyviva, Penty, KitKat, and many others, though I can’t think of everyone at the moment.
Then, I have a category of “oldish-bies,” who are people that came significantly after me, but still are old. That time-range is the broadest, including Kiki, Alice, Red-tailed HAWK, Glassboro, Capricious, Unintended Pun, Cat’s Meow, POSOC, Midnight Fiddler, gim, TMFA, and many more.
I also have sort of a category of people I think I know really well. People who I have sort of bonded with, for whatever reason, and that I have known for either a really long time or have gotten to know really well. A lot of those people have left, sadly, but many of them are still here.
84,85- Yup. A newbie is someone who makes lots of typos.
Mostly. Midnight Fiddler and Jadestone both make lots of typos, and oxlin doesn’t capitalize her sentences, but all of those people have unquestionably been around for ages.
75- Oldbie gen. Your color is sort of dark warm blue or brown.
The best way to deal with stress (in my opinion)
Go to pizza shop. Eat whatever you want. Don’t think about the money. Get a fantasy book, for example, Harry Potter. Then, take a bubble bath with very hot water and bath salts. Then drink a lot of hot tea with caffien and eat chocolate. When the suger/caffien crash hits, go to bed.
84-85- Well, I think of newbies like that when it comes to abreviations and chatspeak, but not for typos.
Hmmm…. Am I still a newb?
Vixen (89): I definitely don’t consider you a newbie; you’re in my oldish-category.
I would consider myself a newb.
I’ve only been here since late October.
How long do you have to stick around here before you become oldish?
91 – But see, you post so much, that you fit into my new-ish-but-still-old category.
IBCF – you fit into my new-ish-but-still-old category as well, because I feel like I have gotten to know you relatively well.
Am I oldish? I’ve passed my one year aniversary in October or something. I forgot when it is.
IBCF, I just realized that you’re not really a newbie category anymore. You’re officially in Beavo’s-List-Of-Old-People.
That’s a good thing, I think.
Beavo-Do you think I’m old?
Think about that very carefully…
I eat a lot when I’m stressed.
I like to paint my nails too. I don’t know if it’s the concentration or the fumes, but it relaxes me.
I just noticed that i’ve been using a lot of smileys lately…
94 – Yes, you’re old. For me, old generally = well known, which is probably why IBCF ranks highly on my scale even though he’s newish, because he’s on a lot of the same threads I am. Old is a good thing, by the way.
95 – You’re an old MuseBlogger, which is a good thing.
95 (Again) – I use smilies a lot, too. Even this is less than on other websites I go on, though. ^_^
91- I agree with 92 and 93.
94- you are oldish.
I am SO STRESSED! major majormajor high school drama has pushed its way into my life. Oh please help!
94-You’re oldish, I think. But wasn’t I here before you? I has no memory of the passing years. Ugh… I really need to get some sleep… but …but…*hyperventilates and fints from brain growth*
IBCF- You’re in the neon generation. So yeah. Sort of old. My age.
Alice, and others: what about me?
Agrrrfishi (98): If you explain what’s happening, I might be able to help, though I’m quite dreadful at relationship dype drama.
I don’t know really how I classify people, or how they classify me. I think I’m kind of old, now, but I’m not the well known, here-from-the-beginning old, but the kind of long-time lurker old. *thinks* Maybe I’m neon with beige polka dots.
98-If you do have a snow day, you could just go out and play in the snow… Maybe build a snow man?
Pan and purplefinch- I don’t know. I think you’re in the same place. I think you’re the people-in-between-who-aren’t-neon-much.
100,101- oldbies. purplefinch I automatically associate with the Books and Reading threads.
*notices thread title* hmm… Stress. I’m MUCH less stressed today because I turned in a major paper today. as in I’ve been writing it since this summer major. so. oxlin = much less stressed now.
Yee-ha! Okay…*calms down**was never actually very uncalm**has nothing to put in asterisks**puts them up anyway**it seems like**what other MBers say**at the moment on this thread**about old-bies and**newbies, I agree with**I’m considered**Old!**Just like**Hic**Hiccups*
100-oh yes, * you I consider* oldbie* arr*grh!*weee*eeeee!
To de-stress, I listen to slow electronica music like Precious by Depeche Mode. It’s calming, really calming. And I write a lot, so getting whatever I’m feeling out helps too. I write a lot of songs whenever I feel an intense emotion.
I vent on the internet to deal with stress. So here it goes…
I like snow days but I haven’t had anything to do so i’m really antsy and I need to go do something. There is always a ton of drama at my school.
My best guy friend lives in NC now (I’m in Ohio) and I really miss him. I’m really worried about him because he’s having a lot of problems right now and he’s really depressed. A lot of the problems he has are relationship problems which makes me sad because I still like him, but I give him advice and try to help him anyway because I know there’s no chance for us ever being together again. (he’s also my ex). I wish he could just come back here again so I could hug him and let him know it will be ok because he’s going through a lot of what I did.
I need this thread. There is so much to do, and so little time in which to do it! How will the play be ready by the 22nd? Why won’t the the props person call me? We need her!
Ugh. *collapses*
So many lists… Why does the ASM have so much to do?
Hi. Am I an oldie or a newbie?
MuseBlog and Pokemon and books relax me.
109 – You’re a newbie, pretty much.
I have no idea what’s going on. It’s almost like I’m trying to stress myself out. I just finished one school project, and I just got elected group leader for another mini-project, I’m volunteering to help my school with some enviromental thing, and I’m going to help my science teacher build a website. It’s weird.
Depends on the stress, but being alone, being with friends and/or loud music helps.
110 – A NEWBIE??? Have you seen how long I’ve been here??? Check under “Who’s here”. I’m under fellowmuser.
64- Axa I like you! I miss you on the poetry thread.
112- Well for me name changes means the old person mysteriously vanishes and there’s another new person, because I seldom see the posts where they say they’re changing their name. Then months later and I randomly find out I’m shocked at what I’ve missed and disappointed because I thought they’d left.
I also didn’t know you used to be fellowmuser >.≤ Hello
I think I got a C on the psych essay… or worse… even I could tell I was rushing DX And the test is on tuesday too
Ooh, Alice, what color am I?
Hmm, I think my two-year mark is sometime soon… if it hasn’t passed…
I need to get back with writing…that thread, and the short stories thread? Or general writing…hummmmm
I kind of hate the fact we can check our grades online since I go check like everyday…not good for my mind
113- You’re really vibrant, jewel-tone green. Not quite jade, but not quite emerald. It’s a very beautiful color.
133 – Ditto.
Fellowmuser is a little older than me in terms of MuseBlog age, but Kokonilly is a newbie…
113, 116 – I think maybe I should have announced that as soon as I revived my MuseBlogging recently. Sorry.
Name changes are kind of weird, but everybody I know does it at least once.
ALL DONE WITH HOMEWORK… except for dreaded math.
103-Being associated with the Books and Reading threads is one of the nicest complements/comments I’ve received this week. *feels happy*.
Homework is stressful. So is school in general.
I eat a lot when I’m stressed. I also take a lot of naps and sleep a lot more.
Life is stressful.
what I need to do is write something. sensory overload that’s what this is
I eat cookies. Lots and lots of cookies. I’ve been stressed lately because my ‘best friends’ seemed to have ditched me.
I don’t like stress.
Either that or I go to Barnes and Noble and stare at the Twilight display. That helps.
123- Did you hear? “At 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, August 2, 2008, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers will release the most anticipated novel of the year — Breaking Dawn, the fourth and final book in Stephenie Meyer’s #1 international bestselling Twilight Saga.”
La Mort= not very stressed right now.
It’s vacation, and I can freely procrastinate.
greekgurl: NO FREAKING DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I peed my pants when I saw the announcement on her site five months ago!!! [no joke, i actually did]. Then I called my friends and told them and they were all peeing their pants too. I love Twilight.
Wow. I was so mad at my English teacher today that I had to restrain myself from running across the room and bashing his face in with my book.
I did this by attacking my left hand…by biting it…in the middle of class. It was weird.
And now I feel crazy even though this happened in 1º. I feel like I can’t control my anger any more and that I actually could snap and hurt someone else.
I don’t even know why I was so mad. My teacher normally just annoys me a bit, and at his worst frustrates me. I dislike him but I thought I didn’t care enough to want to hurt him.
I feel like that a lot now. If someone is making me mad I just visualize myself breaking things and screaming and attacking peolpe. I actually consider it too, and I’m afraid of having any physical violence in me.
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I was watching a play at school, and this kid behind me would NOT SHUT UP! So then I elbow him. He jabs a pen into my head. I elbow him back. And so on.
I wanted to STRANGLE that kid. It was a good play. He had no right to insult every single cast member, the jazz band, the director, and the playwright!
DIE! DIE! DIE!
Rant over.
*spazzez*
WHY IS THE BLOG SO MESSED UP?
I am irratable and can’t spell now.
*jdskhfkdsbgbdfvafbdsghsdhfsd*
If that is even a verb.
Oh yes. You have zero idea.
I also listen to music.
127- Yes. I bite my hand too. One of these days I am going to break the skin. If I don’t give myself a concussion first from banging my head against the wall.
I punch my soft squishy pillow, then I throttle it. It helps, but if I’m not at home, then I bite my hand or finger. Really hard.
132/133-Woah. I thought I was the only person who did that. Lucky for me i have weak jaws so I couldn’t break the skin even if i wanted to. I usually end up stopping because my jaws hurt.
I am stressed right now. It seems like I can’t do anything I like. not that nobody would let me, but I’m either not good at it or there’s other obligations that have to come before it. One of my favorite things in the world was being in the school choir, but this year I couldn’t take it because there wasn’t enough time in the schedule, and next year I can’t take it because it’s a full year course, and I only had 1/2 a year left for free picking. iI’m taking latin for one of the full years, which is great because I love latin, but the 1/2 of the one I want to use for choir is taken up by Geography because I need that to be a pilot, which is fine, but then there’s only 1/2 left. I ended up taking mythology for that one because people say the teacher is good, but I’m really mad at myself for that because it will be completely useless for anthing other than conversation. The other classes i was thinking about taking were Music Theory/keyboard or metals, but even the teachers said those were both burnout classes where people go for easy grades, and I don’t want to be around those people.
I’ve been so mad about this lately and I feel like I’m already burnt out of energy. I wish I could just drop down to tutor level classes and bum my way through high school, but I can’t. And now since I have relatively good grades, I’ll be expected to join NHS when I’m a junior. I really hate being in all these things sometimes even though they’re fun. It just takes up so much time and even though i like the stuff it’s not really what I want to do.
Woah. That was really long. Oh, I probably don’t mean it about hating stuff if I said I hate things. I just can’t think of a better word right now.
134- Aw, I’m sorry. I feel like that a lot, although not so much lately. I’m driven by the fact that whatever little bit of a social life I had a while ago has crumbled as the only person I ever really hung out with is now obsessed with Magic, a game that I have absolutely no desire to play, and even when I do try to be social I just end up either being ignored or being unable to speak… Anyway, the point of that rambling sentence was that since I don’t have ANY sort of social life anymore, or any way to talk in school, I devote all my attentions to furthering my education.
I really wish we had a weighted GPA. I need my 4.0 (well I don’t *need* it, but I really want to do really well and get lots of scholarships and go to a good college, and that kind of relies on getting good grades… Although a 4.0 may be sort of unnecessary…), and my Honors class is draining my energy and my GPA.
BUT, I’m still taking all Honors classes next year. Some call me dedicated. Others call me crazy.
I bite my nails, but my hand? Nawww.
I have strong jaws ( I think), so I could probably make myself bleed badly if I wanted to. I stop when there are deep marks in my skin. And when my hand/fingernail hurts. I do bite my nails, but I bite the middle of my nail really hard.
I have a new #1 for dealing with stress: Work on my project, which currently involves reading hundreds of inspiration quotes. Plus, my project will get done faster, which will remove that stress from me.
Some visualization techniques I’ve found helpful:
Tacking
This wouldn’t make much sense if you don’t sail, but I imagine that’s I’m tacking across calm water. Tiller in my right hand, on Port, main sheet in left. Lean out, tiller away. Tuck in, pass tiller and sheet, flatten. Repeat.
Floating
Begin by putting yourself out of your body. Then look down into the room, from the ceiling. Float up until you see the whole building. Keep going as long as you can, to street, neighborhood, hamlet, town, county, island, state, coast, country, continent.
I think both work well because I’m then focused on keeping my mind out of my body, and working on a technical task that’s uncomplicated but busy.
WE did a unit on stress in health (Just about the only good unit in health) Stress really interests me
when it’s not killing me. I am under so much stress all of the time, it doesn’t help that I have anger problems and ADD it’s like people are expecting so much of me while I’m expecting the same of myself but some how I always screw up. And then everyone else is so dissappointed but I kinda knew it would happen all along. I’m not even surprized. Plus, talking to people stresses me out, so asking for help just isn’t in the picture. *sigh*
139- I do that, only with the Grand Canyon or Yosemite or a library. It’s very calming.