Bad day? How do you unwind? - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

Wes Mantooth · 07-28-2010, 09:16 PM

We've all had them and I'd wager most of us have a routine or thing to take the edge off.

Hot bath? Chain smoking luckies while pounding case after case of cheap beer? Tea? Prostitutes? Double fisting bacon wrapped donuts while quietly sobbing over your diary? Scream at random people on the street? Lighting shit on fire? <--- oh stop we've all done it

So lets hear em. How do you keep from letting a bad day fester into a blinding rage of cussing, fists and spit directed at anybody unfortunate enough to be within 20 feet of you?

Personally I love to drive. Sure it might sound dangerous getting behind the wheel carrying the rage of a 1000 demons in your gut but after and hour or two of aimless driving, thinking and some good music life doesn't seem too bad anymore.

What else works for you folks?

Plan9 · 07-28-2010, 09:20 PM

Who lights things on fire? That's just silly.

Me? Motorcycle. You can't be preoccupied and keep the bike upright, so you quickly forget your troubles. Turns out physics always defeats a bad mood. Does wonders for me when I've had a bad day. I'll hop on and do a triangle out west and come back trying to remember why I was cranky. I don't listen to music while I ride because I figure it's a bad habit even though I can't hear too much with my pipes and the half helmet, but I bet that'd be awesome.

Rough sex works if doesn't involve the person you're pissed at (assuming it's a person in the first place).

Exercise works assuming I can get myself in the mood to do it while irked. Sparring. Running. Lifting.

Booze is good cure-all too. Nothing like running 6 miles drunk to take your mind off your troubles.

Baraka_Guru · 07-28-2010, 09:23 PM

Video games.

It's essentially killing people in your mind.

Wes Mantooth · 07-28-2010, 09:29 PM

There are two kinds of people in the world Plan, those who admit to lighting things on fire and those who lie about it. Actually have you ever had angry sex with the person you're fighting with? MY GOD no piece of furniture is safe.

BG I used to love coming home, loading up GTA and just randomly shooting people for about an hour while yelling out obscenities that haven't been invented yet. Great stress reliever.

spindles · 07-28-2010, 09:53 PM

I work from home. The people I'm usually pissed off at are well out of earshot. Yelling profanities at them does help, however.

Wes Mantooth · 07-28-2010, 09:59 PM

That's awesome spindles, I do the same thing...although I fear my neighbors probably think I have tourettes or something.

Jove · 07-29-2010, 06:51 AM

When I am having a bad day, I usually run 2-3 miles and use my anger to run faster.

Redlemon · 07-29-2010, 07:04 AM

You can't control other people's actions, you can only control your reactions to them. Ask yourself: is my anger useful? Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. My car was totalled a couple of months ago. I was holding onto my anger at the guy who rear-ended me, and that was interfering with my search for a new car, because I was still focusing on how unfair it was that I had to go through the process. This was not useful anger.

My best release for a bad day is a good book, one that I've read before and love. I can drop into that familiar universe created by the book and lose myself.

Plan9 · 07-29-2010, 07:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Wes Mantooth

There are two kinds of people in the world Plan, those who admit to lighting things on fire and those who lie about it.

Pfft. I used to get paid to light things on fire. It was my job, nothing random about it.

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Originally Posted by Redlemon

You can't control other people's actions, you can only control your reactions to them. Ask yourself: is my anger useful?

This. The point of this thread would be the reactions that blow off steam without destroying furniture or getting you fired for "speaking your mind."

Cynthetiq · 07-29-2010, 08:08 AM

I used to save it all up on a binge weekend.

Now, I meditate to let it all go.

Sue · 07-29-2010, 08:54 AM

My boyfriend gets to hear it all if I have a bad day. He draws a bath for me with a glass of wine in my favorite glass and lights a bath and body works candle for me. Then places both on the edge of the tub waiting until I get home.

snowy · 07-29-2010, 09:20 AM

Exercise and video games, especially FPS games. What makes my bad day go away is totally kicking my SO's ass at Perfect Dark (yeah, we're old school).

LordEden · 07-29-2010, 09:26 AM

Video games, cooking, and sometimes ranting. Sometimes I just got to get things off my chest and yell at something. I also like to cook when I'm stressed. Something about cooking takes my mind off of the day and on to making good food.

Drinking, drinking helps a lot.

Meditrina · 07-29-2010, 09:44 AM

It is difficult for me to unwind from a stressful work day because of the kids. Sometimes, taking care of them and playing with them actually helps because it takes my mind off of work. When that does not help, after they go to bed I have a glass of wine, read a book, and go to sleep.

Taking shots of Captain Morgan really helps on the days I don't have the kids.

Jinn · 07-29-2010, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Plan9

Me? Motorcycle. You can't be preoccupied and keep the bike upright, so you quickly forget your troubles. Turns out physics always defeats a bad mood. Does wonders for me when I've had a bad day. I'll hop on and do a triangle out west and come back trying to remember why I was cranky.

You know, I've never thought about that. I love riding, especially after a stressful day.. but I never really articulated this reason. It's so true. You can't do everything you need to in order to not die (scan, watch for idiots in their boxes, come to a stop and put your feet down, even lean considerably into a corner) with any other thought preoccupying your mind. I've definitely come home from a ride totally ..blank, in a good way.

Other than that, the destress I always use (because it works everytime) is video games. I'm ridiculously good at games of all genres, so its always an ego boost to trounce the newbs, and that's exactly what I need to stop stressing.

ironpham · 07-29-2010, 10:11 AM

Smoking + Writing. I never write anything of real significance. I just write whatever I feel like writing. Lately it's been jokes.

Wes Mantooth · 07-29-2010, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Plan9

Pfft. I used to get paid to light things on fire. It was my job, nothing random about it.

But see you admitted it so my theory still stands

In all seriousness though sitting around a roaring fire can be quite relaxing as long as it wasn't started on somebodies couch.

SO lots of drinking, video games and exercise? Maybe the the ultimate way to relax after a bad day is to drink a bottle of rum and play Dance Dance revolution for few hours? Sure you might look like a jerk but, my god, how much fun especially for those watching.

I actually agree with you Meditrina, once in awhile I'll wind up looking after my two young nieces for an odd afternoon and chasing them around the back yard for a few hours really does help blow off steam. All that laughing and running and everything...how can you be angry after that? Of course it helps that I can just leave afterwards and my brother can deal with two very wound up kids.

CinnamonGirl · 07-29-2010, 11:00 AM

One of my favorite things to do when I'm pissed is to hit the batting cages. Unfortunately, there aren't any batting cages here

Really, pretty much anything physical works. Working out, sex, dancing... drinking rum and playing DDR would be pretty awesome, now that you mention it

If my bad day is more along the lines of "I'm tired and feel inadequate," then just sitting quietly outside with my thoughts and my cigarettes does wonders. When I lived at home, there was a maple tree I loved to climb nearly to the top, and I'd just sit there for a couple hours, thinking and daydreaming. Being somewhere in the woods and/or next to water helps, too.

CaliLivChick · 07-29-2010, 11:13 AM

Have a drink, surf the net, watch mindless tv, cuddle with boyfriend, or play (get poked with needles, get ass beat on, whatever BDSM activities we can do), just depends on what has caused the anger and if boyfriend is available or not.

Wes Mantooth · 07-29-2010, 11:17 AM

Thats really funny CG, I used to love hitting the batting cages too and not even for a bad day just because it was fun. I haven't done that in years though but know that you've mentioned it I think I need to go find one.

Does anybody here like to just get away? A cabin in the woods? A resort? A weekend on the beach? One of my favs was heading out for a weekend to my grandfathers hunting cabin, it was 50 miles from the nearest town with no electricity or running water. The kitchen had one of those old fashioned hand pumps over the sink, you had to use an outhouse and of course chopping wood to keep warm burned off a lot pent up frustration. By Monday morning you'd pretty much forgotten why you were ever upset in the first place.

CinnamonGirl · 07-29-2010, 11:31 AM

Some family friends used to have a cabin near Lake Cumberland when I was a kid. Weekend trips were highlights of my summer. It was a 20-30 minute drive into the nearest town, but took only a minute to walk down the path to the dock. We'd either swim off the dock (which had the bounciest diving board ever) or go tubing on the lake (and when I got older, wakeboarding and skiing.) My parents were always more relaxed on our weekend/sometimes week-long trips (which, looking back, is kind of surprising. My brother and I got up to all kinds of shenanigans when we were down there), and that's something I look forward to doing once I'm a little older and have the money to afford a boat.

Ooh, and just straight-up camping. With a tent. That's always a great time.

Wes Mantooth · 07-29-2010, 11:38 AM

Indeed, a tent and a campfire on some ridge with a great view and an open night sky, what could be better?

Jinn · 07-29-2010, 11:47 AM

I've never been to a batting cage. I thought they were just a movie plot device to make your protagonist seem like the everyman. I'd love to see one in person some day..

PonyPotato · 07-29-2010, 11:50 AM

Exercise always helps. A lot. A long bike ride, a long run.. getting outdoors and out of my head for a while helps immensely.

Also, staring at the sky or watching the water in a river or the creek. Nothing really gives me perspective quite like that. Watching the clouds slowly move across the sky is calming and really gets me thinking about the bigger picture, rather than whatever was bugging me.

Wes Mantooth · 07-29-2010, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Jinn

I've never been to a batting cage. I thought they were just a movie plot device to make your protagonist seem like the everyman. I'd love to see one in person some day..

They don't seem to be as common now as they used to be but you can usually find them at any place you might find game and such (fun parks, amusement parks, rec centers ect). It is a lot a fun to to just pound on fast balls for an hour.

lurkette · 07-30-2010, 05:27 PM

I have 3 things I do, depending on the flavor of bad day:

- I clean the fuck out of the house. If I can't put my life in order, at least I can put my stuff in order.

- For anxiety I exercise like mad, usually riding my exercise bike as hard as I can.

- There's a creek in a grassy park that's really just an empty field at the bottom of the hill a block away. I walk barefoot through the grass and then stick my feet in the creek and let the water wash over them. Nothing like it for just washing the stress away.

raging moderate · 07-30-2010, 08:51 PM

snowy · 07-30-2010, 08:53 PM

We have a camping trip that we're in the process of organizing for the weekend before our wedding. I am REALLY looking forward to it. We're going to one of my favorite places. There's a lake, and alpine meadows, and a small beach. And lots of toadlets.

Wes Mantooth · 07-30-2010, 11:22 PM

lurkette I love wading around in a stream, its...well I'm not sure but its really relaxing. The best? A babbling brook with a mossy patch or two on the shore under a canopy of trees, when you're done wading around head on over and take a nap on the moss...orgasmic!

snowy I really miss doing that, do you camp right down by the water? I used to have a little cabin I used in Northern Maine that sat right on the water front...only cabin on the lake too...I used to love sitting by that lake, loons calling, dim glow of a campfire, looking up at brilliant stars...smores and fresh lake trout. HOT DAMN. Enjoy it. WTF are toadlets by the way?

Plan9 · 07-31-2010, 06:37 AM

Just saying "toadlets" seems to work for me.

lurkette · 07-31-2010, 09:09 AM

Toadlets. Toadlets toadlets toadlets. Hm. Not bad!

snowy · 07-31-2010, 09:17 AM

Toadlets are baby toads. Western toad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Seriously, at this lake they are so thick that you have to be very, very careful on the trail around the lake, because the northwest end of the lake is toadlet territory.

Wes Mantooth · 07-31-2010, 11:42 AM

Oh yeah I've seen those things, I've just never heard them called toadlets before. But know that I'm in the know, I think I'll start using it.

CaliLivChick · 08-01-2010, 04:32 PM

so most recently, it was crying in the bathtub, primal screams, and pounding on the tub wall.

Plan9 · 08-01-2010, 04:34 PM

Toadlets.

CaliLivChick · 08-01-2010, 04:49 PM

toadlets.

Wes Mantooth · 08-01-2010, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by CaliLivChick

so most recently, it was crying in the bathtub, primal screams, and pounding on the tub wall.

Thats how I tend to handle a bad day as well

Toadlets

noodle · 08-01-2010, 05:14 PM

Depends on what type of bad day I had.

Hot bath, candles, glass of red wine or a beer, and a book.
A really good cry or scream... or both.
A big bowl of pho and a scary movie.
Talking with S about frustrations and he usually makes me do something for distraction.
Sex.
Hot shower and then laying under a cool fan to reset my system.
Disco nap.

I loved going to the beach and laying under the hot sun until my whole body melted. But, the dermatologist says, no.
I also love when we go camping and I can stare at the river or at the campfire and totally go mindless for awhile. And becoming lost in good fiction is perfect for de-stressing, as long as I can focus on it.

Wes Mantooth · 08-01-2010, 05:40 PM

Good list noodle...but I'm confused:

1) Pho?
2) Disco Nap?

Add in toadlets and I'm getting a fantastic vocabulary lesson here.

Anyway yeah starring blindly at a fire is just a wonderfully hypnotic way to de-stress your mind, good call.

noodle · 08-01-2010, 07:13 PM

Pho is vietnamese noodle soup. It's restorative properties are amazing.
And a disco nap is the short, intense nap that you take in the late afternoon/early evening before you go out and party.

However, neither involve toadlets. Unless you want to share your pho with them.

07-28-2010, 09:16 PM	#1 (permalink)
Wes Mantooth Junkie Location: Tennessee	Bad day? How do you unwind? We've all had them and I'd wager most of us have a routine or thing to take the edge off. Hot bath? Chain smoking luckies while pounding case after case of cheap beer? Tea? Prostitutes? Double fisting bacon wrapped donuts while quietly sobbing over your diary? Scream at random people on the street? Lighting shit on fire? <--- oh stop we've all done it So lets hear em. How do you keep from letting a bad day fester into a blinding rage of cussing, fists and spit directed at anybody unfortunate enough to be within 20 feet of you? Personally I love to drive. Sure it might sound dangerous getting behind the wheel carrying the rage of a 1000 demons in your gut but after and hour or two of aimless driving, thinking and some good music life doesn't seem too bad anymore. What else works for you folks? __________________ “My god I must have missed it...its hell down here!”

07-28-2010, 09:20 PM	#2 (permalink)
Plan9 I Confess a Shiver	Who lights things on fire? That's just silly. Me? Motorcycle. You can't be preoccupied and keep the bike upright, so you quickly forget your troubles. Turns out physics always defeats a bad mood. Does wonders for me when I've had a bad day. I'll hop on and do a triangle out west and come back trying to remember why I was cranky. I don't listen to music while I ride because I figure it's a bad habit even though I can't hear too much with my pipes and the half helmet, but I bet that'd be awesome. Rough sex works if doesn't involve the person you're pissed at (assuming it's a person in the first place). Exercise works assuming I can get myself in the mood to do it while irked. Sparring. Running. Lifting. Booze is good cure-all too. Nothing like running 6 miles drunk to take your mind off your troubles. __________________ *Whatever you can carry.* "You should not drink... and bake." Last edited by Plan9; 07-28-2010 at 09:27 PM..

07-28-2010, 09:23 PM	#3 (permalink)
Baraka_Guru warrior bodhisattva Super Moderator Location: East-central Canada	Video games. It's essentially killing people in your mind. __________________ Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing? —Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön Humankind cannot bear very much reality. —From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

07-28-2010, 09:29 PM	#4 (permalink)
Wes Mantooth Junkie Location: Tennessee	There are two kinds of people in the world Plan, those who admit to lighting things on fire and those who lie about it. Actually have you ever had angry sex with the person you're fighting with? MY GOD no piece of furniture is safe. BG I used to love coming home, loading up GTA and just randomly shooting people for about an hour while yelling out obscenities that haven't been invented yet. Great stress reliever. __________________ “My god I must have missed it...its hell down here!”

07-28-2010, 09:53 PM	#5 (permalink)
spindles Mine is an evil laugh Location: Sydney, Australia	I work from home. The people I'm usually pissed off at are well out of earshot. Yelling profanities at them does help, however. __________________ who hid my keyboard's PANIC button?

07-28-2010, 09:59 PM	#6 (permalink)
Wes Mantooth Junkie Location: Tennessee	That's awesome spindles, I do the same thing...although I fear my neighbors probably think I have tourettes or something. __________________ “My god I must have missed it...its hell down here!”

07-29-2010, 06:51 AM	#7 (permalink)
Jove Groovy Hipster Nerd Location: Michigan	When I am having a bad day, I usually run 2-3 miles and use my anger to run faster.

07-29-2010, 07:04 AM	#8 (permalink)
Redlemon Devoted Donor Location: New England	You can't control other people's actions, you can only control your reactions to them. Ask yourself: is my anger useful? Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. My car was totalled a couple of months ago. I was holding onto my anger at the guy who rear-ended me, and that was interfering with my search for a new car, because I was still focusing on how unfair it was that I had to go through the process. This was not useful anger. My best release for a bad day is a good book, one that I've read before and love. I can drop into that familiar universe created by the book and lose myself. __________________ I can't read your signature. Sorry.

07-29-2010, 08:08 AM	#10 (permalink)
Cynthetiq Tilted Cat Head Administrator Location: Manhattan, NY	I used to save it all up on a binge weekend. Now, I meditate to let it all go. __________________ I don't care if you are black, white, purple, green, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, hippie, cop, bum, admin, user, English, Irish, French, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, indian, cowboy, tall, short, fat, skinny, emo, punk, mod, rocker, straight, gay, lesbian, jock, nerd, geek, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Independent, driver, pedestrian, or bicyclist, either you're an asshole or you're not. What's the best nation in the world? DO-NATION!

07-29-2010, 08:54 AM	#11 (permalink)
Sue Teufel Hunden's Freundin Location: Westminster, CO	My boyfriend gets to hear it all if I have a bad day. He draws a bath for me with a glass of wine in my favorite glass and lights a bath and body works candle for me. Then places both on the edge of the tub waiting until I get home. __________________ Teg yw edrych tuag adref.

07-29-2010, 09:20 AM	#12 (permalink)
snowy Kick Ass Kunoichi Location: Oregon	Exercise and video games, especially FPS games. What makes my bad day go away is totally kicking my SO's ass at Perfect Dark (yeah, we're old school). __________________ If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

07-29-2010, 09:44 AM	#14 (permalink)
Meditrina Junkie Location: LI,NY	It is difficult for me to unwind from a stressful work day because of the kids. Sometimes, taking care of them and playing with them actually helps because it takes my mind off of work. When that does not help, after they go to bed I have a glass of wine, read a book, and go to sleep. Taking shots of Captain Morgan really helps on the days I don't have the kids. __________________ "Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles." ~Alex Karras

07-29-2010, 10:11 AM	#16 (permalink)
ironpham DOOMTRAIN Location: NC	Smoking + Writing. I never write anything of real significance. I just write whatever I feel like writing. Lately it's been jokes. __________________ SIGNATURE.

07-29-2010, 11:00 AM	#18 (permalink)
CinnamonGirl She's Actual Size Location: Central Republic of Where-in-the-Hell	One of my favorite things to do when I'm pissed is to hit the batting cages. Unfortunately, there aren't any batting cages here Really, pretty much anything physical works. Working out, sex, dancing... drinking rum and playing DDR would be pretty awesome, now that you mention it If my bad day is more along the lines of "I'm tired and feel inadequate," then just sitting quietly outside with my thoughts and my cigarettes does wonders. When I lived at home, there was a maple tree I loved to climb nearly to the top, and I'd just sit there for a couple hours, thinking and daydreaming. Being somewhere in the woods and/or next to water helps, too. __________________ "...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world." "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

07-29-2010, 11:13 AM	#19 (permalink)
CaliLivChick In Transition Location: Sanford, FL (between Daytona and Orlando)	Have a drink, surf the net, watch mindless tv, cuddle with boyfriend, or play (get poked with needles, get ass beat on, whatever BDSM activities we can do), just depends on what has caused the anger and if boyfriend is available or not. __________________ Don't trust anything that can bleed for a week and not die. Oh wait, that's me... nevermind... you can trust me.

07-29-2010, 11:17 AM	#20 (permalink)
Wes Mantooth Junkie Location: Tennessee	Thats really funny CG, I used to love hitting the batting cages too and not even for a bad day just because it was fun. I haven't done that in years though but know that you've mentioned it I think I need to go find one. Does anybody here like to just get away? A cabin in the woods? A resort? A weekend on the beach? One of my favs was heading out for a weekend to my grandfathers hunting cabin, it was 50 miles from the nearest town with no electricity or running water. The kitchen had one of those old fashioned hand pumps over the sink, you had to use an outhouse and of course chopping wood to keep warm burned off a lot pent up frustration. By Monday morning you'd pretty much forgotten why you were ever upset in the first place. __________________ “My god I must have missed it...its hell down here!”

07-29-2010, 11:31 AM	#21 (permalink)
CinnamonGirl She's Actual Size Location: Central Republic of Where-in-the-Hell	Some family friends used to have a cabin near Lake Cumberland when I was a kid. Weekend trips were highlights of my summer. It was a 20-30 minute drive into the nearest town, but took only a minute to walk down the path to the dock. We'd either swim off the dock (which had the bounciest diving board ever) or go tubing on the lake (and when I got older, wakeboarding and skiing.) My parents were always more relaxed on our weekend/sometimes week-long trips (which, looking back, is kind of surprising. My brother and I got up to all kinds of shenanigans when we were down there), and that's something I look forward to doing once I'm a little older and have the money to afford a boat. Ooh, and just straight-up camping. With a tent. That's always a great time. __________________ "...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world." "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

07-29-2010, 11:38 AM	#22 (permalink)
Wes Mantooth Junkie Location: Tennessee	Indeed, a tent and a campfire on some ridge with a great view and an open night sky, what could be better? __________________ “My god I must have missed it...its hell down here!”

07-29-2010, 11:47 AM	#23 (permalink)
Jinn Lover - Protector - Teacher Location: Seattle, WA	I've never been to a batting cage. I thought they were just a movie plot device to make your protagonist seem like the everyman. I'd love to see one in person some day.. __________________ "I'm typing on a computer of science, which is being sent by science wires to a little science server where you can access it. I'm not typing on a computer of philosophy or religion or whatever other thing you think can be used to understand the universe because they're a poor substitute in the role of understanding the universe which exists independent from ourselves." - Willravel

07-29-2010, 11:50 AM	#24 (permalink)
PonyPotato Soaring Location: Ohio!	Exercise always helps. A lot. A long bike ride, a long run.. getting outdoors and out of my head for a while helps immensely. Also, staring at the sky or watching the water in a river or the creek. Nothing really gives me perspective quite like that. Watching the clouds slowly move across the sky is calming and really gets me thinking about the bigger picture, rather than whatever was bugging me. __________________ "Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark." — Henri-Frédéric Amiel

07-30-2010, 05:27 PM	#26 (permalink)
lurkette My future is coming on Moderator Emeritus Location: east of the sun and west of the moon	I have 3 things I do, depending on the flavor of bad day: - I clean the fuck out of the house. If I can't put my life in order, at least I can put my stuff in order. - For anxiety I exercise like mad, usually riding my exercise bike as hard as I can. - There's a creek in a grassy park that's really just an empty field at the bottom of the hill a block away. I walk barefoot through the grass and then stick my feet in the creek and let the water wash over them. Nothing like it for just washing the stress away. __________________ "If ten million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." - Anatole France

07-30-2010, 08:51 PM	#27 (permalink)
raging moderate Insane Location: Whatever house my keys can get me into	... __________________ These are the good old days... formerly Murp0434 Last edited by raging moderate; 07-30-2010 at 09:04 PM..

07-30-2010, 08:53 PM	#28 (permalink)
snowy Kick Ass Kunoichi Location: Oregon	We have a camping trip that we're in the process of organizing for the weekend before our wedding. I am REALLY looking forward to it. We're going to one of my favorite places. There's a lake, and alpine meadows, and a small beach. And lots of toadlets. __________________ If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

07-30-2010, 11:22 PM	#29 (permalink)
Wes Mantooth Junkie Location: Tennessee	lurkette I love wading around in a stream, its...well I'm not sure but its really relaxing. The best? A babbling brook with a mossy patch or two on the shore under a canopy of trees, when you're done wading around head on over and take a nap on the moss...orgasmic! snowy I really miss doing that, do you camp right down by the water? I used to have a little cabin I used in Northern Maine that sat right on the water front...only cabin on the lake too...I used to love sitting by that lake, loons calling, dim glow of a campfire, looking up at brilliant stars...smores and fresh lake trout. HOT DAMN. Enjoy it. WTF are toadlets by the way? __________________ “My god I must have missed it...its hell down here!”

07-31-2010, 06:37 AM	#30 (permalink)
Plan9 I Confess a Shiver	Just saying "toadlets" seems to work for me. __________________ *Whatever you can carry.* "You should not drink... and bake."

07-31-2010, 09:09 AM	#31 (permalink)
lurkette My future is coming on Moderator Emeritus Location: east of the sun and west of the moon	Toadlets. Toadlets toadlets toadlets. Hm. Not bad! __________________ "If ten million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." - Anatole France

07-31-2010, 09:17 AM	#32 (permalink)
snowy Kick Ass Kunoichi Location: Oregon	Toadlets are baby toads. Western toad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Seriously, at this lake they are so thick that you have to be very, very careful on the trail around the lake, because the northwest end of the lake is toadlet territory. __________________ If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

07-31-2010, 11:42 AM	#33 (permalink)
Wes Mantooth Junkie Location: Tennessee	Oh yeah I've seen those things, I've just never heard them called toadlets before. But know that I'm in the know, I think I'll start using it. __________________ “My god I must have missed it...its hell down here!”

08-01-2010, 04:32 PM	#34 (permalink)
CaliLivChick In Transition Location: Sanford, FL (between Daytona and Orlando)	so most recently, it was crying in the bathtub, primal screams, and pounding on the tub wall. __________________ Don't trust anything that can bleed for a week and not die. Oh wait, that's me... nevermind... you can trust me.

08-01-2010, 04:34 PM	#35 (permalink)
Plan9 I Confess a Shiver	Toadlets. __________________ *Whatever you can carry.* "You should not drink... and bake."

08-01-2010, 04:49 PM	#36 (permalink)
CaliLivChick In Transition Location: Sanford, FL (between Daytona and Orlando)	toadlets. __________________ Don't trust anything that can bleed for a week and not die. Oh wait, that's me... nevermind... you can trust me.

08-01-2010, 05:40 PM	#39 (permalink)
Wes Mantooth Junkie Location: Tennessee	Good list noodle...but I'm confused: 1) Pho? 2) Disco Nap? Add in toadlets and I'm getting a fantastic vocabulary lesson here. Anyway yeah starring blindly at a fire is just a wonderfully hypnotic way to de-stress your mind, good call. __________________ “My god I must have missed it...its hell down here!”