burned out stressed out
husband is going on work trip (you both wfh)
plan week off while he's away so you can just go fucking ape and keep your favoured night owl hours, make horrible noises all day woodworking, sort the garden, all that fun stuff
file leave, get the fucking week wrong
This used to be me. Vacation is a skill, developed over time! Don't listen to other people, learn what you like to do and do it, And no shame!
If you need to spend 2 weeks sleeping in a coffin under ur house, with chips & shows, u do u babe.
If you need to spend 2 weeks sleeping in a coffin
Slumbering. Vampires slumber! Viva Al Qolnidar
"Mosquitoes the size of horseflies" I think those were just crane flies, which are harmless lol
they bit me thru my shirt
Y'all get to take time off for mental health reasons?
Doesn't matter how stressed I feel, I still gotta go to work... :(
You can usually take paid time off for whatever reason.
Maybe not in the US, apparently employee rights are non-existent there
Unfortunately, I do work in the US, and yeah it's pretty nonexistent in most cases. I have a union job and it's pretty ineffectual; corporate pretty much owns the union. Even my wages are below-market.
Pretty much the only reason I stay is because due to union protection, a manager can't just walk in one day, look at me, decide they don't like me for whatever reason, and have a subordinate fire me for no listed reason, which I've had happen multiple times in the past regardless of my performance.
I just take a different, more affordable kind of trip ๐
if I knew somebody with a hookup I probably would tbh
used to do delta-8 but i've pretty much quit because I started having bad trips/panic attacks basically every time i ate a gummy.
am open to trying other stuff like shrooms, dmt, or acid but I have no connections and no knowledge of how to make those kind of connections.
The sad thing about having to live with your parents in this economy, is that I can't possibly take a proper vacation day. If I did, my mom would most certainly use it to get me to do some extra chores. Even if I went to a hotel, half of the time would be spent unpacking and the other half repacking.
I swear my solo holidays are like this.
This is me whenever I plan on a staycation....and it turns into my mom(bc who can afford to move out???) Finding shiz I need to do and I just can't seem to rest bc gotta be productive ๐ซ
I've had bad mental health breaks but this is still a good outcome overall.
Imagine being in poor mental state and still having to work, I'd take the break any day.
While it's easy for me to say, in this case you contributed to your stress levels. I'm not a buddhist but I found a lot of the teachings helpful, combined with an audiobook from Derren Brown called 'Happy'... in this situation the best move would be to assess what can be changed (activity, location) and what cannot be changed (the weather, if the fish are biting, mosquitos).
It's a bit of a grim idea to come to terms with, but acceptance that many aspects of life happen to us with no control is oddly freeing. Anyway I'll fuck off now with my advice. You might hate it and I can't control that!
I was excited for my birthday because I was gonna finally take the time to finish cleaning/rearranging my bedroom, since I gutted the room and then got sidetracked for two weeks.
Woke up today with some of the worst back pain I've ever had. I think I must've strained a muscle or something in my sleep, but it hurts to move.
Why would you go anywhere with a cold? That's gonna certainly be more miserable than staying home with a child, which is also miserable but at least in air conditioning
