R&R for your brain?

my rescue dogs, it's hard to think about anything else when you pull up in the drive and see the little fur balls jump out of the doggie door and race the fence line waiting for you to unlock the gate and come in. they dance on their little back legs then when you come in and collapse on the sofa, they take turns jumping up and down in your lap wanting some quality time.

I meditate (eventually go to sleep), go to the gym, watch a DVD, do my school work, talk on the phone, or I'll go "windows" shopping.

Read a novel, play online scrabble, or work in my vegetable garden. Brings me 'back to earth' :)

I watch television and go to the gym.

I take a bubble bath or lay down on the floor in front of the CD player and play LOUD music. My kids call it "mom volume".

Fawlty Towers. If you can watch that show and not laugh, you don't have a pulse.

I also have a nice selection of the little useless "for looks" bed pillows. When I have a bad night, I come home and throw them around and cuss in foreign language. German's good for cussin'....

Novels, documentaries, treadmill, gossip, hang out here in Allnurses (but I guess AN doesn't count for keeping my mind off of nursing...).

i have a very spoiled cat named myprecious who is always happy to take my mind off work.

and if im still ranting and raving he will listen with a sympathtic purrrrrrrrr:yeah:

A hot bubble bath and a glass of wine, or two.. :wink2:!

I play video games. Nothing makes you lose yourself like a good video game. Especially the action adventure where you have to figure stuff out. If I don't have a good game, a trip to the library always calms me down and let me go on my own adventure without ever leaving my bedroom.

And the internet. I read alot of online books(mostly manga), that always gets me laughing.

Ebay surfing. I can get lost in doing searches for all kinds of mess that I don't really need. Reading also does it for me. Sometimes something superficial and mindless like a magazine does it. If I need to really get something off my mind, I try to read something that you have to pay attention to very closesly to keep up, something that requires my full concentration. Michael Crighton's (spelling?) novels come to mind. Music helps too. Anything that you can get lost into that has nothing to do with nursing (so put down that Nursing2009 journal!)