Crankiness Checklist

[jedusor]

Hey, self! Refer to this when feeling crappy for no apparent reason!

❒ Have you eaten in the last eight hours? Most of the time, this is the problem. You should know this by now.
❒ Have you been getting enough sleep? Most of the rest of the time, this is the problem. You should know that too.
❒ Have you showered recently? Feeling grungy makes you grouchy.
❒ Have you been outside at all in the last two days? There are physiological reasons that you as a human require a little sunshine once in a while. Yes, even though it makes you squint and gives you headaches. Deal, princess.
❒ Have you been brooding over your past interpersonal cockups? Knock it off. There's learning from your mistakes, and then there's shooting yourself in the emotional foot, and harping on shit you can't change does not ever help anyone.
❒ Are you wearing jeans around the house when you could be wearing comfy flannel pants? Why would you even do that? What is even wrong with you? Change your damn pants!

You are in general a pretty happy person, and 99% of the time, your bad moods are really easy to fix. Quit stomping around in a huff for hours on end when you could be solving the damn problem.

Comments

[blue-estro.livejournal.com]

Am I really the only person who prefers jeans in as around the house wear? (well, I prefer being nekkid, but jeans are a close third behind "just undies"*)

*If I ever hear of a thoroughbred named Just Undies, I may have to pay attention to horse racing.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

I dunno about everyone else, but I don't like wearing jeans during my downtime. If I'm cooking or cleaning or doing other active stuff, they're fine, but when I'm sitting/lying down I prefer sleep pants.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Yeah, pants without any buttons or zippers are best for lounging around in.

[rubrick.livejournal.com]

Good news: showering and changing pants work really well together!

[42itous.livejournal.com]

For me it's often PMS. Four weeks is long enough for me to forget it exists, so every time it starts it doesn't occur to me to say, "Self, you're just feeling [cranky/desolate/overwhelmed] because of hormones."

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

So true about the pants. I wear yoga pants constantly at home. It's a close second to being naked (and since there are surprisingly often construction work being done right outside my window, naked has turned out pretty badly for me).

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Curtains!

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

But that would require me to remember to shut them.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

The Mirena IUD was pretty much a miracle drug for me. I've had, I think, three periods in the last 2.5 years, and the hormonal moodiness stuff seems to have vanished. (The lack of moodiness could also have to do with the fact that I'm just out of adolescence--things might have just settled down naturally.) I still have bad moods, but I can almost always identify why they happen and most of the time I can fix them by doing the things on this checklist.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

It's so funny how these things are different for different people! I didn't have PMS until about my mid-twenties, and I have to admit I didn't really believe in it... until I experienced it. Suddenly I was in tears because I couldn't open the car door with groceries in both hands, and I realized, oh wow, yeah, this is hormonal.

[bookishfellow.livejournal.com]

You know, with minimal editing, this list could turn into a marketable poster/t-shirt/what-have-you. Just sayin'.

[linaelyn.livejournal.com]

THIS IS TRUTH.

Estel and I have a shorthand for this list, actually. It's remarkably similar. It goes: Sleep is fun. Food helps. Grooming is important. When all else fails, go play in the sunshine. Remember, emotions are transient.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

That's awesome, but you left out the pants!

[linaelyn.livejournal.com]

See, there's always room for improvement in the next iteration! You have given me a new list-item!

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

[linaelyn.livejournal.com]

That. Was. AWESOME.

PANTS.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

JoCo FTW.

[nubianamy.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, ditto! Who is this guy?? Tom says: "That was odd. And pants."

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Jonathan Coulton! If you don't know of him, youtube "Code Monkey," "Re: Your Brains," and "First of May" (that last one should not be played within hearing of the kiddies). I was a production assistant on his concert DVD--it was pretty frickin' awesome.

[rubrick.livejournal.com]

Hey, I think I was at that show. I'll bet one of those "Arrr"s was mine. :-) (That wasn't the one you assisted on, right? I saw him in the same venue some time earlier, and he already had the Pants Machine, or whatever he calls it. This clip sounded like the show I was at, but it's hard to be sure.)

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

*checks* Yep, this vid was uploaded before the DVD concert. Okay, I wasn't at this one, then.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

PANTS.

(I was a few feet to the left of the stage in that video.)

[nubianamy.livejournal.com]

Ahh, you are wise. I will refer to this post from now on when I am feeling grumpy, and I am guessing #1, #2 and #4 are getting major airplay in my life.