Ask the Audience: What Do You Do to Get Out of a Funk?

Project 365, Day 54

Today will be a short post, because mentally, as the title suggests, I’m in a funk. It’s a very short-lived (I hope) funk. Maybe I just have a case of the Mondays. I saw a meme the other day that said something along the lines of “2020/2021 has been one long Monday” and I FELT that. After dinner, which turned out to be a bit of a mess (how is rice both overcooked and mushy, and undercooked and crunchy all at once?), Charles and I settled in to watch some more Modern Family. The remote control was near me, and I kept finding myself grabbing it to pause the show, and tear into a monologue about how today felt. A few minutes would pass, pause would go the show, and “AND ANOTHER THING” I’d go. My poor Charles…except he loves to talk, so…poor him NOTHING.

I also do not want to underestimate how emotionally draining and traumatic the last year has been for everyone. I can sometimes shut that off in my brain, not factoring that in when I have a bad day.

Anyhow, before I launch into a further dissection that will turn into a woe-is-me essay I never intended on writing…that surely no one wants to actually read, I’d rather turn the floor over to you dear readers and ask you:

What nearly fail-proof things do you do to get out of a mental funk/bad mood?

I have some of my own—like doing my normal Tuesday gratitudes—but I was in that place emotionally where I didn’t even want to try those things…does that ever happen to you?

Hopefully, by the time I read your comments tomorrow, I’ll be in a great mood, elbow deep in my second batch of chickpea cookie dough (I can’t be stopped), and we’ll chit chat down there and spread some cheer and give anyone who might be in a funk of their own some great ideas…throw them a rope, so to speak.

Take it away… (and see you tomorrow, friends).