QOTW 6/11

If you feel agitated is there a routine that you go though to calm down?

There's a couple, actually.

If I'm at work, I step off of the unit and leave to walk around the building a couple of times. Mostly I do this when I become incredibly agitated--to the point of pissed off beyond recognition. It's rare that it happens at work--but it does at times. I leave the floor cuz the odds are I'm going to get tearful....that's what happens when I'm pissed off beyond recognition.....LOL.....I cry and I don't want any witnesses, thanksverymuch! LOL
Then--I surrender....

The REST of the time--I surrender. Yep, it's that third step prayer that I recite.
I try it in my head and sometimes that's enough.
Afraid to say--sometimes that's NOT enough and I'm excusing myself to the bathroom where I hit my KNEES and surrender again.
I go back to try to be civil.....and if I still can't do it--either I go BACK to the bathroom to surrender of.......(no laughing please) I get on my knees in front of G-d and everyone right where I am and I surrender AGAIN. Yes, I know...not a pretty sight! LOL I've had lots of practice surrendering in front of waitresses and a room full of dining people. Humility isn't bad for me......it hasn't killed me yet.

BTW--last Wednesday during my 'leadership meeting' (which is done over lunch) I went with a pissy attitude cuz I'd let myself get agitated over the darndest things. I tried in my head......I tried outside by my car, on my knees. LOL And I'll be go to heck--I ended up on my knees, by the table....with the waitress walking around me taking orders. LOL
She didn't need my order--I order the same thing every Wednesday and she knows it by heart.

Yep--third step prayer.
Surrender, surrender, surrender! LOL