Brain reset

[mrissa]

Here's what I tried to get my brain out of its previous bad rut:

--writing to Grandpa L. as specified (this is markgritter's maternal grandfather, technically, but there's a point with each in-law where you shift from thinking of them as the other person's to thinking of them as yours -- at least ideally there is -- and with Grandpa Lyzenga and me, that took about 3.2 seconds, and he is just the very most you could ever ask a Grandpa Lyzenga to be)
--cleaning up a bit of my desk mess, which is there because I hate desk mess and will therefore deal with things put on my desk to drive me nuts
--working out
--reading a little of Blood and Iron, then stopping because getting all wrapped up in someone else's book wasn't really the point here
--drinking water
--showering
--drinking more water and taking an Advil
--playing with the dog
--putting on music
--putting on different music, and that finally did it -- thanks, markiv1111 (and thanks dd_b for being my supplier). Don't know why "The First Overnight Guest" did it, but there it was, "There's a chance of rain but no real chance of rest," and my brain went click click whirrrrr...and then it was behaving sensibly again.

And now I'm in late-afternoon crash and have learned not to beat myself up if I'm not useful for an hour or two, because I am definitely a morning person and sometimes an evening person, but what I am not is an afternoon person.

What are your favorite brain-reset tricks?

Comments

[mattgritter.livejournal.com]

1) Pick up guitar
2) Play chords that are in my head
3) Realize I've been playing for more than an hour already
4) Switch to violin playing or Get back to what I'm suppose to be doing

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

!!!!

When did you pick up violin? Has this been going on awhile and I just missed it somehow?

[mattgritter.livejournal.com]

I bought a cheapy violin last summer, it was I believe, and haven't made any progress playing it as of yet, most out of fear of the sounds it makes and partiality to the instrument I can already play.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I can understand this -- poorly played violin is up there with poorly played banjo in the category of abominations against wave mechanics -- but still, as long as you have one and all!

I promise not to start buying you cutesy wall-hangings featuring violins and roses. Still. Cool.