{"id":1239,"date":"2012-07-26T15:23:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T19:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/micheleantionette.com\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2018-03-27T04:17:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T04:17:59","slug":"i-play-to-relax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/2012\/07\/26\/i-play-to-relax\/","title":{"rendered":"I Play to Relax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately everything has been so pressured and rushed that I can&#8217;t wait to get away from work and get home to my own little sanctuary. But I have been so stressed out that even after I get home my mind is racing and I am distracted with things that have to do with work instead of focusing on my dinner and whatever movie happens to be on cable that night. And then when I go to bed, I can&#8217;t seem to fall asleep.\u00a0 I just stare at the ceiling and worry about things.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not good and it has been going on for about a week. I love my job, but I need to find a way to close off what goes on at work and decompress. I need to have some fun and relax. I used to call that &#8220;recharging my batteries,&#8221; so that when I wake up each morning I feel energized (pun intended!) and ready to face the day. So I decided to do something less passive than sitting on the couch watching a movie. I am going to start doing something that forces me to engage my mind and focus. I think I found the perfect way to do that: online games.<\/p>\n<p>I have a laptop at home and I can sit on the couch, get online, and play a few rhands of Hearts. That would be so much more relaxing than watching those awful TV shows and movies that I&#8217;ve already seen a few times. Every game is different and fun when you have new online opponents from all over the world. I log in and join a game and the next thing you know I am not thinking about work or problems anymore. I am just having a few minutes of fun.<\/p>\n<p>I have tried that for the past 2 nights after work and I have found myself falling asleep right away instead of laying awake and trying to count sheep. What a difference a good nights sleep can make in how you greet the day and handle all the little annoyances that crop up. The key to a better attitude is making some play time for yourself and having some fun.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately everything has been so pressured and rushed that I can&#8217;t wait to get away from work and get home to my own little sanctuary. But I have been so stressed out that even after I get home my mind is racing and I am distracted with things that have to do with work instead &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/2012\/07\/26\/i-play-to-relax\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Play to Relax&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,13],"tags":[62,63,53],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-entertainment","category-lifelove","tag-game","tag-relax","tag-sleep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1304,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}