Buff your brain

Happy Mental Health Awareness Day! I personally think Thanksgiving is the ultimate mental health day. What better way to raise your spirits than to pump your body full of tryptophan and lay on the couch with all your friends and family? But I guess we can always use a backup day, especially for people who don't do Thanksgiving (poor bastards). My sister Zoe gets 2 of them because she's an American in Canada. Maybe a kiwi should steal one of those off of her. C'mon Zoe, you won't mind right?

In honor of today, do something like:

Play with your kids.

Rub someone's back or feet.

Do something extra special with your hair or teeth.

Eat some fruit (maybe in a sexy way?).

Take a bath.

Talk about a book or movie you love with someone trying to find something to watch or read.

Wear a bright color that makes you feel good, just a scarf or handkerchief if that's all you can muster.

Hold a stretch you love for a minute.

Dance around inside your shoes at work.

Call your parents.

Buy someone flowers or a cute pen or an eraser that smells nice.

Sign up for a new dance/art/philosophy class you've been thinking about trying.

Sit still and alone for 10 minutes. Don't try not to think, but don't force yourself to accomplish anything.

Find a park bench you've never sat on before. Try it out, maybe it's a power spot for you.

Call me and tell me why you think you're great, I love that shit. I can throw in enthusiastic comments if you need it.

If you don't feel like doing any of that and just wanna lay in bed all day, that's ok, John Lennon did it for a week for world peace. Maybe you can do that too. If lying in bed becomes a mission, you are guilt free!

If you don't even wanna do that, call me up and say, "Fuck You Vanessa!" Get in your bare minimum of human contact.

Fish are nice, they lower blood pressure. If you're lonely and commitment-phobic, why not a fish? Maybe not a large fish and a small fish, I've heard that can be disastrous :)

Love,
Vanessa