What do I do to get out of a funk?

Hello blog readers,

So what do I do to get myself out of a funk?
Well there are a couple of things I do...

1. I take a bath 

 Take a long luxurious bath- personally I'm a shower a person but every now and then a shower is needed to relieve the extra stresses of the day. I make them hot and I pop in a LUSH bathbomb to get me calm and relaxed. I love Pheonix rising for this - a lovely cinnamon apple bath bomb sure to make the water slightly sparkly and purple.

http://www.lush.ca/Phoenix-Rising/03575,en_CA,pd.html

I also love using Cinders - a Holiday bath bomb- that's a little spicy and great for sore muscles. Not to mention the popping candy in it gives you that cozy fireplace feeling

http://www.lush.ca/Cinders/02911,en_CA,pd.html?start=1&q=cinders

  
      2. I crack open a great book
I don't really have comfort foods - but I definitely have comfort books. They're the ones I've read so many times that the spine has cracked- no matter how hard I tried not too. I love Garth Nix's Sabriel series.
It's a series that that combines Old England and a Medieval Magical England, the story itself is about a girl who's father is a Necromancer- but not an evil one like the rest in the books... but one who lays the dead to rest.

I also love anything by Laurell K Hamilton - she is one of my two favourtie authors. I really enjoy Nightseerer, her debut novel, the Anita Blake series - Incubus Dreams is a top one and of course her the other series - Merry Gentry. I don't know what about them makes me feel better but they do. In all of these stories the lead character is a strong female that doesn't like compromising her morals. Anita is a zombie raiser and vampire hunter trying to find her way through love and life. Merry a mortal fairy princess trying to stay alive in a world that's against her from the start, while protecting those she loves. And in Nightseerer Keleios is an elf marked by a demon who eventually tries to find her again.

     3. Watch a great movie
Disney, romantic-comedies, horror doesn't matter - just watch you favourite movie and sit back a chill for an hour or two.
Personally I pop in Howl's Moving Castle (best movie ever!!!)
It's a  Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli movie and it's cute, magical and very well done. I loved the book - and I loved the movie.
Or when it comes out ... something like Pitch Perfect.
Anything that makes you want to laugh or smile.

     4. Dress in bright colours and get out of the house, call up your friends and ask them to go somewhere fun. Bowling, laser tag, a bonfire.
Because honestly sometimes you're just in a funk because you have a little bit of cabin fever.
And bright clothes, awesome friends and some fn relaxation can do wonders for you and your brain.

Till next time
-Arielle