Thanksgiving Blues

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Right now, I have two major matters on my plate. The first is all of the school work that I have in the coming weeks with thanksgiving break this week and finals week during the second week of december. This would be relatively easy to deal with were it not for what I fear will happen over break. My mom and dad will be going out to western michigan to visit with family. Unfortunately, I still live with them due to economic reasons and the extended family I will be visiting has four kids all under the age of 10. Needless to say this would be very taxing on my sanity. We did the same last year and I wound up spending the entire break cooped up in the house. I came back to college with my sanity hanging by a thread. As it stands, it looks like things will be the same way this year. I was able to get a prescription for clonopin but I probably will not be able to see how it effects me until I have to drive there on wednesday. I don't see any way out of this oppressive situation other then locking myself in the basement with the best pair of shooting ear muffs that money can buy. Any feasible advice to survive this would be appreciated.

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Kidding

Do everything you possibly can to calm yourself down. In my case, I'd eat steak and cheese subs every meal I could get them. But I don't know what would work for you. Walking works for me, too. It seems to burn off stress. I'm sure you can come up with your own list.

Also, have you ever tried Rescue Remedy? It is available in natural food shops, isn't that expensive, and if it doesn't work for you it shouldn't have a bad effect - unless you just can't stand the taste, which is a vaguely floral, generic candy type taste.

And, definitely, the ear protectors. No matter what, you're going to need those. If you absolutely can't get away with wearing something that obvious, what about this? Put the best ear plugs you can find in, then, as a visual "explanation", stick in ear buds connected to an iPod.

Is there anywhere I could get those in bulk?

Hm, that might work. I can't hear anything higher then 17kHz and I have a dog whistle app on my ipod touch that can put out sounds from 80 Hz to 20kHz. I'll just have to set it to 18kHz.

My dad used a marter alarm for chasing of cats who chewed his cables under his motorcycle which pitched on a level I could hear, gave me headaches.

According to my father they aren't that expensive.



Good luck with keeping the children at bay .

Could you go back home 'early,' like on Friday or Saturday? That is, have a visit that's short and sweet.

Since we'll be going in one car, I go home when they do, which most likely is sunday. Since we'll be leaving wednesday, that equals 3.5 days of hell.

Volunteer to housesit? It might work, especially if they have pets...