Holiday Stress and the Internet
Are you like me, one of those people who dread that trip to the mall to "enjoy" the holiday crush of people trying to get those last-minute holiday chores or purchases put on your "finished" list? Holidays are great and I really like the lights and the songs and the togetherness it brings, but I don't like the frenzy that often goes with it.
I spoke to a woman in a shipping service the other day and she was just enjoying a few minutes to catch her breath before the next wave of packages came her way. Seems people not only endure the holiday mall rush, they then have to lug the package over to this facility where they have to make out yet more forms and hope it will get to its destination on time.
There is one way you can cut down on all this holiday stress and it's called the internet. Do you shop online? I do and it has saved me not only trying to go to more stores than I care to when looking for an item or a price, it has saved me time and frustration. I know I'm not alone because internet shopping has become a great new tradition.
For those of us who are short on time, the pressure to get our shopping done adds yet another layer of stress. How much easier to sit at the computer, look at a few websites after doing a search on one of those shopping comparison sites and then zip to the sites. Saves time, compares all the prices and they promise, in many cases, to do the shipping for you at little or even no extra cost and get it there on time for the holiday.
One extra thought: the internet also saves on gas and that's something we can all appreciate now that the price of gasoline is going up again.
Have a Wonderful Holiday.
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I spoke to a woman in a shipping service the other day and she was just enjoying a few minutes to catch her breath before the next wave of packages came her way. Seems people not only endure the holiday mall rush, they then have to lug the package over to this facility where they have to make out yet more forms and hope it will get to its destination on time.
There is one way you can cut down on all this holiday stress and it's called the internet. Do you shop online? I do and it has saved me not only trying to go to more stores than I care to when looking for an item or a price, it has saved me time and frustration. I know I'm not alone because internet shopping has become a great new tradition.
For those of us who are short on time, the pressure to get our shopping done adds yet another layer of stress. How much easier to sit at the computer, look at a few websites after doing a search on one of those shopping comparison sites and then zip to the sites. Saves time, compares all the prices and they promise, in many cases, to do the shipping for you at little or even no extra cost and get it there on time for the holiday.
One extra thought: the internet also saves on gas and that's something we can all appreciate now that the price of gasoline is going up again.
Have a Wonderful Holiday.
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5 Comments:
I've done that this year as well living in Montana and have left in our "holiday tip basket" we have as giveaways to our guests that tip as well
Thanks
GP in Montana
Happy Holidays, Dr. Farrell!
Yes! I just discovered internet shoppinig this year--I never fully trusted it before, but decided to just take the plunge. I shopped early, the weekend of Thanksgiving and bought almost everything I wanted (including a set of cozy flannel sheets for me!). They came in plenty of time for me to get them wrapped and shipped across the country to their distination.
Shopping online was not peaceful: no parking problems, no long lines, no walking for hours 'in search of'..., no lugging packages home.
Then, when I felt like it, and with the pressure of buying off, I can go out and enjoy being in the midst of things for a while and enjoy things like personal contact with shopkeepers and exchanging holiday well-wishes with them.
Merry Christmas to you!
Tasker
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Shopping online WAS peaceful!
:o)
someone please help me. about a year ago i was a healthy normal 17 year old. i was almost 5'7" and between 115 and 120 lbs. i looked good i was long a lean with a butt. suddenly i dropped so much weight i am now struggling to keep above 103. i try and eat i try and work out. im sick of looking like this....maybe its stress i dont know....i feel nausea, moodiness, and i somehow think every part of my body has shrunk...some shoes dont fit and weirdly im shorter....someone help me i want to gain weight i want to be healthy.
Trust in a Medical Setting.
Most encounters of doctors and other medical providers with patients and families are relatively brief. On an Acute Rehabilitation Unit, a patient’s length of stay is longer, averaging about two weeks. Difficulties managing patients and their families must be dealt with on the spot and don’t go away. Distrustful and difficult individuals make up a small per cent of patients and family members but may take up 90 per cent of energy in coping with day-to-day conflicts that arise from their behavior.
Examples come from office experiences or wards, including situations that keep doctors and nurses and therapists awake at night, aggravate waking hours, that is, empirical, based upon experience and observation alone without science or theory. To survive an outrageous patient or relative requires resourcefulness, patience and imagination. Street wisdom learned the hard way is what I present, and without a guide or mentor to soften the bewilderment and sense of failure and frustration that accompanies these individuals. We seldom talk about these difficult, distrustful and sometimes threatening individuals amongst ourselves; rather we suffer and endure them unnecessarily by ourselves. The problem is timeless as recorded in the world’s literature.
Out of the wreckage of human behavior comes valued experience leading to maneuvers and tactics of survival that are appropriate to almost all aspects and settings of human interaction.
Hauppauge, NY: Novinka Books, Nova Science Publishers, 2006.
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