Time for a Clementine

Life has been a tad stressful lately. Work has been bustling, crazy busy. It's  the kind of week where I have a million things to do, and they all have to be done at the same time.  Yesterday, I never took the time to stop and heat up my lunch (though I did eat all of my snacks). In other words, my current location is stress-city.

However, today in the midst of the stress and busyness, I was feeling hungry. Actual hunger, not just "hmm, I'm kind of bored, wouldn't it be nice to eat something tasty," which is what is usually happening when I say I'm hungry.  I was going to keep plowing through what I needed to do, thinking I would catch a few minutes to grab a bite later, but I stopped and thought, "No. I'm going to take the time to have a clementine."

I liked that rhyme so much that I stopped, peeled and ate two clementines and then decided it sounded like a good blog post.

After all, what does it take to peel a clementine or two?  30 seconds or a minute, tops?  That 30 seconds gave me not just a no-longer-hungry-belly, but some nutrition, some vitamin C, and some breathing room to evaluate what I was working on at that moment and to reevaluate whether or not I needed to be doing it or something more pressing instead.

Luckily, I'm not stressed very often and even when I am, it is not dire stress, not life and death stress. In fact, I feel like I read about stress in magazines and in random online articles more often than I actually feel it.  What about you? Do you get stressed? What stresses you?  How do you deal with it?  May I suggest you take some time for a clementine?  (I think this could be come a new catchphrase. I really do.)