Stress relievers

The biggest source of stress for me in retirement so far seems to be the absence of stress.  I worry that I am not worrying about things -- am I missing something?  (Given my proclivity for worry, that is not surprising.  So my nature creates things for me to worry about.  Then I have to ask the Lord to forgive me for my disobedience to Matthew 6:31-34 and Philippians 4:6.)

In 1999, my daughter sent me a list of 66 sayings that should be on buttons, with the remark, "I think some of these would make great stress relievers."  I found 45 of them on a web site for the Freeman Institute

Here are my favorites:

• Therapy is expensive, poppin' bubble wrap is cheap! You choose.
• Practice random acts of intelligence & senseless acts of self-control.
• Does your train of thought have a caboose?
• Suburbia: where they tear out the trees & then name streets after them.
• A cubicle is just a padded cell without a door.
• Ambivalent? Well, yes and no.
• I refuse to star in your melodrama.
• How do I set a laser printer to stun?
• Meandering to a different drummer.
• I'm not tense, just terribly, terribly alert.

Doing this humor blog gives me something to do, relieving my stress from a stress-free lifestyle.  It's like one other item on Elissa's button list:  "A PBS mind in an MTV world."  That's me, I guess.