Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 06, 2022

I’ve had a few of those. Thankfully, there were no casualties.

I can advise on a cure but the GC censors may not approve.

Defusing is easy. Undefusing is the hard part.

Stop swiping social media and news feeds.

That’s why people do their drinking in the evening.

Prayer helps, it really does!

Amen.

Quit reviewing the day at the end of it.

Me only worry is if me get to eats enough foods the next day.

Poor Stephan. He seems to be going through a rough time.

There’s nothing to be done but get up. Go to the refrigerator and make an enormous 7-layer Dagwood sandwich. Milk, if you like. I prefer the satisfying BELCH !!! of a cold lager.

Nancy White: Free Floating Anxiety (the solution is at the end.):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV0kYQoivJQ

It can, but the cure is worse than the disease.

Maybe -

It can certainly be CONfused

and from the all appearances on SM, when God passed them out, many were REfused

Been there, stinks!

Good word, I’ll have to remember that.

not that I know of.

Don’t sweat the small stuff. Just remember that it’s all small stuff. Also, don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things. ;-p

Very much me at this moment.

No known cure? I’d beg to differ.

“Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

-Jesus, Matthew 11:29, 30

Is a worry bomb better or worse than an earworm?

One of my best wishes for mankind is for mankind to only use “religion” for personal help and growth.

I think that bomb has detonated many times in my head.

I don’t have this problem often, but when I do, I read my GoComics at midnight. That helps burn off time that I would have used, regardless, in the morning.

I hate it when that happens. And I really hate it when I have to get up in the middle of the night and then the worrybomb goes off when I’m trying to get back to sleep.

Or when you wake at 2 a.m.

It is not the worry that usually gets me but the random thoughts. The other night my brain decided to go through entire periodic table, alphabetically. First by name then by symbol. How do you turn that off!?

“When I’m worried and I can’t sleep / I count my blessings instead of sheep / And I fall asleep counting my blessings.

“When my bankroll is getting small / I think of when I had none at all / And I fall asleep counting my blessings.” From the movie White Christmas; music and lyrics by Irving Berlin (1954).

I have one of those when I wake up in the morning.

That’s me.

Back in my working / engineering days, solutions to tough problems were solved somehow by my brain during a night’s sleep. Many years before, Alfred E. Neuman taught me that.

Hey, pigs have reason to worry. It hard to forget the smell of bacon cooking.

My worry-bombs are thinking about all the things that I need to get done. Then I can’t sleep and am too tired the next day to get everything done that I needed to get done. Then I try to sleep but …YIKES!

The other day, I kept waking up thinking I forgot something specific I had already finished! Best feeling EVER.

Thou art God.

OMG You nailed it!!! This is going on my headboard!

Scotch helps.

You were defused years ago, Pig.

My shields are holding strong against worrybombs. I fall asleep if anything too easily once I lie down….

Meditation and other forms of guided relaxation help a lot. Or at least I have found this to be the case. Simply slowing your breathing rate (down to under 10 breaths per minute)can have a profound relaxation effect.

Lobotomy.

I tend to listen to boring youtube audiobooks and lectures in bed to keep my brain occupied as I fall asleep.