#Stress Free Travel

[freshinkdaily]

Navigating Hawaii Travel Restrictions: A Guide for Stress-Free Journey

Hawaii Travel Restrictions A Guide for Stress Free Journey Hawaii Travel Restrictions A Guide for Stress Free Journey, Embarking on a trip to Hawaii should be an exciting adventure, not a source of stress. This guide aims to provide travelers with a comprehensive understanding of Hawaiian Airlines’ cancellation and flight change policies, group travel tips in Honolulu, and additional information…

[isismonteverde]

Is There Such a Thing as Stress Free Travel?

Whether travelling for business or leisure the process can be stressful and tiring, even if the trip is a much-anticipated one. Business travellers may fret over delayed or cancelled flights, losing their luggage or being out of touch while travelling, resulting in a build-up of everyday tasks that will need to be tackled once the trip is over.

Travelling for a holiday, while exciting, is still likely to cause its own worries. The stress of being confined to a plane, ferry or car can take its toll on the body and mind. However, as life coach Isis Monteverde can confirm, there are ways to reduce stress levels and make the journey as smooth as possible.

Efficient Packing and Planning

Packing sensibly ahead of time can keep worries to a minimum. It’s easy to over-pack and bring too many changes of outfits, taking up unnecessary space in a suitcase and resulting in travellers having to drag too much around with them. If it is a short trip, it’s worth considering packing travel-sized toiletries. It’s also important to check the weather beforehand. If there is a chance of rain, it may be wise to include an umbrella or rain jacket.

Embarking on a trip without a clear itinerary is also likely to induce stress. Setting small deadlines to ensure everything is done ahead of time will help in staying calm.

Allowing Extra Time

It’s crucial to allow extra time when arriving at an airport or planning a long car journey. The process of going through security checks at the airport is time-consuming. Therefore, it’s wise to arrive at the airport with plenty of time to spare. Airlines advise allowing two hours to check in and pass through security. Using this as a guideline will reduce stress levels.

Be Sensible With Food and Drink

Taking care to stay hydrated is important. Long journeys and delays are sometimes unavoidable, but neglecting to drink enough water can make this situation worse. Dehydration can result in headaches and make travellers feel more stressed. Packing snacks is also advisable to stave off hunger until arriving at a destination.

Thinking Positive

It’s all too easy to worry unnecessarily that something will go awry and panic over potential problems. However, thinking through what may go wrong ahead of time and deciding how it could be dealt with can help to calm the nerves. Keeping a positive frame of mind and knowing how to react in certain situations should make travelling a more enjoyable experience.

[michelleberrybliss]

Tips and Tricks for a Stress-Free Trip with Kids

Traveling with kids can be quite a challenge, especially when it comes to air travel. Packing, managing kids’ needs, and making sure they are happy and safe throughout the journey can seem overwhelming. However, with careful planning and a few tips and tricks, you can make air travel with kids stress-free and enjoyable for everyone. Schedule takeoff and departure times wisely: When booking your…

[fullofcake]

I cant wait to live in a place where I can go hiking everyday

Like a tiny adventure for the soul

[batsinurbelfrey]

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[naviculariis]

Today has been a weird day so I am politely asking y'all to comment your favorite headcanons for your main muse/muses please & thank u. I need some serotonin.

[lesbiradshaw]

watching gay period dramas is all fun and games til u remember ur trapped in the closet and start relating a little too much

[mxtxfanatic]

Book of the Week: Ascending, Do Not Disturb

Author: Butterfly's Shadow Beneath the Moon/Yue Xia Die Ying (月下蝶影)

Genre: cultivation, josei

Rating: T

My Synopsis: From the book that inspired this post, meet Kong Hou, the girl who everyone wants to give everything to, and Huan Zhong, the man with the stone-like personality who will have the privilege to give her everything. Grab your snacks and relax as this couple inspire the love and envy of all by treating cultivation like a peaceful pastime and ruin every single plan the evil cultivators have spent centuries putting together! Enjoy this rare story about cultivators sticking to their morals, for once, and not ruining inter-sect relationships with petty drama and paranoia.

My Actual Review: Ok first of all, that synopsis was a fucking lie. A “relaxed cultivation novel” would not have me crying twice (TWICE!) for two separate arcs. Fuck off.

All joking aside, most of the story is pretty relaxed and comedic with only the latter parts carrying some action and a few particular arcs having heavy angst, but there’s a huge payoff in the end. Truly this is another banger story from YXDY, and I expected nothing less. If you haven’t read my authors review for them (linked above), just know that this story contains their typical trademark of underage relationship—this time without the marriage, sex, or pregnancy—but in this novel, they don’t get together til mc is 18. Progress? Idk since the LI is 300+ years-old, but points for trying! This is also the type of cultivation novel where characters will call a 300-year-old a “child” and say that a 16-yo is “too young” to understand romantic love—with full sincerity. Age is very, very relative.

Translation: complete

[frogtossing]

i’m at that point where university is no longer a novelty so i have to put active effort into going there

[spacestation-l7]

ok but imagine a au where damien john and paul all team up together to fight all manner of unholy monsters powerpuff girls style. …the powerpuff priests…

holy hell yesss!!!

I imagine both Damien and John would be "Ah Yes, a Normal Tuesday Morning of My Miserable Life" and Paul would actually have an aneurysm at the thought of exorcising real demons

[kurohaneko]

having to go to sleep earlier when i'm literally chronically ill and experience extreme chronic fatigue that never goes away and that sleeping never cures, and having to conserve energy to do even the most basic of things like brushing my teeth and showering, feeling exhausted, even after sleeping 8-10 hours, and being unable to wake up on my alarms and snoozing them, even when i do get proper sleep, is wrong and a burden.

the reason why i sleep so long now, which is a huge change from my sleep schedule from when i was healthy, where i could literally function just fine eating once a day and on 6 hours of sleep, is because i'm chronically ill, because my body is literally under constant stress and inflammation, because i have poor circulation, because my body is riddled with multiple different symptoms from my illnesses.

being diagnosed with multiple medical issues that affect me daily and having to conserve energy and adapt and accommodate to my body's new needs and changes, especially when i have an important medical procedure for my condition for the first time, and expressing that need to sleep in order to conserve energy for it, because it's going to be a long and stressful day for me, is wrong and a burden.

feeling exhausted and needing to not eat meals late because it always worsens my already awful stomach issues and pain and nausea and flares up the symptoms of my condition every time if i don't, and makes me feel sicker than i already feel every day, is wrong.

it's wrong to have basic human needs and to try to do what you can and work with what you can with your condition to alleviate symptoms as much as possible, even if it's only slightly, because you always demonize and villainize me for it.

i'm supposed to shut up and stay quiet whenever you yell at me and lash out at me, whenever you mistreat me, all for your convenience, and treat me without any basic decency, because i'm not a human being in your eyes, i'm a punching bag for you to take your problems out on, and i always have been.

it's always you saying empty words and never following through with actions. it's always you telling me to "voice your needs and concerns", but i can't so much as even make a basic statement in the calmest way possible about needing to sleep earlier, literally while laying in bed because -- surprise! -- i'm feeling sick and exhausted from my chronic illness! because the literal second i do, you immediately demonize me for it and immediately jump to being hateful and make false accusations towards me every time.

you blame and guilt trip your self proclaimed "best friend" and someone you claim to care about -- someone you've seen firsthand be repeatedly traumatized and grieve the loss of their health and abilities, losing their life and missing out on opportunities and doing the things they love, and losing the abilities to do things they used to do when they were healthy. you've explicitly seen their declining health and seen them experiencing repeated medical trauma for over a year and a half since december 2022, and yet you demonize them.

you demonize someone with a chronic illness, all for saying that they need to sleep and eat earlier for an extremely important procedure -- that i literally fucking FOUGHT tooth and nail to get, and was a literal miracle to even get.

you treat my basic needs as nothing but an inconvenience for you, when i went through repeated medical trauma and invalidation and waited for MONTHS ON END to even get this procedure that will give me more information about my condition and can possibly give me a treatment plan, all while my extremely debilitating flare ups and symptoms have actively progressed and worsened and have wreaked havoc on my body, and new symptoms ones have occured and affected me in the meantime since i've had to wait and beg for the bare minimum fucking scraps of treatment or help while my health rapidly gets worse.

when the multiple other times i've asked to sleep at a decent time, whether you're gaming or not, even within this very week, were all ignored by you, you turn around and have the audacity to shove the blame on me for your own actions and behaviors in snapping at me out of nowhere, and making baseless accusations and guilt tripping statements towards me, all because i did something you specifically asked me to do -- in asking you to set a reminder, and clarifying that i needed to sleep and eat early because it was getting late?

i was feeling exhausted and needed to try to prepare myself for a procedure and travel almost 2 hours when it's a procedure i dread -- but know i have to do to get more information about my illness -- where my sensory issues are overwhelmed and triggered because of my claustrophobia and loud noises, but god forbid i express my needs, the very thing you tell me to do, then punish me for.

the way you treat me is completely warranted and free of criticism, right? you treating me like a punching bag is completely okay for you to do, right?

i know if i gave you the same treatment you shove onto me without any consideration for the face that i'm a living human being with feelings, you would antagonize me to hell and back and tear me apart for it.

you treat me like a goddamn object and punching bag for having basic human needs, and you deliberately always go out of your way to play the victim card in every situation, and twist my need for sleep into something it's not, and ignore me all because i said word for word that i didn't appreciate being treated so hatefully.

because as always, endlessly, for the past almost decade, you have always done this every single time, and you always show that you believe that you can never do anything wrong and are free of faults in any situation where you hurt someone and refuse to ever take accountability.

you reinforce the face that everyone has to be quiet and tolerate your behavior and walk on eggshells for your convenience, otherwise you lash out, demonize, blame, and threaten them, all while you continue to hurt them.

you're hellbent on blaming everyone around you for your own choices and behaviors, you do nothing to change or work on them after people voice their concerns, and you lash out and make everyone suffer for so much as even telling you that your behavior hurts them or makes them uncomfortable, and you demonize them to hell and back if they utter a word about it, because god forbid anyone tells you how you make them feel when you'll vilify and punish them for it.

i'm not allowed to be anything other than a docile doll who never speaks up about anything that bothers her or voices her needs, unless i want to face ableism, guilt trips, being yelled at, being demonized, and being blamed for things out of my control.

i am simply meant to endure the hurtful ways i'm treated and take it all with a smile, for everyone's happiness and convenience.

needing to eat and sleep normally to avoid worsening and flaring up my already debilitating symptoms for a procedure they explicitly knew i had 2 weeks in advance, is wrong and horrible, according to them.

they always treat me like i'm a burden, and treat me like a burden for needing to eat and sleep normally and to have a healthy schedule when i literally need it to function, especially now more than ever with my chronic illnesses and symptoms, because not doing so causes flare ups and makes me feel worse.

i'm a horrible person for being sick and needing the two basic things people literally need to function and survive, especially when i'm literally going to inevitably flare up my symptoms tomorrow and have to prepare for a huge and stressful day of travel and a medical procedure tomorrow.

i should just starve myself and never sleep and die, because it's wrong to even need to do so according to them.

[albtrosz]

i’d be so fucking powerful if i let myself enjoy things

[tanoraqui]

Ask meme can I get a uhhhh Necromancy Thing 3 please.

this is one of those things where a short story idea blooms into a novel idea, and then you gently drop it because you're not really interested in writing that novel, but also, it haunts you as a Cool Premise, and maybe you thought about the magic system so much that you made a chart to explain it when you should've been taking notes in a staff meeting.

Worldbuilding premise is: magic is the manipulation of spirits living or dead, so it's basically just necromancy or what amounts to mind control...or some help with emergency healing, if you need to keep someone alive long enough to sew them up. (Or, rarely, manipulation of non-sentient living things or even inanimate objects, which teeechnically have spirits as well, but that takes so much power that it's basically impossible.)

Plot premise is: a new "witch" (wise woman/healer) has moved into the hut in the woods near Teen Main Character's rural town. TMC either figures out that she's secretly a necromancer or just that she's more interesting than anyone else here and begs an apprenticeship...but before she can start, royal soldiers come to arrest the witch, or at least to take her back to the capital city, because she is a) definitely a necromancer, in fact, supposed to be the Royal Necromancer ie royal healer and emergency military resource but we don't admit that, and also she's a princess, younger sister of the crown prince.

And! Tensions are high in this country for some reason, and the soldiers are dicks, and there's the start of a fight between the locals and the soldiers and TMC is killed!...very briefly. Because Princess-Witch/Necromancer brings her back before anyone can notice! And then is like, "Fine, I'll go, but I'm bringing my apprentice" (and to TMC: "You have to stay close to me or I can't keep you bound to your body.") (Her body is dead, this magic system doesn't do full resurrection. But it won't rot or anything while her spirit is tied to it.)

Partly the princess did this out of "this was my fault" guilt, and mostly she did it out of ruthless practical "I ran away for good reason (notably: my brother is a dick) but if this Nice Young Woman dies it could spark serious civil unrest and I don't want that."

So now TMC gets to have all the adventure she dreamed of (except maybe not this much of it), learning magic and dealing with deadly politics (except she's already dead and nobody must know) in the royal palace! By the way, "Royal Necromancer" is an old title but as of a few generations ago when this family defeated the previous ruler, a classic Evil Lich King, the Royal Necromancer in conjunction somehow with hte bearer of the crown is responsible for keeping subdued the giant army of skeletons which their great-great-grandparents didn't destroy so much as...weaken and bury. Possibly the crown prince wants to raise them and get conquesting? Which is why the princess ran away? Except, note, that didn't actually solve the problem even if she hadn't been found. Their mother the Queen is old and ill/dying, ofc.

By the end of the book, TMC can necromance well enough to keep her own spirit bound to her undying body, which technically speaking makes her a potentially-immortal lich. It's fine. Also, her less adventurous best friend from home showed up at some point with plans to rescue her from whatever she'd gotten herself into and they would've kissed but TMC is ace (with aceness exacerbated by being dead), so instead they just cuddled and defeated a giant skeleton army together. Idk what happened to the throne.

I wrote about 5 pages of a first chapter and then stopped. But man, now I'm looking at my erratically maintained list of original plot bunnies and feeling some itch... There are short stories here that I could probably write...

Shoutout to the multiple fantasy worlds, classic and modern, for which I have thorough magic system worldbuilding and the barest concept of a plot. I could do an ask meme about just those.

[mityenka]

liberals when someone from west germany has a nuanced view of the gdr: how dare you romanticize this brutal dictatorship!! go listen to someone from east germany who actually lived through this horrible authoritarian regime!!!

liberals when two thirds of east germans actually feel nostalgic towards the gdr and one fourth of east germans feel like their life got worse after the fall of the berlin wall: those backwards east germans are still brainwashed into authoritarianism, we should just rebuild the wall if they like it so much, they were simply not made for democratic participation

[daiseukiis]

hii how have you been?

i miss my family 🧍‍♀️