Stress Relief

Stress Relief ©

By

Michael Casey

First of SHUT UP and GO TO BED. That’s the best piece of advice you will ever get. Having enough sleep is vital,you cannot perform if you are too tired to think straight. So go to bed right now and in the morning come back and read the rest of this. Or go and have sex with your lover then go to sleep.In the morning you’ll be in a better frame or mind.

When I was a hotel worker and the evening crush was on those 2 or 3 hours really flew. But the thing is you have to deal with one person at a time. Look around the crowd and smile before returning to the guest in front of you. Don’t worry, and actual fact slow down a littler, then you will make any mistakes, which waste time. Keep on smiling and then get to the next guest. And yes I speak from experience, I worked on Reception in addition to the 10 other roles I did at CPNEC Birmingham 2002 to 2005.

Love your work mates, don’t fight against them, you are a team even if you do 90% of the work, without the other 10% the task would not be done. And get the idea out of your head that you hate the team, if things are that bad, THEN LEAVE, and set up your own company. Then you will know the meaning of stress. So you also need to be HONEST with yourself, and know your LIMITATIONS.

If you think you should be a model and not just the makeup girl then make a video and show it to the other models, if you they are kind they may encourage you. Remember too the STRESS of being perfect all the time and think could  you put up with newspapers sneaking up on you when you are out walking the dog, or kicking the boyfriend out of the house at 3am.

Stress takes many forms, but the stress you put on yourself can be the worst. So stop and THINK for 5 seconds before you scream at your driver, or bus driver if you are at the poor end of the scale. Having a 5 second pause in your life before you do anything maybe the simplest thing you ever do, but it will bring the greatest benefits.

In today’s Twitter world, it’s Ping v Pong at breakneck speed and I’ve seen firsthand just how fast table tennis can be. By checking things, especially when you have no time to check, you’re too busy to do this or too busy to do that, by pausing you will stop stress before it even happens.

Snappy answers to Stupid Questions was a MAD magazine book back in the 1960s, I know I read it at the time. My point is thought that we all can be too uptight, stop and smell the roses, have a Stella Artois or too. Oggle that boy or girl, let your imagination take you away from the maths (MC=4C) problem that was causing you so much stress.

Though in today’s Me Too world perhaps I should should say glance out the window and enjoy the colours on display in the flower bed, which may be Jim’s red pants on display below his low hanging jeans. But that’s enough to set your heart aflutter, and his smile and the way he brushes his hair out of his eyes, just looking at him is perfect stress relief. SIGH. Instead all you have to relieve you stress our those really irritating photos Michael Casey attaches to his writing. He’s as sexy as Donald Trump wall.

Diverting yourself away from your problem, your STRESS, does work as stress relief. Can you remember what you were supposed to do before you started to read this. Somewhere in Libya today somebody is reading 300 and Not Out in Arabic on my Wordpress site, do you imagine that is Stress relief for them. Though probably it’s a punishment, you have to read Michael Casey now, can you imagine just how stressed out they now are. Their eyes wild and bewildered.

Help I’ve been Michaeled, all their friends sake a step back and maybe point their guns. I mean I’ve been Michael Caseyed, so the safety catch is put back on the guns. Hey man when you said your were Michaeled we thought,he whispers in his ear, the other men laugh. NO, I’ve been reading Michael Casey, we should tell our Arab cousins, then they can all be Michaeled, or rather Michael Caseyed.

And for the rest of the non Arab audience perhaps I should explain as I am Michael Casey. Gill would no doubt explain too as she descends from her camel, just like Sam in Sex and the City film. To be Michaeled means to be led deep into the desert, out of site of all the cities, past the waterhole. Then deep into a sand storm, and just as you think you will die in the desert and you are saying Michael Casey you are little more than what comes from a camel’s backside, but not as useful.

Then and only then will I remove your blindfold, to reveal you are still standing next to the swimming pool. A fan, a few handfuls of desert sand was all I needed to transport you away from your most stressful day. You thought the idiot Michael Casey had abandoned you in the desert. No I’d just Michaeled you, I’d sent your imagination a million miles away from your stress. If you can remember what you were doing before you started to read this then I am something from the back end of a camel, but not as useful. IF however your stress has been relieved then feel free to reward me.

Thanks to all my Arab readers in Libya and UAE too and all other places in the middle, Middle East. This piece has relieved my own stress too, by writing about stress, and that sounds very Irish, but as I’ve told you before my family is Irish. Ireland the home of Stories.

   

thank you Ukraine and Japan for passing by today

I had a rest today, so just silly photo on offer. Glad Ukraine found Russian translation plus file of
The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker on my wordpress site.
Our central heating guy is Ukrainian by the way.

Hello to Japan too for passing by

Japan could create Apps and  cartoons using my material,

 even as part of your University course in Gaming

so do get in touch I need money for my retirement, which has already started early.

Our cat is called Totoro after all.

So Japan JPOP get in touch and sing for my supper.

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Caption Competition

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well if an egg beat the Kardasians how about putting this all over Instagram, obviously
I’m not on it myself. So for the sake of
The Fat Silver Haired Writer in Shades from Birmingham England
you can post it on my behalf.
The prize is another photo, yes very cheesy I know.
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Valentine Poem, ready to impress

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Michael G Casey email michaelgcasey@hotmail.com

well Valentines is approaching so copy this down, or Translate into your Native Language  then  copy in your own handwriting onto thick paper, then roll up and tie with a ribbon. Give it to your girl and the rest is up to you. enjoy

Michael or Michaela is a good name to use in 9 months time.

By the Way Happy Chinese New Year to my Shanghai family and all Chinese everywhere, just hand me food if you see me in the street.

      Michael G Casey email michaelgcasey@hotmail.com  

                   Michael G Casey email michaelgcasey@hotmail.com  

              You're Never Alone When You Are in Love ©

                               By

      

                         Michael Casey

       Love is being together , Love is a smile , a Look , A Touch

       Or Just A Sigh , Not really knowing why you chose one another .

       Yet Together Till You Die

       

       Love is a Kiss soft and gentle on the cheek which warms your

       heart and makes you glad you chose one another .

       A Kiss can lead to more but I'll leave Passion locked Safely

       behind a bedroom door

       Passion spent you'll not give up each not even for Lent .

       You'll just lie in warm embrace and remember you forgot to say

       grace .

       Whispers and Promises are made , plans for the future and if

      she put her hair this way , Do you think it would suit her ?

      Then giggles and more embraces ,  Till the Night is over and with  

      a dig in the ribs you make him move over .

      Then your oneness complete , you have to put up with his cold feet !

      But when you are apart your hearts are still one ,

     Thought half is  absent you are still one .

      His socks under the bed , and after what you said .

      His  "toys" scattered about ,  and the clout you'll  give  when  he

      returns and the warmth of your body he yearns .

      His cold feet to chill you after he thrills you , are absent yet the

      thought makes you smile , at least you have the comfort for  a while.

      His grins and leers ,  which makes you smile at least  you'll  have

      peace for a while .

      But his heart is still with you , the love is always there - as

      bright as your fair hair .

      Close your eyes and he is still there ,  Remember the embrace as  

      he played his fingers across your face .

      Let your dreams go and remember the whispers in your ear, warm

      kisses on your shoulder before he gets bolder . The warmth of love

      that soars through your blood .

      Dream long , Dream deep , your Man toils while you sleep, though

      you are apart you are still together whatever the weather , for you

      are never apart for he is  locked in your heart .

      Though sometimes he can be trying , there's Never any need of

   

      crying for your love is Undying.

      Always remember he fills your heart even when you are apart

                        End

                            

                

where it all began essay

Where it all Began ©

By

Michael Casey

As ever I begin with a blank page, I’ve not decided what to talk about today, though I did post a photo from the old house to show you my humble beginnings as a writer. I’m still writing over 30 years later, and if you Google image search the computer savvy amongst you will find more pictures, you may even spot me stood outside the old house, which is for sale by the way. So Barron Trump there’s a challenge for you. By the way my own brother was so very tall from a young age, so in that regard you remind me of him.

I’m still waiting to be discovered by a main line publisher. Maybe only those doing a main line of powder discover me, as they are in a haze and mistype a search. Beginnings are strange, they can happen by accident or they can be planned, or come out of a bottle. The old saying that more babies are born out of a bottle, or people having too much to drink then regretting it later, 9 months later. Though the idea of charts and making love to a calendar seems horrendous to me. Do you have to clock in and clock out and follow a shift pattern, and then do multiple unpaid overtime just to have that baby. You don’t have to be John and Yoko either, let Nature be your guide.

What about In the Beginning, was God just fooling around in the dark looking for the light switch, did he bang his toe and scream Let there be Light. Or was the Big Bang when God escaped from a trunk of nothingness like Houdini, and everything began. So Light came into existence. You can get kids at Art class, or just small kids with crayons to draw a picture, it would look very 70s glam rock with flashes and stripes.Perhaps Mike Pence’s wife is doing that right now. Though Gaga has condemned her, God would no doubt be crying on the sidelines. Why can’t my kids just get on. I am for everybody, like air and water. Which is my opinion too, I agree with God, he is for everybody. And if he isn’t I wouldn’t want to have nothing to do with him. Now immediately 1/2 of  you hate me. I think I’ll just get blind drunk with Mike Pence and puke all over Trump, live on tv.

The Simpsons will no doubt use that idea, Pence and me puking all over Trump, will that be the way to save America? As Churchill said       

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdRH5wzCQQw

I let the History student in me take over.

What of other beginnings? The same broken barn chair I sat on to write The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker was the one I wrote my application letter for a computer job 10 years previously. I only just remembered that an instance ago. It was also the chair my mother stood on to wash the windows outside and the one she sat on while she did the washing up. Now it may be 50 years old, but sadly it has been lost when we moved house.

My brother said try computers so I did and the rest is History as they say, I’ve used computers for 41 years now. Then a disc drive was as big as a washing machine and vibrated just as much. DEC PDP 1170s were the computers I started on, go Google, you could even sleep on them they were so big. It was a new beginning and a new life.

Shift working is a brave new world, as is the discipline needed to turn up on time. 8am, Noon, 10.30pm those were just some of my regular start times. You need to be organised or you’ll miss the bus, then you have to walk through the most dangerous underpass in Birmingham to get to work every night. It does not exist any more, it was the Smallbrook Queensway underpass on the way to the Hippodrome and the Chinese Quarter. Now its far far safer, because the underpass has been filled in.

Marriage and kids are a new beginning too, the kids can kill the romance. So only have them if you want them, nobody is forced to have kids. Though in USA you have all this nonsense about reproductive rights etc, they really are behaving like children. If I was an egg in the womb I’d say, I’m staying inside, just 28 days and I’m free of all this. Outside it’s just mad people, why can’t I just be a whale then I could swim away into he deep ocean and live a long life, so long as I stay away from Japan and Star Trek films.

And on life goes. Your kids grow up and then you are all alone, you may never see them again, it all depends on how much they love you. The bit in the Bible about long life to those who honour their father, does visiting every single day for 3 years when dad was in the old people’s home mean I’ll live to 100 like I said I wanted as a kid?

 Though chronic pain does influence your thoughts, really 100 is too much if I continue to have all this pain. Though if ever I was an established writer I’d live in Malta during the cold months, so 100 would be fine. I’m smiling now, if I get 10 more years out of this body I’ll be amazed.

Which brings me to the End, which is just a Beginning. God will be there to greet us, he’ll be Laughing just like in the Depeche Mode song. The Religious right will be disappointed, for it will be a bit like Vegas with Gaga singing songs with the Angels. God will laugh at them, do you think I’d be so Boring? They will be shocked to see who God allowed in, Donald Trump will be there in an orange jump suit with Janitor on he back. Finally Humility so the Donald goes around fixing the drains, in actual fact he begged for the job.

In one corner by the Apple Tree in the Garden of Eden is a children’s tent and inside the sounds of bitter tears can be heard. What’s in there you may ask. If you peek inside you will see. Inside is Mrs Casey saying the Rosary, plus, well I won’t tell you. But they were Evil, you exclaim. But I was denied 3 times before the cock crowed by my best friend. But they were evil. But if God is Love, then I have to forgive everybody, now feel free to take the Art class Mrs Pence.

  

Where it all began

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this is where I wrote The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker
with a typewriter perched on a stool, as I sat on a broken backed
barn chair in front of the gas fire. Leap Year’s Day 1988 I finished it.