Stress and Relaxation

Another day, another dollar - I suppose that is what they say.  I don't mind being busy at work, but the past few weeks has started to drive everyone crazy! It's been nearly one week since Lesley left and I miss her!  I have no one at work to relax with at lunch, or no one as close anyway.  We have all been asked to 'muck in' with her responsibilities and I'm not sure they are going to replace her anytime soon which means they may become a permenant part of our roles.

I don't mind doing the upgrades for Link2Portal; the site has just been redeveloped and it is much nicer and easier to use.  We have had a few existing clients say that they like the new design too, which makes me feel proud of being part of the team that put it together.  However, it's been stressful.  It is the company's flagship website and thus has to be perfect and inivative.  As a web developer, I know the former is not something that is achievable but being near to it is.  As for the former, we have put so much into the site, a lot more than we have since I have been there, and I certainly believe it is more intuative than anything we have done before.  

So, as the doctors say in all the movies, I need to de-stress and relax.  That is what I have been doing over the past week or so, or attempting to anyway.  However, for me it is quite difficult.  I have always thought of perfection as something to strive towards, despite knowing it is never going to be 100% but that doesn't stop me and I know I'm not the only developer who feels this way.

To relax, I have been watching films and doing bits of coding outside of work.  It does actually work and makes me forget about being stressed (unless my kitten jumps on my laptop and turns it off - so annoying!).  Another thing I have been doing is going to bed at a reasonable time - going to bed at 1am and getting up 6 hours later is not a good thing.  The rest in bed, even if I'm not sleepy, really helps me chill out and when I wake, I am ready and raring to go to work.  Getting to work about 30 minutes early also helps as I can get all the bits I didn't finish or have time to look at the day before done before I start getting asked questions about the work for the day ahead.

Talking about coding, I think I might go back to doing my boyfriend's site now, de-stress and all that!!!