Update

[hypatia42]

Sanity is slowly returning. Letting down the walls is going to be important here real quick. onyxtwilight says that breaking things works really well. I just don't have a good space to break things I want to break and not break the things I want to keep whole.

Life is starting so slow down. Thats nice. The four elements fairies are finally hung in the dining room. Not their finaly home but it works well until the walls are painted next spring. Got the keyrack hung so no more, "Honey what did you do with my keys?" Broom rack also hung in the back hallway so they aren't randomly sitting around the house. Still need a coat rack, throwing them on the unused chair won't work forever.

Tiling is done, grout is done. Only thing left in that realm is to seal the grout. The trim in the kitchen and the bathroom is still not finished painting. Something really strange in the water/air in the bathroom... Several weeks after I was done painting the walls I noticed an odd residue building up at the trim, kinda like soap film only orangey yellow. Yuck. No clue where its coming from either. It'll just have to be cleaned regularly I guess.

Composting went well. Nobody had the quiche cause it wasn't done until after everyone was stuffed. HAHAHA more for me. It was great! So exciting to find fun things to cook. I think I will sleep tonight, preferably before 12:30.

Comments

[onyxtwilight.livejournal.com]

You're making the breaking-things thing too complicated. It's very simple. You get some old crockery of some sort (uber-cheap plates from garage sales, for example, or Savers), and you go out back by your garage and you HURL them at the concrete as hard as you can. It helps to pick ugly dishes, because no one will miss them and you're doing the world a favor.

Material considerations are very important. Do NOT get into the habit of breaking glass for stress relief, because it is a stone bitch to clean up properly. Use ceramic stuff that breaks into big shards and/or powder, not little sharp fragments. Then you pick it up, put it in the trash, and go away. Very simple. :-)

(Exception - if you can find a recycling center that still has open bins for glassware, you can take recycling glass and throw it at the other recycling glass, which produces glorious showers of sparkly shattered glass that stay well-contained in their giant bin, harming no one. You can play games like "if this bottle hits that bottle, which one will break?" and other fun distractions. :-)

For extra-strong stress-relief effect, you can do some appropriate energy work, pouring all your negative whatever into whatever you're about to break... but it works pretty well even if you don't. There's something very psychologically satisfying about breaking things when you're frustrated or upset. Breaking cheap ugly crockery is a low-cost, harmless-in-the-grander-scheme way to make use of that fact and channel away the impulse to choke the living shit out of whomever is pissing you off. (Some people do this with video games. I like the more visceral approach. :-)