When I get really upset I................

So, at the end of a particularly challenging day, I slowed down to reflect on just how I'd dealt with the stress... I will not bore you with the details of my day as they're over dramatic and I have had enough drama for a lifetime already!

I started a little knitting project about a week ago and it's gone surprisingly fast (That's when the stress really started, you see...) I used google to find a pattern and just dived straight in. I don't have anyone in mind for my little baby blanket and it looks like I certainly won't be producing any offspring for quite a while but this seemed manageable and I didn't have to run out and buy extra yarn as I had enough at home :-) I didn't put two and two together and realise why I'd started the knitting until this afternoon when I realised that my blood pressure had returned to normal and I wasn't even thinking about the drama anymore after just 5 minutes of the needles clicking! 

 The second thing I do is to organise and clean... Again, this is not something that happens consciously, I only realise afterwards what's just happened. I guess it's some sort of spring cleaning of my life thing. Historically, these major clean-ups coincide with big changes of direction in general... I found this amazing storage/organisation system in the plastics shop today

 it came in a surprisingly small box as all the pieces  pack together flat. You click them together and the instructions say you can cut them down to the size you want with a pair of scissors. They're designed to go inside drawers but since I don't have any drawers they're going onto one of the shelves in my cupboard :-)


Another thing I am known to do is cook, clean the kitchen and bake...  So far the self-prescribed therapy has worked and I'm ready to go searching for the perfect pair of shoes now!