Would you rather be ice shavings or mince meat?

That EVERYDAY HAPPY book, which I mentioned in my last post, says that on DAY 5 (today) I should reach out and make contact with someone whom I have not spoken with for a while -- perhaps a former beloved co-worker who I don't see very often, or a once dear friend who was relocated. 

I'm wondering if I could bend the rules and simply make contact with an iron fist on someone who I usually see 5 days a week, because said person causes my blood pressure to rise almost every day I see said person, and clocking said person one good time, would immediately relieve some of my angst, so much more than would calling someone whom I have not spoken with in a while.  Besides I doubt my chosen friend, would enjoy hearing me vent loudly in his or her ear after not having heard from me in so long.  Oh wait, I could call my friend in New Orleans.  He likes it when I curse.

Fortunately for said annoying and perpetual procrastinating person and any one of my unintentionally neglected friends (and probably me, cuz I'm not the prison type), I simply gazed longingly at the heavy duty three hole punch as I passed it on my way to the kitchen where I instead took out my fury on chunks of ice which should be cubed.  Ahhh ... destruction by ice scoop.  What a cool and refreshing ANGST relief activity!

I feel better now.  Maybe not happy as a blue bird, but better.  Maybe later I will call one of my unintentionally neglected out of state friends.  Who knows, happy may be within today's reach after all.


I'm not crazy or dangerous.  Really.  I'm just helping my blood pressure return to normal by venting my residual annoyance.

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