Here is some advice for you... :)

When you are having one of "those days", and it feels like every little thing is going wrong, and fate is laughing at you...and you are completely out of patience and feeling outrageously frustrated...and you are trying hard not to take it out on the people around you...and then you remember that stupid thing that "THEY" always say about punching a pillow or some such thing to vent your frustrations...

I HIGHLY recommend that you really do punch a pillow, and DO NOT instead kick a wooden shoe rack. (see above). Kicking a wooden shoe rack will not, in fact, make you feel any better, and will in fact, make you feel much worse. Instead of just being frustrated, you will now be frustrated and also in great pain and feeling (and looking) very foolish. It will not help you find your keys, get the kids out the door any faster, make progress on the giant piles of laundry, make the phone stop ringing, get something fixed for dinner, get the unfinished bathroom completed or get your daughter home from Africa any earlier. It will, hurt a lot. I really can't say how much I do not recommend this.

Yes, that is a picture of my foot in it's current condition, after I stupidly kicked a shoe rack in an un-characteristic moment of bubbling frustration. Some of my kids think it looks cool...my girls are being very sympathetic...my husband says he has finally rubbed off on me...my dear Ryan asked me to put a sock on because, "when he looks at it, it makes his foot hurt and then he feels nauseous." thanks Ry.

So, I will be home this weekend, and promise to write more soon (and be back on topic).
Take this post as a "what not to do when feeling frustrated" tutorial.