When All Else Fails, Try Ice Cream!

April 27, 1999

There was a point, earlier this evening, where all I really wanted was the satisfaction of hearing glass shatter, after throwing a rock through a window. I had so much frustration and anger pent up inside, that nothing else even remotely sounded like something that would release it. I had to break something. But, I'm not the kind of person who can bring herself to damage someone else's property, and I don't have a handy self-repairing spare storm window lying around.

I've been deluged with spam; and bombarded with hostile e-mail from a friend who loaned Jev some negatives to scan and now says they never came back to her, when Jev and I are pretty sure they did get mailed back. Add in being coerced into doing some sorting through stuff that needs to be gone through for the yard sale (not really so bad, but I just was not in the mood. Then we went to the farm supply store in town where Mom wanted to pick up some shrubs, and I saw some great looking squash starts and tons of pansies, but not being able to bring any home. And top it all off with a large dose of being totally trashed by a computer player in a game, and I was not a happy camper.

That was the state Jev found me in, when we met up online at 7 my time. He did his best, trying to get me to laugh, and he mostly just listened when I would rant about something else that had gone wrong today. I finally got around to how much spam I'd had, on top of all the crap from my friend, and then there was a few moments of silence. He told me to check my mail, and sure enough there was a message from him, with a poem he wrote for me on the spot, that just erased all the anger and frustration, nd reminded me how much I love him.

After that, I was feeling much more like myself, and I decided to go raid the freezer for the last of the ice cream... but of course it was all gone. So I came back and told Jev that it's a law that there must always be ice cream on hand, even if it's just a half pint, stashed way in the back of the freezer, for emergency situations. He said to just remind him of that when we go shopping for groceries the first time, and it won't be a problem. *chuckle*

Okay, I still want to go beat the bits out of the computer player in a fresh game later, but at least now I'm in a functional state, thanks to Jev. Not too much longer now until we'll be together, and when I find that we're out of ice cream, we can just run to the store and get some!