Food and friends and feeling awful

What's your strategy for dealing with the crap life can throw at you? Are you a 'burning martyr' - say nothing but the stench is gagging? Do you bore the daylights out of any poor sod who stupidly asks you how you're doing as you drone on and on and on and onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn?

I am an 'Advanced user' of both and they don't work. At the end of it, you still feel bloody awful and people are now openly avoiding you !!! So what is a girl to do?

Three words - FOOD, FRIENDS, FALL.

We are social beings - yes we all love to be in a tribe. We love a good gossip - coffee is not the same unless its with a sneaky side of 'NEWS' delivered by Mildred who knows EVERYTHING about EVERYBODY. So why in the name of goodness do we shun our tribe when we get a metaphorical kick in the teeth. What do we do - we paint on a smile and pretend that all is well.

WRONG WRONG WRONG. SO this is what you do.
Please remember location location location - the photocopying room is not suitable, nor the biscuit aisle in Tesco !!


1. Fall into the misery - yep that's right. Just wallow in it, smell it, and see it. DO NOT START THE POSITIVITY THING - you know the sage advice 'Suck it up'..

Acknowledge that you feel bloody awful and you deserve to feel it 100%. If that means sobbing and sobbing - DO IT.

2. Next is to gather the food and friends - think carefully to avoid further upset !!

Food - a packet of stale biscuits doesn't work. Neither does the bowl of old cold mashed potato in the fridge. You have to eat food that you LOVE. So think carefully - what food do you LOVE? Calorific value doesn't count. What does count is that the food of choice makes your heart sing and won't give you the runs.........

You need friends or friend to share the food with as you pour out your heart. Judgment and PC are to be left outside. You do not want that look as you rip into your misery. Curse, swear and spit BUT GET IT ALL OUT.

Whatever you do, please please please pick your confidante carefully. Need as I say more !!!!

There you are - it works for me. Lasts an hour or two but never longer than 3 hours. By then I feel sooooo much better and the world looks better and I need to clean my teeth after all that chocolate. Your friends will have come up with a solution and you have a result.

Bring on the next drama - I still have a tray of Belgian chocolates to be devoured.