Frustration and What to Do With it

It's Monday morning and I decided to begin my week by writing a blog post about structure. I wrote what I think was a pretty darn clever post and was just editing my last paragraph when I deleted the entire post instead of the few words I THOUGHT I was changing. Insert expletive.

What to do, what to do? Here was my thought process: 'Try and re-write exactly what I had written, abandon the whole idea, step away from my desk, cry, give up, make lemonade.'

After failing at "edit, undo" several times and doing my best to calm my accelerating heart, I decided on lemonade. I changed the post to "Frustration..." 

It's ridiculously frustrating to lose things. Keys, wallets (hi honey), several paragraphs of carefully written words, etc. Frustrations are part of everyday living and I think it's better to figure out how to deal instead of white knuckling/hoping nothing goes wrong. 

My list includes some of the above (including crying) as well as taking a break, calling a friend, cleaning something (anything!). My husband knows I'm working through something when he sees me organizing the cabinets. What do you do when you're frustrated? 

(Note: I saved this post several times while writing it to ensure I didn't lose the entire thing...this time. I guess that's another strategy.)