Haha. No, I know what you mean. This year, when the metaphorical **** was starting to hit the fan, I went into a cleaning frenzy. I boxed up all my old school texts I wasn't going to keep, sorted out all my childhood toys between keepers and stuff I hadn't looked at in close to 20 years which I finally decided to finally give away, re-arranged my shelves...needless to say, I got a lot of cleaning done.
Something about cleaning takes my mind off it, somehow. Weeding works too, pulling weeds in the yard. Sounds like we're going through a bit of the same thing, it seems.