Normalizing

So much excitement the past week has me feeling unsettled. It's always hard to normalize when you've been in extraordinary situations. Especially so, if those extraordinary situations are pleasant.

I kind of talked around this in May when I talked about stress and detachment and coming down off stress. It's a similar situation in the sense that you're in a heightened sense for a limited time. I suppose you could say it's like being on drugs - and in a way, you are on drugs - chemicals your own body creates. And coming down into the reality of the life you create.

Situations of stress or excitement or standard extra-ordinariness act as outside shocks pushing me new places and thinking new things, or old things in new ways. Giving a new view to standard seat-of-the-pants reality when I leave the extraordinary situations.

So here I've been the past couple days, attempting to normalize with not much luck in getting my grounding back. Until today. Maybe it was the all night super active dream session, giving into time at the beach and my favorite kind of therapy, but heather's got her groove back. Santa Monica Beach was everything perfect. Slightly overcast and cool. SPF 30 gave me enough protection while gaining a bit more morena in the skin tone. And stopping by the old hood and Velocity gave me just enough pep to make it through traffic with G to our most important stop: Trashy Lingerie. We were kids in a candy store and closed it out. Needless to say, we're both glad that we have a line of credit that will cover our mortgage, cause we spent our money on this very important therapy. We've both got good reasons to have nice things to wear under there, even if we're just walking the dog, right? Maybe play double duty at Burning Man or next weekend...

Regardless I'm rejuvenated and excited to get to work. Business Plans and Financial pitching is more exciting when you are wearing fancy underwear.