Reboot

Okay, so I took a little *break* and I feel like I have some ‘splainin’ to do.

Sometimes, I have these weird panic attacks.

They start out in the pit of my stomach - where the little butterflies start flittering.

Sometimes the butterflies grow.  And grow.  And grow.

Until they turn into something different.

When that happens, things start to go awry.

The shame of it is, that nervous, tweaked-out energy usually translates into some of my best material - I’m pretty funny in calamity!  But I can’t get it together enough to concentrate on any one thing for longer than a nano-second.

The kids generally don’t realize I’m in mid-crisis;  partly because I try not to visibly freak out, if at all possible.

And partly because they make me screamy anyway.

Normally, Derek’s there to talk me down from the imaginary ledge, and I can get back to a place where I can function normally.  At least for a little while.  At least until the next one happens.

I can’t figure out why they come and go the way they do, and usually I can work through them, but sometimes, they just get a little too big and demand attention. 

Kinda like a third child.  Or worse, a second husband.

So I do what I can to make it through, until the anxiety decides to retreat back to it’s dark little cave.  Although that periodically takes some creativity on my part.  This time, I needed something a little crazy to get back to “normal.”

So naturally, I dyed some of my hair purple.

I feel much, much better now...