The end of the school year has come. I have mindlessly made it through the last day of school, the last day Kindergarten party, the last soccer, baseball and lacrosse game, and the last sports team end of the season party. Thank goodness because I don’t think my over-taxed brain could handle any more “lasts”.My brain, at the moment, is like a running toilet that keeps sending water into the fill tube but the flapper will not close. Work, kids, phone calls and my herd of animals are the water trying to rush in and fill up the tank but my flapper is stuck and the information just keeps draining out. I need a new brain flapper.
I have always been easily overwhelmed by too much stimuli invading my thought processes but having three kids has thrown me over the edge. I miss the days of having most things in my life under order and control. I don’t need everything to be perfect but I do need some resemblance of organization. That got flushed down the drain years ago.
So, the question to myself is how to regain some level of control. How do I clear out the cobwebs and make room for more data? It’s not like cleaning out your computer files with the easy click of the delete button. It’s more like hooking up the external hard drive and transferring all of your shit to another device. You still own it but it is conveniently placed somewhere else.
The beach is usually my clearing out method. I can sit and stare at the waves for hours in a bikini listening to my Ipod and sipping on a cold one. Unfortunately, that retreat will have to wait until July. I need a clean sweep now.
Just an example of auditory overload going on at this moment: my two oldest kids are putting the clean dishes away while fighting over who gets the TV remote next and for how long. The dishes are clanking, one is humming obnoxious, high-pitched nasal noises to annoy the other and the other is shrieking at him to knock it off.
I’m thinking that there has to be one of those spa/resort/rehab places that will hook you up to IV fluids with a continuous stream of sleep-inducing juice that will detox your system, clear your mind and allow you to check out for a few days. You wake up feeling cleansed, focused and with a few pounds of weight loss to boot.
Funny Farm, here I come.
