Time is so fleeting. The five days back home seem all a blur now, here in my room in Austin. Just a few hours ago I was hanging out with my sister, eating, laughing at dumb people's tricked out old cars, singing in the car, but it feel so distant now. I held my newborn niece and poked and petted her little hands and face and head to eek out cute expressions as she slept. I got blasted by a wall of sound provided by the massive theater-like sound system of my brother's media room.
My brain needs to click back over to this life here. The one where I have the routine of work - at least for one more week. The one where I need to do some laundry and clean around the edges of my room least I wallow in filth along with just plain wallowing. The one where I pull up to the house after driving for three hours and can hear the shrill laughter of Kristie before I even put the vehicle in park. That almost did it for me. I could have just continued on back home with that welcome.
A good way to ease into any environment is to engage in common routines or rituals. I am continuing to watch episodes of Parks and Recreation which I started while I was home this weekend. The illusion of familiarity produced by watching a show you know is...sad. But it works. So I go with it. When I first moved here it made getting use to the new area easy peasy. I am impervious to new environments. If I have a computer with access to the internet.
My brain needs to click back over to this life here. The one where I have the routine of work - at least for one more week. The one where I need to do some laundry and clean around the edges of my room least I wallow in filth along with just plain wallowing. The one where I pull up to the house after driving for three hours and can hear the shrill laughter of Kristie before I even put the vehicle in park. That almost did it for me. I could have just continued on back home with that welcome.
A good way to ease into any environment is to engage in common routines or rituals. I am continuing to watch episodes of Parks and Recreation which I started while I was home this weekend. The illusion of familiarity produced by watching a show you know is...sad. But it works. So I go with it. When I first moved here it made getting use to the new area easy peasy. I am impervious to new environments. If I have a computer with access to the internet.
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