Returning Home

This is what returning home after 5+ weeks of travel, events, flights and friends looks like:

• The dog still has fleas
• I can't seem to get up before 8am
• I've gone into nesting mode - cleaning my desk (above), fixing a towel rack, hanging frames on the wall, cleaning and cleaning some more, taking things out of the house, and making room
• Set up the autumn decorations just in time for Halloween
• My sister is here and crashing in our spare room (the office / music space) indefinitely
• H is so busy with school that I've seen awake him for less than 6hrs since I got back Sunday
• I unpacked but there are piles of laundry
• The bathroom is dirty from giving the dog a bath and our daily use
• I desperately need something new to read
• My body hurts from my San Fran trip and my epic biking of the city (hopefully its own post soon)
• My brain is shot from too many events, too much email, and way too much socializing
• Digital photos are scattered and yet to be cataloged and shared
• I have a burst of excited energy in the morning while I write, which quickly dissipates after exercising the dog
• I'm taking the space I need even though I panic every few hours that I'm not doing enough

How's your week going? I've opted out of Halloween this year, but my friends had some sweet costumes: the house from "Up", Popeye and Olive Oyl, sexy Edward Scissorhands, a 70s couple (Afros included) and Where's Waldo.