keep on keeping on

ahhhhh. that is all i have to say, because this is the first trip in the last month where i'm staying for more than two nights at a time.

oh man. i knew it was going to be a crazy couple of months of traveling, but i forget how tiring it is to just trek to and from the airport, on and off the plane, in and out of a suitcase. in the last month, I have been to LA, San Diego, Seattle, Austin and I just arrived in LA again tonight. and i'm not even a management consultant! and i've got about two and a half more months of this. a myriad of weddings, reunions, bachelorette parties, etc. my friends need to stop having life-changing events in their lives.

the end result on a day to day basis is no clean laundry, a crazy messy room, stacks of bills and mail, and the challenge of keeping up with my friends' lives here back home. two of my friends have had babies who i haven't seen, one of my friends is dating someone new, another is moving to ny in a couple of months, one just started her new job and who knows what else i'm missing.

it's kind of strange because it's like my life is on hold and shooting forward at the same time - i'm waiting to rejuvenate relationships with people in my life after this madness stops - but really, it's all going on ahead anyway, and i'm catching new experiences as i hop from one place to another.

sometimes i wonder if this is just a certain transition period in my life or if my life will always be hectic like this. in which case, i just have to operate differently and cram even more stuff into my days because there's so much more i want to do still.

how to make ice cream. perfect my chinese and spanish. buy a sewing machine. put up my art and photos. take voice lessons. DIY all my unwanted clothes. dance around the house naked....um, well, you get the drift. the list will never end. how do other people do it? what does a "normal" state of life look like anyway? and would i like it?