I need everybody singing to the tune of “The Muffin Man”

My husband took my card away,

my card away, my card away,

my husband took my card away

in case of mania!

Yesterday I was in a very irritable mood because I had places I needed to be and as an introvert that’s a speed bump I always have to get over before I can cruise off to having fun once I arrive. Today I am the opposite, I am up, up up.

Another song popped in my head, from the Phantom of the Paradise. I dedicate this one to my step-father, who used to work long hours as an entrepreneur. He is an amazing provider and all around wonderful person. He is retired now, so just pretend there is a time machine that takes us back, then brings us to the happy present moment.

Caught up in your wheelin’ dealin’

You’ve got no time left for simple feeling.

I thought I knew you

But I didn’t know you at all

Trapped inside your world of worry

You miss so much when you always hurry

So slow down baby

You’ll only get hurt if you fall

You told you one time that you’d be somebody

That you weren’t working just to survive

But your working so hard that you don’t even know you’re alive

Working so hard to be somebody special

Not working just to survive

Well you’re special to me babe, and what I don’t see babe

Is where we go once we arrive

Where we go once we arrive.

I could just be happy because school’s out for summer (oh, geez, another song!), or because I am done grocery shopping and I have nowhere I have to be. But chances are (another song) I’m on my way up to a hypomania. I am using my current, but probably fleeting ability to focus to get my RBT training completed, give the dog a bath and sweep and mop the floor.

Fortunately for me, my husband is well versed in how to react when I feel the earth move under my feet! Now I am off to play each of these songs on youtube and dance in my studio.

P.S. The photo I chose is indicative of how it is still a calm mania, just a simple twirl.