Today has been a challenge to my sanity (oh shut up!), and it’s days like this that reinforce a growing concern. As you boogle through our day, we sometimes run into many situations we’d rather not have to, but must face them anyway, and because these situations are potentially stressful, we greet them at the door with a hearty “Welcome to the Compartment Department! Please allow me to direct you to the hole where you will be staying.”
Then once sequestered therein, we bung along with our lives until we meet more stress, (“Hi, I’m A Stressful Situation. I’d like your undivided attention or a room please. NOW!”) And we end up running the Headspace Bed & Breakfast for Stress, dashing from room to room….making sure each client is tucked in, quiet, with the door locked, with the neighbors not making any problems, and we zip about like a Hamster on crack in a plastic ball.
Everything is well in hand….and we are able to fool the world by appearing calm on the outside, while inside the noggin, we’ve gone from checking on our tenants (yes, they are tenants now) with a skateboard, to zipping about door-to-door on a motorcycle, to scooting about trying to catch one tenant who figured out how to escape and is now screaming naked down the hallway, down the stairs, and through the lobby toward your voice (which you suddenly realize is the one screaming).
Don’t get me wrong, compartmentalizing is quite a good coping method for the short term. But in the longer term, not so much. When guests turn into tenants they tend to demand more attention and have higher expectations. You are expected to be at their beck and call and they can keep you sleepless, weary, irritable, and even perpetually exhausted. At a Bed & Breakfast, guests are encouraged to make themselves comfortable, enjoy the amenities, have a bit of sleep, enjoy the complimentary hors d’0euvres, and get the hell out! HOWEVER….one difference between a regular B&B and the Headspace Rooms for Rent, is that a regular B&B gets cleaned out regularly.
If you are going to compartmentalize, make sure to air out the rooms once in a while and keep guest, not tenants!
That was a quickie time-out…was the beach “Out of Order?”
This time it was.
With all good intentions…sympathies. There’s always tomorrow, tomorrow…will be sending positive thoughts it happens…tomorrow…just a day away.
Keep breathing and keep stepping forward.
i show mine in one door and out the back door. i have never been one that kept things hanging out in my noggin for some other more available time. If i dont have time to deal with it now, you just have to leave!
And that’s why there are people like me around. Not everyone is strong enough to evict.
i dont have the patience for that type of resident in my brain!
But……but…….but…….I paid my rent for the month!
too bad, so sad, there is no room available! hehe
A little crazy is like jello….there’s always room for jello.
I like to think instead of compartments, I have closets I shove the things into so I can keep moving forward. Of course those skeletons rattle, but I just put in my ipod earphones. Sometimes singing really loudly and pitchy can be just the scream therapy I need.
Closets with skeletons? Nooooooo!
Sing something upbeat and let them dance.
Maybe skeletons is the wrong word…maybe regrets that I shouldn’t really regret because they led me to the ME that I am. Not saying that’s a good thing…but still.
It’s a lot better than you may think.
Awwww aren’t you a kind one
i thought that’s what bedsheets are for…..to cover everything up!
outta sight outta mind…..haha!
Well…..while that’s true to a point. Can also close your eyes, but prepare for bruises.
Also…..don’t ring my doorbell!
ding dong………….DITCH!
That’s SO wrong in SOOOOO many ways!
bet you were the kid that always got caught trying to ding dong ditch, huh? hahaha!
Suspected……but NEVER caught! Yet……
Oy! Don’t allow such tenants in your castle. Open all doors and windows – even flip open the roof – and let the wind clean the place out! Call in the storm troops if necessary.
I suggest tenants such as Serenity, Happiness and LOVE – they all come highly recommended and will even serve you breakfast – with extra coffee – in the bed
I hope your tomorrow will bring you no screaming and only the fun kind of naked running!!
Guests with good references are always welcome. Extra coffee sounds like they’re my kind of guests.
Running naked is usually fun, except for that one time…….. but we won’t go there.
good
Well said, and a nice reminder for me today! Thanks for that!!
Glad you liked it. Always hoping to be helpful!
That’s what sleep is for – to let the compartment department clear out for the night – you know, closing time – You don’t hove to go home, but you can’t stay here. Closing time – Time to go back to the places you will be from, And then they’re no longer here. They’re just Gone Babe Gone. T
Some days it’s easier to have Last Call than others.