A "Dom Drop" day

I woke up this morning feeling terrible. I don't know how much of it was allergies and how much of it was just camp out withdrawal, but I just felt like crap. Also, I was exhausted from sleeping so poorly for the last week. I usually schedule a day off after an event like that to give me some time to get things back in order and make the transition, but I have been saving all my vacation time lately for the surgery. Surgery or no, I didn't make it to work today.

I mostly slept, although I did get some laundry done, and finished putting away all the things I took for dessert service to the camp out. I also made some veggies that were left over into some soup to eat on. That was about all I could manage today.

There is an actual name for withdrawal from BDSM after an event - it's called "Dom drop" by the community. It's partly your body's withdrawal from the endorphins that BDSM stimulates (you have a lot of them, and kind of "fly" on them during an event, especially during a scene), and partly depression about having to go back to the "real" world. It used to be REALLY bad when I first got into the scene - it was like the aftermath of stuffing yourself on something really rich and overly sweet. That's the best way I can describe it. But it hasn't been that severe the last couple of things I've been to. Either that, I have planned better in the past. Either way it was a bad day today.