[253/365] I'm home!

[cosmolinguist]

Andrew met me at the airport at ten thirty this morning, which was super nice of him. He was also willing to take my suitcase home by himself so I could go do other stuff that was more time-sensitive:

I tried to get my messy hair cut (the place was closed so it'll have to wait until Friday, which seems like a long time when I've been uncomfortable with it for weeks already, but I'll live. In the process I had stuff to praise one Stagecoach driver for and complain about like three or four other ones, so I did that.

I went for lunch with diffrentcolours, having missed both him and vegetarian-friendly protein a lot. We had burritos. It was great.

I came home and had a shower. I needed it because that much travel makes a person gross, but also my poor hair. The one thing wrong with the Lush shampoo bars that are the only shampoo I've yet found that works on my hair and scalp is that they don't pack well. So I always think "I'll be fine for a week" and forget what it's like at my parents' house, where all the shampoo is "moisturizing" for my mom's dry fine hair so my hair ends up gross and my scalp is differently gross.

I was very excited to see Gary and he was excited to see me -- ran down the stairs from where he'd been sleeping on our bed, bounced around a little -- but no more so than if I'd just been out for lunch and not gone for ten days. Gary lives in the moment. It's very inspiring. He really wanted me to go to bed and I did need a nap by then. He snuggled up next to me and immediately started with the tiny cute snores, breathing on my leg and being so cozy. Like I said, he's an inspiration.

Been a good first day back.

Comments

[barakta]

Welcome home!

[cosmolinguist]

The combination of being gone extra long (ten days is so much more than a week!), Manchester actually being nice and sunny to come back to, and Andrew making a concerted effort to make the house nice when I got back really took away a lot of my usual ambivalence about returning to chores and work and life. That's been nice.

[haggis]

Really glad to have you back!

[cosmolinguist]

Well, not for long. :) I'm going to...most of...probably, Lib Dem conference. So I hope you can do Bi Coffee on Sunday?

[haggis]

Yes! It's all under control 😉

[nanila]

Huzzah for being home!

[jesse_the_k]

Phew.

I hope you can have a luxurious nap to celebrate!

[cosmolinguist]

I did, it was good. :)

[silveradept]

Glad that you are home, and that it was not to a pileup of things left undone.

[swingandswirl]

Yay home, yay pet, and yay Andrew making the house nice to come back to!

[momentsmusicaux]

Lush shampoo bars (which incidentally I am quite fond of too) -- is it that if you take one you've already started using, it's a big wet and slightly squishy mess? What about taking a new one that's dry and leaving it at your parents' for next time? Or is it the case that it would disappear? Also, do you use the bars that are a slab of stuff that's cut off a bigger slap, or the round cakes? For the round cakes, Lush sell a little tin you can transport it in, though it doesn't work for brand new ones as the fit is too tight, and don't leave a used one in the tin for too long.

[cosmolinguist]

I use the round ones and yes I have a tin. The problem is (and this is probably why you shouldn't leave them) after a whole they don't dry out completely and then they leak everywhere.

Taking a new one and leaving it there might be an idea. Though really I should just buy some Andrew-friendly shampoo ther, because tea tree is one of the few things his skin can cope with and it's also much less hard on my hair and scalp than the stuff my mom buys.

[nou]

I noticed the other day that Lush have started selling a cork container that might work better than the tin. (I also have a tin and find it useless; not tried the cork one yet.)