[273/365] gentle re-entry

I slept until 12:30 this afternoon, and didn't get out of bed until 3.

It was just what I needed.

diffrentcolours had looked in to check on me and tell me it was 12:30, and mother_bones soon after offered to bring me breakfast.

They've done such a good job of looking after me.

Lasf night when I got read for bed, it was so lovely to pick clean pajamas off of a literal stack of fresh laundry that MB had washed, dried and folded for me while I was away. And I got into my bed that D changed the sheets on right before he came to meet me at the train station. (I'd have changed them before I left but I knew that a) Gary would like the smell of his humans on the sheets and b) Gary would wriggle over the clean sheets while I was away so they'd only have to be changed again anyway.)

Before I lived here, I'd go on these trips to see my family and come home exhausted to a house where almost no chores had been done since I left. I'd have to brace myself to do dishes/sweep/vaccum/scrub, starting immediately, at a time when I had all the emotional and physical resilience of a piece of lint.

I'm still not used to how different things are now (because I've been able to make so many fewer trips like this thanks to the ongoing pandemic). I never want to take those two for granted, I'm so grateful for them and feel so lucky to live with them.

This evening, D helped me buy a train ticket for Monday, and then his usual Pokémon Go-motivated walk inspired us to go near our local so we had a pint. We're now sharing more booze -- that blueberry maple stout I love, and now Aardbeg -- while he watches DS9.

It's been a lovely chill day.