I'm in the middle of three husbandless weeks, which is a lot even for us, and the wheels have started to come off a little. Today was all good, though. I had gotten to a point where the clutter on the surfaces on the main floor was stressing me out again (I clean it up, and then for a while it builds up again and doesn't bother me, and then it bothers me but I still can't make myself address it, and then I clean it up, lather rinse repeat) and this week I either put it all back where it belonged or got rid of it (eight freecycle porch pickups, all picked up on time which is a minor miracle) and when I came downstairs my mind let out a happy sigh.
I had lunch with three of the flawless iconic fucking queens from my group chat, which was amazing even though our waitress seemed to be going through something and the food took forever considering we were in a nearly-empty Swiss Chalet - I tipped really well anyway.
Then I went to Shoppers with Nat (HI NAT) and enabled a bunch of chocolate buying and remembered I needed dish soap (they were out of Mrs. Meyers except lemon verbena which makes me wheeze, so I got watermelon Palmolive which smells really good). Then I went to the Bulk Barn with the coupon Holly gave me (HI HOLLY) and got candy and off-brand M&Ms and Christmas sprinkles and used the coupon and got another coupon.
When I got home I spent a few minutes admiring the flowers that are hanging on even though it's mid-November in central Canada - the chrysanthemums Margot (HI MARGOT) gave me for my birthday didn't rebloom all summer when I potted them, but now they have come roaring back.
Then I spent a number of hours I am choosing not to disclose on a puzzle, with the first use of my game-changing puzzle board, which I had been considering for over a year without pulling the trigger until somehow a conversation with Matt during our 10-hour becalming at the Edmonton airport resulted in him saying "just order it". I do puzzles a lot when Matt is away in the winter - it both soothes my nervous system and sometimes results in exiting a dissociative state at 5 a.m.
Then I had really good leftover curry at a ridiculously late dinner hour because puzzle. And now I am going to bed.
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