Good morning!
So let me tell you about my morning.
I was up at the crack of dawn, very much nonconsensually. I work from home most days, a literal "roll out of bed, log on in my boxers" affair, but that usually gets scuttled by Marlowe the Buttface Cat, who's old and cranky and would be yelling at us kids to get off his lawn if he had one, and likes to inform us in no uncertain terms that it is no longer fully dark outside. Today he had a legitimate grievance-his feeder needed refilling-but no matter, we were up, we did not murder the cat, away we go.
hypnagogie did the Lord's work by making coffee (Jim's, brand based out of Massachusetts, medium roast), and I exercised self-care with a sesame bagel with plain cream cheese, toasted because I'm not a monster. Most mornings we'd be out for our daily walk right about now, a habit we sometimes lapse on but which has truly proved life-altering since we started last fall. Today, however, it's raining, which is bad news / good news, no walk but ye gods does a rainy morning set a baseline of contentment for the day. Always welcome. I'll need to venture out at lunchtime to get to therapy (an entry for another time), but for now I'm leaving my headphones off and absorbing as much calm as I can before I have to start the work that I'd prefer to ignore but seeing as how they're giving me money and all I guess I'll pay attention.
Which brings us to this entry. Andrea went down a wormhole of nostalgia reading her LJ, and she had the same thought I'd been having that maybe possibly it's time to start posting again-if not as a social activity, then as a theraputic one, a habit like coffee and bagels and morning walks. I spent a goodly amount of time trying to decide what to talk about, but in the end decided on this. Talking about nothing is liberating, and makes it easier when it's time to talk about more than nothing. My life is big and simple and complicated and joyous and hard, as lives tend to be, and I intend to talk about a lot of it. For now, though:
Good morning! How are you doing today?