To read, perchance to sleep

In a gesture of true and sincere affection, I woke up at *six-thirty in the morning* to meet a friend for breakfast at a local diner I've never been to, where we waited for a literal hour hanging out before the cook came in. Please note that we arrived at open. One of the wait staff was there. The cook was not. Turned out the cook had gone to the store to pick up some things and the store was a madhouse because *checks notes* some of their freezers had gone down during the night.

The breakfast was ultimately delicious and I did make it to church in time for 9 AM choir practice, and we did not get rained on for the procession around the block with the bagpiper. (Episcopalians are just Like This, don't question it.) And then friend came to pick me up for the afternoon tea and we made it *there* on time, and I had successfully managed to quick-change into my new dress while we were trickling in for choir practice Round Two. (It is not correct for Easter Sunday, I will melt and die if I wear it under the choir robes, and also I need to get it hemmed.)

The tea was very pleasant and a very good spread of sweets and treats. Fundraiser for a local nonprofit hospice care facility.

And then we went and paid a couple utility bills and then we went home and I put on PAJAMAS and flopped on the couch for a couple hours and then made dinner and am now flopped on the couch again nursing my finger where the parrot bit me for... something. God doesn't know sometimes.

I am returned home from the frigid NE (*waves to petra, jadelennox, the_jack, teland, jadelennox, gingicat, jjhunter*) to MY OWN BED and MY OWN HOUSE. We stopped on the way back from the airport to pick up some sushi for partner Z and some baked goods for both of us (85 Degrees makes the best strawberry danish croissant things, I love them, we won't discuss my passionate feelings about the choco delight buns and the Hokkaido custard buns).

I hope that the next trip out there will be for a less emotionally-fraught reason, but I know Ny is beaming delight at people who loved her getting to know each other better and is so chuffed at being the reason in-person meetups happened.