mad social whirl!
May. 31st, 2021 09:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wychwoodMy brother came over with the family to visit our parents on Saturday, and now the restrictions have been softened, they invited me to come and see them all. Which was lovely, but slightly inconvenient, since I had church (near my parents' house) in the evening and it wasn't going to make sense to go home in between (since it's a 45+ minute journey), but was going to leave me stuck with three or four hours to kill away from home. However, I capitalised on the occasion and arranged to meet another local friend while I was there, my swimming buddy V who I haven't seen since before the pandemic started.
It was lovely to see everyone, and the weather was nice enough (mostly cloudy but warm) that we spent the whole time in gardens (as the sunburn on my arms and face can attest... I love being such a delicate flower that I burn through cloud cover), and in many ways it felt extremely normal, but also I literally haven't been inside someone else's house in fifteen months. Time went surprisingly quickly in the way that it can once you get into conversation. My niblings are all getting so big now!
Totals for the day: socialised with six adults, four children, three dogs, and one cat; walked an objectively reasonable distance which is about twice what I used to do most days, and which my feet are spectacularly unhappy about; spent eight hours out of the house (also a pandemic record).
I then spent pretty much the whole of Sunday lying around limply and re-reading the Murderbot diaries, while recovering. I'm very glad it was a long weekend.
It was lovely to see everyone, and the weather was nice enough (mostly cloudy but warm) that we spent the whole time in gardens (as the sunburn on my arms and face can attest... I love being such a delicate flower that I burn through cloud cover), and in many ways it felt extremely normal, but also I literally haven't been inside someone else's house in fifteen months. Time went surprisingly quickly in the way that it can once you get into conversation. My niblings are all getting so big now!
Totals for the day: socialised with six adults, four children, three dogs, and one cat; walked an objectively reasonable distance which is about twice what I used to do most days, and which my feet are spectacularly unhappy about; spent eight hours out of the house (also a pandemic record).
I then spent pretty much the whole of Sunday lying around limply and re-reading the Murderbot diaries, while recovering. I'm very glad it was a long weekend.
