So, as I sit in my bed, eating softened Dove chocolates, and watching Project Runway, I'm thinking of comfort things. Not comforting things (yeah, I know... the title thing), but comfort things.
The other day, it turned out all 4 of us would be home for dinner. I was excited - I've missed sitting at the dinner table with my kids, talking, listening, laughing (we do a LOT of laughing!) - and texted everybody - "what do you want for dinner?" Lots of "I don't know, what do you want", and misc ideas no one was really interested in. Then, someone said, "ham?", and we were off to the races.
Would there be scalloped potatoes? Yes. With cheese? Yes. What about applesauce? Yes. What veggie? Um, fresh green beans? YES YES came back the chorus.
As we sat around the table, happily eating, laughing, talking, it occurred to me --- this is comfort food. This is home - I asked who wanted to make the scalloped potatoes, and got thunderstruck looks in return. "You need to make them! Ours never come out right! We've tried!! They're not RIGHT when we make them!" Comfort.
So, I've been thinking about this. Things that comfort. I had a better day today - not physically, but emotionally. I started wondering what made this a different day. It was a comfort day. Munchkin was back at work (for a short time, as it turned out, but I got some reassuring friend contact that I've been missing - cause this is all about me right now, and Munchkin's story is for Munchkin to tell), heard from FWB, tiny pieces of good news during the day. I got past a difficult conversation with my manager (I hadn't yet told her about my upcoming surgery- she took it surprisingly well, albeit with a touch of panic, which was (oddly) comforting. I'm needed! I'm necessary!).
This is a little different, I think, than what we usually consider comfort things. Sometimes it's things -a favorite blanket, pillow, book. Sometimes it's food - ham, chicken corn soup, chocolate. Sometimes it's people - FWB, Munchkin, a friend I've never met in real life (but have "known" for years).
I think I'm going to split posts, because there are other things I want to write about, but I don't want this post (or any post) to be excessively long, and because I don't want to bounce round and round in one post. Also, because some day, I might want to read what I've written, and I don't want to wade through a bunch of shit to get to what I want! LOL
I think splitting up your posts into themes is definitely good - you're writing very engagingly so far, but I fear that burnout lurks, and will pounce if you keep doing info dumps. (I know that is what happens to me, being irrepressible with "And then this, and then that, and THEN..." Exhausting!) Themes make one focus, and craft with some attention to the detail the reader needs.
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