The best laid plans... the day to day monotony makes for them. The expectation that this day will go as the last, as that went like the one before. Sometimes there are variations - mostly by what’s been most recently completed from the to-do list but we all know that once the laundry and dishes are done, there will be more laundry and dishes to do.
It’s the unexpected that marks the days, the things that break from the normal routine. Sometimes it can be quite awful, the death of a pet, a neighbor’s car vandalized, but sometimes it can be a delight. Today we spent our evening video conferencing with friends. Unexpected conversations made us adjust our routine. Pot stickers replaced the planned meal, that and new snacks from Trader Joe’s. The dogs didn’t get their late night walk either. But I’ll be up again at dawn, without any regrets because I love chatting with our friends, people we haven’t heard from since before Covid - continuing to catch up even as the organizers signed off to go fulfill their own obligations. There is something about these interactions, ideas shared, loving slights of self-deprecation, riffing on the concept of “murder kittens” My heart is full, and the laundry will still be waiting for me in the dryer.
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