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so the pandemic not only made it so i didn’t leave the house to do things like run errands, it also did the thing where because of the glitch in unemployment i had zero income for… i forget now, but it was like five or six months? which was stressful? anyway i have complained before about how my relationship to like, buying things is totally broken now. but i do need some things. so.

yesterday it was a lovely saturday and i had resolved to Go Forth And Acquire Some Objects. But it struck me that I did not need these objects to be new, necessarily. So I went first to a thrift store, and I can report that yes that’s a good way to get inexpensive bedsheets but there were none in the size/thing I needed, so instead I went and picked out like all the unburnt pillar candles off the shelf, for one to two dollars apiece, and also I bought two old water bottles, since for some reason all my decent water bottles have vanished and I’m reusing disposable ones endlessly. Not great. I could have bought some gaudy tablecloths and am not sure why I did not.

Thence to Homegoods, where I spent far too much on new chair cushions, but our dining table chairs are designed to have cushions on them and the ones I bought from Ikea in probably 2006 had started to definitively wear out. I also spent an inordinate amount on a duvet cover, but it was in fact genuinely linen, and I had been wanting that, so now I have a full set of linen sheets just not quite all matching. Whatever.

I did not buy any candles there but the one thing I can never resist is going over to the Wall O Socks and buying myself huge multipacks of really squishy socks. My last set of these have largely worn out, so I’m delightedly wearing new socks right now. oh my god. life’s luxuries.

Then we went to Target. (Yeah, we, I’d brought Dude along, and he was actually better at finding things than me. He’s a forager, that one.) I bought two pillows and a bunch of unscented candles– you can get multipacks of plain candles at Target after all, reasonably-priced. Now the cabin can be extensively candle-lit, whether it gets electrificated promptly or not.

That’s more Retail Hell than I’ve experienced in quite some time, so we went the back way home to stop by the liquor store and get gin, which we were out of. I’d previously planned on Snacks For Dinner; we had chip dip with kohlrabi and carrots, and some cheese and cured meats and crackers, though for future reference a proper Snacks Dinner ought to have some fruit or sweet cheeses in it. It was a glorious day, I did literally six loads of laundry and have them all dry and folded from the line (I’d gotten four on the line before we left, and did two more after we got home, including the new duvet cover), and we got slightly high and sat on the couch whispering slightly-unsettling things to one another and eating far too many crackers. (The texture.)

I did not get any writing done. i’ve been up for two hours already today still not getting any writing done. Oh well. (Your picture was not posted)