For 10 months this year, I've been cherishing routine when it comes to my meals. Sometimes I make a quick dinner for myself, and sometimes I eat dinner with the Whittles. Either way, I know I'm either eating mediocre, instant food on my couch while I watch How I Met Your Mother, or a home-cooked meal at a dining room table with Alex Trebek's voice in the background. How do I know I "cherish" routine? Because I have yet to change it.
Until November: when my cherished routine became toxic, and a daily calendar forced me to do something I wasn't motivated to do. And I'll be honest, I saw that this picnic post was coming up and stole the idea for a date night last week: a picnic indoors with take-out and a movie. Easy enough for a date night. And because I had already had my indoor picnic last week, I could have lied about doing the picnic today to save myself some blogging effort. Instead of feeling lazy and hesitant, however, I felt something different than expected. A desire for change. A desire for a red blanket on the floor with paper napkins and a lemonade.
So I had my second indoor picnic in two weeks. Meatball subs, lemonade, and a blanket laid out on the carpet set the scene--for a romantic dinner in, for a stress-free night after a traffic-packed car ride back from Washington, D.C., but mostly, for a change in my life.
I think I'm starting to like change.
Yay! Did you have a Pic-y-nic basket?
ReplyDeleteI do have one, but we didn't use it for the indoor picnic. Maybe when it finally gets warm again here. Like the middle of July.
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