My parents went to my grandma's old condo with a work vehicle to help take away some more big bins of stuff to try to get the condo ready for pictures to list and sell.  Which was good, I needed some introvert recharge "no humans" time after the day I'd had. They also left their dog Sophie with me and Audrey until they return with the work car and to unload the things. 

So I put all the George Winston I own (pretty much his entire catalogue) on randomize and put the electric kettle on to steep a cuppa Comfort and Joy tea. (It's one of the Republic of Tea seasonal teas and it's one of my absolute favorite bagged teas!!! I just ordered more over the weekend, in bulk, while I could get it! I also really love their Tea of Good Tidings, Red Hot Holiday, and Countdown to Christmas Cardamom Cinnamon. All four of them are exceptionally delightful and can only bought be bought in November and December.) Then I started a gif conversation of cute hippos on a post I made about dinos with one of my besties and fed the dogs and let them out.  And then my tea was ready and they wanted to play, so I brought my tea out to sit on the counter and I sat down on the floor with all my Christmas lights and electric menorah but the main lights turned off on the sales floor and played fetch with two happy dogs, doing yoga stretches in between throws, while listening to George Winston and taking occasional sips of Comfort and Joy tea.

Best hygge I could do under the circumstances to simulate the oxytocin release of a really nice long hug. Not that I don't still desire that sort of hug, but when you can't get a hug in the moment then your next best choice is to hygge yourself. But Christmas lights and some of my forever favorite piano music and playing fetch with happy doggos til they collapse and yoga stretches and a hot cuppa Comfort & Joy tea is pretty damn good -- no matter what else the day was or wasn't, that's a very soothing happy set of moments and a lovely tranquil memory of a time of peaceful joie de vivre to have stored away. 

I'm going to have some pumpkin pie and Italian brandy in a little bit, then get back to work now the dogs have both had a drink and are tired out for some snoozles.  But I'll probably leave the George Winston on until I'm done with it -- it's soothing to have for my soundtrack tonight. And by tired of it, I mean I'll probably begrudgingly turn it off to head home and then put George Winston on randomize back on when I get home again. (Which will please the cat VERY much! George Winston is Spock's absolute favorite music ever and George Winston told me that's the highest compliment he's ever received when i told him that after a concert. Ever since, when I have stopped by after shows he remembers me as "the girl whose cat has the best taste in music" lol.) 

P.S. All the astro & tarot weekly overview accounts that I follow all said Monday would be a 10 of swords day (Mercury moving into Sag and its positions relative to Saturn, Chiron, and Mars today) but they also said Tuesday would be a 10 of cups day (moon moving into Libra bringing peace/balance and all those awkward angles between communication, karma, wounded healer, and active/fight/power dynamics energies will be smoothed out). Which is much needed and I already feel gratitude for that energetic shift.