I'm good until I see the newscasters cry. There have been several on different networks that were just overcome. Other people crying is such a trigger for me.

Lovely evening at Casa Holt. Made yummy Indian dinner, random creation that DH said I have to remember for future. Now we are drinking champagne and watching the celebrations. Blocking out all that is not well in the world and living in this delightful moment.

Some important curtain fabric choice decisions. My upstairs bathroom is painted a medium grey. All white tile and black fixtures. I am changing soon to a black and white monogram shower curtain. I want some color and a print, but nothing whimsical. I was looking for something kind of lush. I found this. [link]

what think you all?

I think it's pretty.

Pretty

I've felt happy all day, and even more relieved. Now I feel like I have to get sick (and I have not been drinking). It's like how I felt sick after my son went missing and we found him -- sick with (even more) relief, I guess.

I like the butterflies, msbelle -- both how they look and the symbolism, too.

Aw, my nephew and his girlfriend drove to Wilmington for the speech. What a day!

I love it, msbelle.

That's a beautiful print, msbelle!

I kind of wish we'd gone up to Wilmington tonight but this week's just been too exhausting.

The idea hit during the Zoom call, I’m glad they were able to make it happen. I’m collapsed in bed, personally.

I'll be over here pretending we were working on a very Buffista production of Hamilton, when someone spoke Latin in front of the books, so now unless whichever one of you smashes the amulet or gives it back to Sweet, we're gonna have to filk the whole book, in order to send Trump through a portal to prison, a golf course, or a world without KFC.

The code word is "cilantro," dig me? Cilantro.

^ brought me so much joy.

Also, sometimes you don't realize just how much anxiety you are carrying in your body until you start to breathe fully again.