a sunday update (again!) 🍂

hi everyone, i hope that you're all having a restful weekend! i'm going to catch up on comments from my last post this evening, but thank you for your support and for all of your kind words- i've been reading them quickly in spare moments, and i'm extremely grateful.

i don't have too much to update, and i know i say it in every post, but things do *feel* a bit more like they're settling down, and so hopefully i'll catch up on some drawings soon.

i made a big decision last week to change my bed- wednesday doesn't sleep well (or at all) in a crate at the moment, and instead of forcing her (and risking building a negative association), i've decided to just let her sleep with me for the time being. she sleeps 100% through the night when i allow it, so it feels silly to complain- even though it wasn't what i had originally planned for us 😅

however, a bunk bed obviously isn't ideal or safe for this arrangement, and after sleeping on the floor for several nights i spent a couple of hours last week pulling my room apart to be able to flip my bunkbed over (it's reversible, ty ikea). this was a fine short term soultion- but in the autistic way of things the "temporary" change was eating me up inside quite badly.

to be able to flip the bed i (obviously) had to remove everything out from under it and was keeping it all in my brothers room (he's away at university) but i was incredibly uneasy and restless in that special, horrible autistic way in not knowing how long things would be like this before i could put it all back to "normal".

in the end (and in a bit of a final-limit-reached moment) i decided to just make one big change, rather than keep adjusting to many little changes, and replaced the whole bed with something that would work permanently longer term. i think this sounds rather counter-intuitive, but for me one big, permanent change is easier to come to terms with than sitting in autistic-limbo for an unforseen amount of time, not knowing when things would be "right" again.

so i spent the whole of yesterday morning taking apart my poor, faithful bunkbed in preparation for my ikea delivery (lol), and then spent the whole afternoon, evening and part of the night building the new bed and "fixing" my room. i'm not 100% happy with it all yet, but i do already feel better knowing that this is the new "right" and permanent, and not another uncertainty with no time-scale.

in other news, wednesday and i sucessfully walked a lap of the graveyard today- she often gets very distracted on walks (understandable) and so we do a lot of stopping and starting, but today she seemed to visibly enjoy herself and we kept a reasonably good pace! it's a small win but one that i'm very happy to take 😌👍🏻

please share your sundays with me again- they're always so wholesome, and i really enjoy reading about them! what did you do?

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