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Sometimes, I cook amazing gourmet delights and watch documentaries - often history or nature, dinosaurs where possible. Sometimes, it's the kind of night where I have sausages, mash and baked beans.
Tonight is one of the latter nights. Insomnia was a bitch last night, I've had a headache and been feeling mildly nauseated all day, and work left me feeling like I was spinning my wheels with nothing accomplished. It's a self-care night, starting with comfort food and then finding myself stretched out on my couch with mountains of blankets and pressing play on the pilot episode of Supernatural. My cat Sunday is curled up next up to me, purring away like a little traction engine.
I haven't rewatched Supernatural since it finished, I'm still reeling and hurting a little bit from how it ended. I've seen the majority of the series most of the way through about 4 or 5 times so I know it pretty well. It's easy to watch, it's a lot of fun and Ackles & Padalecki aren't hard on the eyes. Although they were so very very young, and so innocent in comparison and I want to hug them because they have no idea what's ahead of them for the next 15 years.
But the familiarity is what I need right now. It's such a cliche sterotypical autist trait but there's a reason for it. Repetitive behaviour - in this case, watching a favourite show over and over because of the familiarity, knowing what happens and it being safe - is a stimming activity and I sit here, playing match-3 games and watching Sam and Dean save the world.
Not too bad for a Thursday night.
Tonight is one of the latter nights. Insomnia was a bitch last night, I've had a headache and been feeling mildly nauseated all day, and work left me feeling like I was spinning my wheels with nothing accomplished. It's a self-care night, starting with comfort food and then finding myself stretched out on my couch with mountains of blankets and pressing play on the pilot episode of Supernatural. My cat Sunday is curled up next up to me, purring away like a little traction engine.
I haven't rewatched Supernatural since it finished, I'm still reeling and hurting a little bit from how it ended. I've seen the majority of the series most of the way through about 4 or 5 times so I know it pretty well. It's easy to watch, it's a lot of fun and Ackles & Padalecki aren't hard on the eyes. Although they were so very very young, and so innocent in comparison and I want to hug them because they have no idea what's ahead of them for the next 15 years.
But the familiarity is what I need right now. It's such a cliche sterotypical autist trait but there's a reason for it. Repetitive behaviour - in this case, watching a favourite show over and over because of the familiarity, knowing what happens and it being safe - is a stimming activity and I sit here, playing match-3 games and watching Sam and Dean save the world.
Not too bad for a Thursday night.
