Sleepy ramblings...

[annwfyn]

• Madoc has reappeared. One of our neighbours brought him home last night after they found him scratching on their door. We still have no idea where he has vanished off to, but at least he's back home. Cursed little monster.



• I had a very odd night's sleep, or lack thereof, last night. For various reasons, the spare bedlinen in our house is mostly kept in ksirafai's bedroom. OK - for the single reason that the airing cupboard is in Ginnie's bedroom, the spare bed linen and towels are normally kept there. Last night, I wanted to change the bed linen on mine and jez's bed. Ginnie, being a sweetie, grabbed a sheet, duvet cover etc, and left it on our bed before heading off to sleep herself, as I was being slow. I then decided to take the old bed linen off, put it in the washing machine, and then put the fresh bed linen on.
  
  That was a bad time to find out that Ginnie had grabbed a single duvet cover by mistake.
  
  I wound up spending last night trying to share a folded up duvet inside a single duvet cover with jez. On the plus side, I don't think we've been quite so cuddly while sleeping for years. It was like being a fresh new couple again. I'm actually still feeling surprisingly affectionate because of that this morning.
  
  Well, either that or I'm just still feeling the urge to cling to jez for warmth. It is quite chilly in the sitting room right now...



• I'm having odd chicken and egg ponderings this morning to do with physical affection/expression thereof and the emotional significance of it. I've always vaguely thought of physical affection as an expression of emotions which were already there. A couple of days ago, I found an article online suggesting the opposite. According to this article, your actions can actually shape your emotions - in the context of the article, a married couple who are having problems can actually rekindle some of the flames by pushing themselves into physical affection/petting etc. It is now floating through my brain, and I'm pondering my own responses to people.
  
  On one hand, I suppose we are shaped by how others treat us. On a really basic level, I guess there are a lot of folk out there who can switch from 'not really noticed her' to 'I wanna f**k her' when given the right physical signals, but I think I always thought that the basic emotions had to be there first.
  
  Opinions? What comes first? The emotions or the physical expression thereof? Is it possible to change one's emotion responses to someone/a situation depending on the physical expression thereof?