The ideal day begins with a late morning.

My boyfriend doesn't have to work and I don't have school, so we can lay in bed with one another until ~9:30am. We're both naked and warm and the house is empty, so together in bed we do little and say little. I'm given some puppy attention from time to time, with head scratches and tickles and tons of quiet praise. Noon is when we'll finally drag ourselves away from our phones and out of bed and relax together in the kitchen as we cook a big brunch.

Perfection requires we head to the movies; we'll spend no money on the bus ride, and chuckle at inside jokes while we wait in our seats at the theater, and chatter excitedly about what we've seen as we wander aimlessly around the downtown streets and stop by the river to soak in the sun. Hunger will likely set in while we're there, so we'll head back towards the businesses and find a restaurant to sit in for dinner. Before sunset we'll be home and YouTube will be on the TV with a YouTuber we both like to watch or listen to acting as background noise. Rather than speak and distract one another, we'll talk to each other on Telegram or Discord and say nothing out loud.

By evening I'd want to turn in early for some attention, which can preoccupy us well into the late hours of the night, and we'd finally fall asleep before 3:00am.

A lie-in, which by my standards is getting up at about 6am, followed by a day trip with my partner to somewhere peaceful and green. I particularly love botanical gardens, and formal landscape gardens, as I really like taking photos of the kind of extravagant flowers you get in those sorts of places. If it was a really perfect day, there would also be a coastal walk, so I could see the sea and possibly paddle in the water a bit. And then at the end of the afternoon, I'd go home with my partner, and he'd cook my favourite meal (which varies), and then we'd have a quiet evening in together, watching taiga dramas curled up on the sofa 😍