Maintenance.

In a moment of deep adulthood, the sort where you're the one taking care of yourself, I'm trying some new sheets tonight. A new fitted sheet, a new duvet cover. I bought them because Ikea was selling them, because I wanted fitted sheets by themselves, and because I wanted something monochromatic. There's times it's surprisingly difficult to find things with only one color. Not even a fringe. I ran into this trying to find a rug a few years ago and ended up not buying one at all, because that was easier. I didn't care it was two shades of green; I only wanted one. That was the level I was going on, which was a level beyond what the sales people could work with.

These sheets aren't quite as soft, even after being washed, and some of that's on them being so new and some of that's me gambling on buying them online. I didn't want to deal with trying to navigate all the different linen stores, especially the ones that are merely departments within much larger stores. All that said, it's not like I'm trying out a completely new set of sheets - I've got regular sheets that work fine, I just needed the fitted ones. So there's some continuity going on, which should help enough I won't struggle too much with the adjustment.