Softly

This morning I had my MRI. The first thing they do is give you an outfit to wear. A lot of clothing has metal in it, rivets in jeans, underwire in bras, metallic threads in other clothes, so to be safe you have to change clothes. But it was not your standard run of the mill hospital gown, oh no, I got scrubs. And oh my gosh they were so comfortable.

What a great step up from the am I covered or exposing myself here gowns. And even the caplette and jeans look I get to sport for mammograms. This, this is great. When I told Brent about how comfy they were he asked if I kept them. Which I totally would have if it had been and option. But alas no...

When I got home I took off the jeans I had worn to go to the doctor's office and put on my house pants and... well...

Sure, it's not scrubs, actually, but it's the same sort of thing. I wear soft clothes most of the time now. I've talked about it being a change that happened during Covid that I never really went back away from. I am a soft clothes wearer 80% of the time now.

It used to be that soft clothes, or pajama days, were special occasions. Thanksgiving was a soft clothes day, for instance. If you were home sick that was a soft clothes day. My mom called them grubbies. If you were going to be home and nobody was going to see you feel free to wear your grubbies. But other than that regular clothes. Hard clothes. Jeans, skirts and tights, things that could be worn to run errands. Though now, if it was warm enough I'd totally wear this to run errands so even that taboo has gone by the wayside.

It reminds me of the advice not to save your things for special occasions. Use your good silver and your fine china. Drink that bottle of wine you've been saving. Don't wait for a special occasion that might not ever seem special enough. Use your fancy things now.

So sort of like that advice, but flipped. Don't wait for Thanksgiving or when you are sick to wear your comfiest clothes. Don't think that you have to have an excuse to wear your softest things. Every day is a day that deserves the soft clothes. You deserve the soft clothes.

No guilt. No shame.

You made it another day on this planet, celebrate with your best softest grubbies.

Ahhh...