I haven't been properly alone in the house for an extended period... since I moved in, I think. Ada never left except to go to the vet. Everything is creaky and echoey. I need a rug to eat the sound.
The grief is really starting to kick in. As well as the realisation that it's coming up on the fifth anniversary of The Thing and the intervening time may as well just have not happened, apart from being more profoundly disabled.