Yesterday morning, I poured myself a cup of coffee, as is my usual morning ritual, put in some creamer, and then suddenly found myself staring at my dishes in the cabinet above the counter.

Without really thinking about it, I’d opened the cabinet door.

And upon seeing the dishes, I realized that I’m in a new house and things are in different places – the sweetener I was planning to put in my coffee was no longer in the cabinet above the counter as it was in my old kitchen, it now sits on the counter right by my Chemex.

But muscle memory is a real thing and old habits die hard.