The truth is, I never left you
Feb. 5th, 2022 07:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grammarwomanGoing almost two years without posting here was never a deliberate choice, but more a result of having nothing momentous to report, a trade-off I will take for the absence (mostly) of Bad Stuff. My immediate household is all vaxxed and boosted and has avoided getting COVID, though I did pick up a wicked cold from spending Christmas at my parents' house, visiting with several family members I hadn't seen since before the pandemic. I still have my job. The kid has been in person for school since August and doing much better scholastically as a result. (Last school year was a nightmare grades-wise and emotionally.) The husband is still unemployed, though he's been doing better about helping around the house. The dog is my faithful companion; I am grateful to her for providing the impetus to get out of the house at least once a day to walk her.
The extended family is not doing great. The older members keep getting older; we're starting to talk elder care and a possible change of living situations for my mother- and father-in-law. The younger generation is dealing with stress from balancing that outcome with kid-care and health versus jobs and living situations. I am so grateful that my kid was 16 at the right time, and eligible for vaccination and booster, because the stress of continuing to send him to school with a mask as his only protection would have had me at anxiety level BEARS.
So yeah, a complete lack of posting to my space. I have been popping up in other people's comment sections here and there, and I've been keeping up with my reading page. To come clean, though, the major reason for my absence is my old high school BB system finding a new home with the same old friends and a bunch of new ones; it's been a joy and a blessing to integrate back into that extended family. It certainly got me through the high anxiety times of the pandemic, election roller coasters, and other political whiplash. But having that outlet there meant I had little brainspace left to post here, even with all the mental entries I made and discarded as too much effort for too little content.
Right now I'm in a contented state of the weather having finally snowed a proper amount, such that the ground is all covered and no mud/grass/grossness is showing through, and the forecast is cold enough that it should stick around a while. It makes my Northern European/Scandinavian, hygge-loving heritage so satisfied. The kid has also been on snow day vacation for the past three days, though he had to get up even earlier this morning to go with the school bands to a jazz band festival. At least I didn't have to drive him, just drop him off that the school and pick him up in a few minutes.
In short, Hi! I've missed talking to you all.
This is getting long, so I will make another post about participating in Festivids for the first time in AGES.
The extended family is not doing great. The older members keep getting older; we're starting to talk elder care and a possible change of living situations for my mother- and father-in-law. The younger generation is dealing with stress from balancing that outcome with kid-care and health versus jobs and living situations. I am so grateful that my kid was 16 at the right time, and eligible for vaccination and booster, because the stress of continuing to send him to school with a mask as his only protection would have had me at anxiety level BEARS.
So yeah, a complete lack of posting to my space. I have been popping up in other people's comment sections here and there, and I've been keeping up with my reading page. To come clean, though, the major reason for my absence is my old high school BB system finding a new home with the same old friends and a bunch of new ones; it's been a joy and a blessing to integrate back into that extended family. It certainly got me through the high anxiety times of the pandemic, election roller coasters, and other political whiplash. But having that outlet there meant I had little brainspace left to post here, even with all the mental entries I made and discarded as too much effort for too little content.
Right now I'm in a contented state of the weather having finally snowed a proper amount, such that the ground is all covered and no mud/grass/grossness is showing through, and the forecast is cold enough that it should stick around a while. It makes my Northern European/Scandinavian, hygge-loving heritage so satisfied. The kid has also been on snow day vacation for the past three days, though he had to get up even earlier this morning to go with the school bands to a jazz band festival. At least I didn't have to drive him, just drop him off that the school and pick him up in a few minutes.
In short, Hi! I've missed talking to you all.
This is getting long, so I will make another post about participating in Festivids for the first time in AGES.
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Date: 2022-02-06 11:38 pm (UTC)Snow! I am very happy about the snow. :D And happy to be posting again.
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Date: 2022-02-09 05:01 am (UTC)I just finished up my post of the revised versions, including updates to A03. Now to respond to all the lovely comments!