Hey. Who wants to read about someone else's pandemic trauma? Yeah, baby. I know what you want to. Grab a bottle of water, buckle up and here we go. You would think that in a time of social media, instant email, text messaging, the countless chat platforms in text and audio and in video formats, and good ol' fashion phone callin' that there would be ample ways of battling loneliness. You would expect that co-habitating in a townhouse with the person you married would be enough

I got myself a Skillshare subscription. The urge to learn new things is strong. With the pandemic making me feel intense levels of stagnation and loneliness, I had to do something structured. Skillshare has the kind of structure I need. Sure, youtube is free but i need that bullet pointed lesson plan and sequential format to focus. So far, I like what I've seen. I've been hitting the self care channels hard. As a white middle aged woman, I think this is a right of passage. I

My therapist is encouraging me to do more journaling. Blogging used to be my jam. I had a LiveJournal account and it was the safest place for me to publicly complain about how terrible my life was during college. Sympathetic ears were there. It was nice. I used to write every week on the RT site when we had the ability to search and friend and follow and discuss. Most of the community that I wrote to are no longer there. I have a blog on my personal website (OH HAI! YOU'RE LO