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Goodbye 2021. I'm not going to miss you.

Kind of hoped that I'd have more to talk about for another end of the year post. I do not. 2021 was a close repeat of 2020, only with more vaccines, and slightly less lockdown. Slightly. Like 10% less lockdown. I don't know, I am not great at math. As of right now, my province is under level alert 3, which... all things considered, could be worse. 50% capacity in most places, limit of 20 people per private gathering. We're stuck like this until January 10th. No one likes it. No one . We're getting record levels of cases, and it's to the point that contact tracing is backlogged. I don't know. I'm just kind of... done, I guess. It's been a long, long two years and I will not be sad to see 2021 go. Nothing happened. It's like the entire world got put on pause for an entire year. It was weird . I did not get much written this year. My 4thewords total says around 368k, and that's better than I expected. I didn't get anything finished. There were

So, uh, early last month I started posting a serial again! Yeah, I just didn't want to mention anything about it before I got the ball rolling (look, I know how bad my own momentum is, and therefore, I needed a while). It's up on Wattpad . Part of this is that I'm trying to fight my own perfectionism, which is why it's an early draft. This might all get cut or cleaned up a lot later on for an ebook release, but right now, it's a bit meandering and light on description. Some people might still want to read that, I don't know, but it's better than me having this sit on my computer/4thewords account and just fretting over how good or not good it is. Part of this is that I haven't been posting anything in public for three years, and it's like I have to get back on the horse, relearn how to walk, whatever metaphor works best, I don't know. It may or may not take me a while to get my footing, but I am also a bad judge of that. If you've read The

One year after the pandemic began

Over here on my little island we're just coming out of level 5 lockdown. For the last month, we've been dealing with a massive cluster of cases along with one of the Covid-19 variants. It appears to be settling down now. We've had the longest provincial election ever (which still isn't over, by the way!). We have a vaccine plan now so the ball is finally rolling on that. I am genuinely not sure what day it is because of how repetitive everything has been. In fact, I started using a planner not because I had anything to keep track of, but because it's proof that something happened each day. It is not a very big planner, just an A6-sized one. I've also been spending a lot of time playing Stardew Valley. It's taken me three months to watch a single season of Supernatural (because I figured I may as well watch the entire show now it's over. Yes, I know it goes off the rails after like season five. No, I don't actually care. I don't watch television

Well, here we are. Coming up on the end of the weirdest year ever . Or at least, I think we are. It is December, right? I have had no sense of time for the last eight or so months. Everything blurs together. I would like to say that I'm going into 2021 with a whole bunch of stuff written, but... I do not. It was a lot of starting and stopping all year long. Could not drum up the energy to focus on anything for very long. It's starting to improve, but still too early to tell if it can be sustained. I'm also pretty sure that at the beginning of the year I said that I was going to post more about writing with ADHD and then... did not do that (which feels kind of on brand, doesn't it?). I mean, I've been spending the last eight-ish months living with even more time blindness than I have in my entire life. Of course, playing Stardew Valley did not help with this -- and I only got into it in the last couple of months. I could go with never seeing the words "in thes

Around eight months ago, there were snow drifts almost as tall as I am (not that I'm very tall, of course). My province is currently under forest fire warning because of the surprise heat wave. So there's been a bit of a weather swing. I have not been writing very much in general. Something about the whole general atmosphere makes it very difficult, but I'm trying. I think I'm on the third draft of the same story because I can't make it work right. I also managed to write a script during Camp NaNoWriMo July without any sort of a B-plot. It didn't come out great, but there might be the seeds for something better in there. I don't know yet. I've also been refreshing my HTML5 and CSS3 knowledge because it's been years since I did anything with either (from back before they had the numbers and were just HTML and CSS). But actually getting something finished ? Not so much. I've been mostly just reading a lot. Wow, this has been a scintillating post

It's still snowing.

Not much to update here. It keeps snowing despite it nearly being May (though it's usually followed by rain). I, like everyone else around, am just waiting for something to change, hopefully for the better. So I've started using this time to do some personal research -- I've been reading a lot of non-fiction lately and am trying to apply some of the methods and principles to my life, but I'm probably not doing that great with it. It's getting there, it takes some time to click for me. Insight Timer and Woebot are keeping me less anxious during this time too. Two months ago I would have never said that I liked meditation, but honestly, I kind of look forward to it now each day. And while Woebot is probably not a good replacement for a therapist, it's still good for walking you through some cognitive behavioral techniques (also, Woebot is very cute, which is always a bonus). And that's about it.