I Guess I Only Visit Once A Year?

 Happy 2025! 

Aside from terrible due to the political climate, disappearing civil rights, various wars, declining economy & global warming how is everyone?? Good? Me too. 

Honestly, in the grand scheme of things I am very good. Please believe me when I say that I’m fully aware of how lucky I am to have been born into a white, middle class family that’s based in the bluest of blue states. If I’d been born in say, Mississippi my life would be very different. 

So what have I been up to over the last year? Not much really. I went on a bunch of cruises, took on a lot more at work. In retrospect that wasn’t the best idea. It was fun to learn some new things but the more I learned, the more I learned things I didn’t  love about the company. Nothing illegal or unethical or I would have quit immediately. It’s just that nothing is standardized. Which is great for customers (sorta)  but it’s like constantly recreating the wheel. Which frustrated me to no end. At the end of the day, it was just work. When I hit the point that I dreaded every morning, I started looking for a new job and found one within 72 hours. It’s fine, I’ve gone into this role with A very different mindset and I’m not going to volunteer to take on more work then my role demands. It’s just a job, my real life is outside of work.

In happier news my son has a new job! He loves it and I’m very proud of him for making the jump. It’s hard to leave a job you have seniority and lots of time off in. But this change will be better for him in the long run. 

My older SD moved back home, which is very nice. I know a lot of parents don’t like having adult kids move back home - I get it. But that’s not us, we love spending time with our kids and like their friends and partners. Please come and stay!!  I wish my son would consider moving in with us but that’s a hard no from him, oh well. 


In other news, I have fallen in love with TikTok - probably not good but what can I say? It’s sort of like a replacement for the old blog days only instead of reading you see & hear the person. I’ve posted a couple times but apparently I’m not very likable, I’ll admit to being a bit of a troll, blame it on the perimenopause but I have zero patience for people that whine and complain and want the rest of the universe to fix their lives for them. I hate to sound like a republican but, we’ve all been in tough places, figure it out? Or don’t and suffer? And don’t get me wrong, there is a big  difference between venting about tough situations or voicing grief and posting a rant about not being saved by…something or someone and then they usually ask for money. Sigh. I’ve slowly learned to not comment and swipe away. The block feature has also come in very handy. 

What else went on this year… lots that I just can’t remember.  I’m going to try to come back here and write  every week, It will be good for me. Writing is a muscle, right?


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