Playing Catch-Up

Embarrassingly enough I broke my promise to write every day literally the day after my last post. So now that it’s Friday, I can refocus my efforts and catch up on the lack of posting. I had been so busy throughout the daytime this week that when I finally got the time to sit down each night I would think about what I wanted to write about for so long that I would fall asleep. Next thing I knew the sun would be rising. Whoopsies. Funny enough this is also the third time I’ve re-written this post. I think I need to think a little less when it comes to blogging.

This week was the first time during this quarantine where I really felt desperate for social interaction. So much so that I started to have vivid dreams about partying with my friends that felt so unbelievably real - almost like the opposite of a night terror. One dream in particular I was at Berghain having the time of my life, then to my dismay my alarm blared in my ear and I woke up to my dog snoring at the foot of my bed. While partying has taken a bit of a back seat in my life over the last year, I plan to get some partying out of my system when things start to kind of return to normal. Being realistic, things won’t ever return back to the way they were before…I’ll develop my thoughts on that a little more before discussing it further in a future post.

At this point I’ve lost sense of time and I’m getting my days mixed up. I’m sure everyone else is experiencing something similar. Now would be good time to figure out a way to break up the monotony of the week through some goal setting and maybe a reward system? I’ll let you all know what I figure out as I’ve been in a bit of a mental rut this past week.

Gonna cut this post short since it’s Friday and I’m currently rudely ignoring my friends on Zoom.

That was a nice 3 month trial, where's my refund?

Damn, 2020 has been a real shit show. I think at the beginning of this year a lot of us thought this would be our best year yet…PSYCH! Well actually, let’s look at it this way with the half glass full...maybe it can still be our best year yet for personal development.

My aunt called me up one morning a couple of weeks ago and told me that I really have a talent for writing and should be blogging daily. I sat on that for a bit…clearly, but after much thought, I think blogging on a continual basis will be a good form of therapy to feed my extroverted soul. Who knows, maybe I’ll even bug my friends a little less with my rants. P.S. If you’re one of my friends that’s reading this, this is the part where you laugh cause you all know I’m the shining example of the memes going around about checking on your extroverted friends. This is my written commitment to go full 90s kid Xanga blogger style on y’all. Otherwise known as my raw, unrefined, and unapologetic word vomit on the internet.

Right now I’m sitting here at my parents house with my anxiety-ridden 14 year lab while dusting off my blog site and reflecting on my previous post about all the things that were gonna change for me in 2020. Surprisingly, a lot of those changes have been realized already! Even if a majority of those changes came naturally as a result of the quarantine, I’m still pretty pleased with my progress. I will say the one change that isn’t quite happening is boycotting drinking, but I’m not gonna be hard on myself about it. I’ve reserved drinking to once a week as a form of celebration. And I’ll be damned if making it through a week of solitude as an extreme extrovert isn’t something to celebrate about with your friends around the world over a Zoom Happy Hour.

So what have I been doing during quarantine? Well…I’m that person that has too many hobbies, so as you can imagine I haven’t been short of things to do. Here’s a list of skills/hobbies I’ve been working if you’re looking for ideas:

• Mixing/DJ’ing

• Building a fashion brand

• Fashion design, materials selection, and manufacturing

• Plant-based cooking

• Options Trading

• Yoga

• Writing (well duh)

I have a few other things queued up that I would like to work on, but I’m gonna pump the brakes on those for now while I focus on (some kind of) mastery of these things.

In closing, this is a really interesting and difficult time for many. I know for a lot of people it’s scary for them to be alone with their own thoughts for such an extended period of time, but I assure you once you overcome that fear you’ll be gifted with one of the most amazing periods of self-discovery in your life.

Stay safe out there my fellow humans, and hopefully you’ll find some entertainment while following me along on my writing journey.