Day 3: How Can I Already Be Behind?

I've decided that even though I feel pressure to do all the things I want to do, I will not give in to feeling like I'm behind already.

I did some art today, I worked (trying to finish up a project that needs to be done tomorrow), I watched an episode of "Outlander" which I started yesterday on the recommendation of a friend. I didn't read but I had a headache until about 2 hours ago, so I'm giving myself a break. I'll read some tomorrow. I watched a lesson in Domestika, so I'm prepping for the next activity.

So far, so good, really. I still have lots of things I want to do to start this year, but I have always felt that January is the time to reflect and clear out the old year and move into the new.

Day 2: Back to the Blog

I make no promises to myself about posting daily or regularly - we all know how that usually goes. For now, I'm content to keep posting here.

I still have a raging headache - sinus infection that is clearing up. It makes it hard to concentrate on anything. I want to do some drawing or painting, but if I hold my head to look down at the paper, there is pounding pressure, so I'm holding off. I did some hands (related to my classes online) and posted on FB.

I just completed the first season of Bridgerton on Netflix, recommended by my friend Julie. It was quite good, actually. Now I'm looking for the next thing. I think I will settle for some reading tonight. I'm reading the new Fannie Flagg book and will be reading "What Unites Us" by Dan Rather, which I started and stopped. My goal is to record what I'm reading, watching and listening to to help track movement in life since I'm not going anywhere or doing anything really of note otherwise.

Other notables:

Current favorite song: La La Latch - Pentatonix, New Year's Day - Pentatonix

Musical I'm listening to: Dear Evan Hanson

I'm grateful to have a long weekend, although I wish I'd taken another day off. I hope my headache goes away soon.

Farewell, 2020! Welcome, 2021!

Happy New Year! It is 2021 - FINALLY!

While I don't believe that the changing of the year waves a magic do-over wand and erases the terrible things that have happened in 2020, I do think the changing of the year opens us up to new hope.

I don't think that all of the things 2020 brought us are bad - if we had to go through some of these things (cultural reckoning, pandemic, climate change realities hitting home), we needed to learn something and take whatever good we could out of it.

I am taking a renewed sense of connection with me into 2021. I have made contact with a lot of folks in my life who I have not been in close contact with for a long time. Some people, I'm in regular contact with now, some periodic, some just a hello text once in a while. Regardless of the proximity, I feel my people around me more than I did.

I am taking with me a creative drive that I haven't felt in a long time. I am missing theatre and interpreting theatre something fierce - it is the one thing that still consistently makes me cry. But I am bringing in art and drawing, and other creative pursuits - stretching and growing. I like that. It feels right.

I'm bringing in more music to my life - mostly Pentatonix and musical theatre stuff (Hamilton, Dear Evan Hanson, Les Miserables) but music is so healing. It helps calm me and helps me sleep.

I have way more ideas and plans for the new year than I should and I know that I will fall down on some of them, but some of them I won't! That's growth right there.

Anyway, welcome to 2021! May we find some hope and peace and eventually, some hugs in real life.