Hello, it’s been some time since I’ve been in here. Yes, there’s plenty to say.
I’ve not been so far away…just time consumed in other ways.
I got engaged mid 2018, planned a wedding and had a wonderful celebration early 2020. The kind of wonderful parties woth joy, love, drinks good food music singing and dancing. We wnt overseas, but not far, twice for our honeymoon (Fiji & NZ).
Then, a GLOBAL health pandemic hit and life when sliw scary and quiet. People stayed home, worked remote and got scared. We had lockdowns and lots of people got the respiratory virus around the world and died, or have residual disease complications. I am an essential worker so I remained able to leave home and go to work- with increased risk. This went on and off of lockdownd for the next 2yrs. A lot if buisness didn’t survive. E- commerce boomed, people WFH hybrid and remote and chose to live lifestyle instead of big cities. I have had the virus twice, and vaccines too x4 boosters. I was sickest with the very first (tried all the brands astra zenica, pfizer, moderna)
I got pregnant, had my first child in amongst that. I grieve a little that we were so isolated, virtual baby shower etc, minimal visits and physical support. But on some ways it was ok, everyone was home, I wasn’t missing out on anything while in the thick of little babies. I love my child and love being a parent, it isn’t easy but I have appreciated each and every stage for the gift this tiny human gives me.
It took 2yrs to start to feel more like myself, im still learning. I returned to my work profession, studied, did many more projects and some secondments that have stretched and help me grow, be challenged and network in leadership.
I changed, evolved and grew, not entirely the same together with my partner. This new life is a little tedious. We have been a little lost for one another. We work at it, I work on myself. Hoping we find our way back to one another to be the strong united parental unit together.
We still live in our city apartment, and are rapidly growing our of the space. I love it here, the surrounds and space but my partner craves more, we’d have to move further out and away from my work commute abd family (they are all west from me). Property is up and down, interest is high. A lit of rules around stamp duty mortgages, borrowing capacity, occupancy laws came into place now. Everything’s a little more out of reach with reserves and conservative management/lending.
Health, treatments, surgeries, and family & friends illness and death…life got a little safer and worrisome. People I love or have/do know got cancer, did treatment: got better, some died, some ignored symptoms or were masked and now have more advanced stages of their disease process they now are fighting. It’s devastating. Everyone is fighting their own battles. Lessons from the pandemic if you don’t have your health, you won’t have much quality of anything else.
Wars rage around the world Ukraine, Gaza & Palestine, Iraq, (China, North Korea and Russia are being very provocative). Crazy leaders and dictators. The death of a long reigning monarch died england uk, another stepped down for health reasons denmark. Human rights and mistreatment, racism, removed reproductive rights are happening in Western countries of the ‘free world’.a wave of feminism and a me too movement sexualising assault and black lives matter, lgbtqia community. Therapy speak, social media fb, instagram, tik tok, snap chat, Twitter now known as X.
That brings me to now 2.30AM gettong out my thoughts so i can go ba k to sleep.
I considered what I’d do with this blog…kept it, pay the annual fee, let it go. Share more of my thoughts and musings? Oh so many notes app journalling of thoughts and feelings and voice memo recordings. Perhaps it may be good to share some thoughts and ideas.
If you enjoy the read….or find this year’s later…let me know your thoughts. What was happening in your life during this time 2018-2024?
Trove & Treasure 