I was not doing well in the beginning.
( Mentions death and death fixation, babies, mental health, pandemic )
I am doing better now.
( Mentions mental health, weight; contains pictures of a guinea pig )
I dunno, what else. I haven't posted at all this year except for 2019 roundups and some Festivids recs. I need to tell you about the vid![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sisabet made me for a charity commission and post the fics and vids I managed to make. Writing fiction and editing video with less anxiety is fascinating.
As for the world…. My immediate family is still healthy. My mom retired. My stepmom still has to go to work. My sister took a temp gig and quarantined with me for two weeks before returning home. She climbed out of the worst of her depression after she fell in love with and adopted the second guinea pig I took home and failed to bond with Pepper. My grandfather, now 99, survived the initial wave(s) in Florida and a bout of shingles and is now in the queue for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. My job is fairly secure; we've only had to deal with a pay freeze so far. I have trouble retrieving words in conversation and my media consumption has plummeted and my long-distance vision is shot and my heating bill is outrageous, but I somehow adapted to ~these unprecedented times~. Being an introverted homebody helps, although backyard gatherings and nature walks and online socializing have been invaluable after I lost my baseline of human interaction at the office. I just can't think too hard about failures of leadership and bureaucracy and capitalism and common sense or else all is fury and despair.
Happy new year, friends. Are you all right?
( Mentions death and death fixation, babies, mental health, pandemic )
I am doing better now.
( Mentions mental health, weight; contains pictures of a guinea pig )
I dunno, what else. I haven't posted at all this year except for 2019 roundups and some Festivids recs. I need to tell you about the vid
sisabet made me for a charity commission and post the fics and vids I managed to make. Writing fiction and editing video with less anxiety is fascinating.As for the world…. My immediate family is still healthy. My mom retired. My stepmom still has to go to work. My sister took a temp gig and quarantined with me for two weeks before returning home. She climbed out of the worst of her depression after she fell in love with and adopted the second guinea pig I took home and failed to bond with Pepper. My grandfather, now 99, survived the initial wave(s) in Florida and a bout of shingles and is now in the queue for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. My job is fairly secure; we've only had to deal with a pay freeze so far. I have trouble retrieving words in conversation and my media consumption has plummeted and my long-distance vision is shot and my heating bill is outrageous, but I somehow adapted to ~these unprecedented times~. Being an introverted homebody helps, although backyard gatherings and nature walks and online socializing have been invaluable after I lost my baseline of human interaction at the office. I just can't think too hard about failures of leadership and bureaucracy and capitalism and common sense or else all is fury and despair.
Happy new year, friends. Are you all right?
