I got my roll on today.

I got my roll on today. It's sunny and in the upper 30s. Shockingly, I didn't even need a jacket!  The sun here is AMAZING. As long as there's no freezing wind it feels nice while the sun's out. 

Butt padding and new helmet courtesy of my mom for Christmas. I had on my ear-covering visor and didn't realized how stupidly I was wearing my helmet. You'd think SOMEONE *ahem Shaun* might have pointed it out, but whatever. 😂 I'll make sure it's on better next time.

I had fun. I needed some exercise! ❤️

The business end of Cubba.

The business end of Cubba. You'd think the end with teeth would be more deadly, but the farts that come out of this dog... PHEW!

I don't do New Years resolutions; however...

I don't do New Years resolutions; however, I thought about a thing I'd like to do and realized that today would be the perfect day to start (because the date is easy to remember).

I used to post all of my stuff on MySpace.  Then the world switched to Facebook and so did I (eventually).  I have blogs that are so sadly neglected that I've been meaning to update for literal years.  Facebook didn't make it easy to keep similar content together until you could put text-only in albums but there is still a ton of content that I just wouldn't easily see by going through albums.

Then I thought:  Facebook Memories.  I'm going to slowly but surely update my blogs using Facebook Memories because there is a lot of stuff that I would like to have better organized and I really don't want to lose it should Facebook go the way of MySpace.

So... now I have a thing to do that starts today.  I'm going to put a task reminder in my phone to stay on track.  That means I will update (at least) 11 years worth of content day by day until the end of this year.  I guess I'm a nerd because I am honestly pretty excited.

Haha.  I played myself into having a resolution - on New Years Day. 😂😂😂

My current plan for this blog:

I had such grand plans to update this blog with all of my rescue, rehab, and pet stories.  It's been literal years and I haven't found the time or energy to do it so I've come to the conclusion that it's not going to happen.  I've made the decision to be ok with that.  The way society switches from social media platform to social media platform makes it difficult to keep up and keep everything together.  I simply don't have the energy or willpower to cross-post pictures, videos, and stories repeatedly.

Most of the posts on this blog were saved from MySpace before it became what it is now.  After leaving MySpace I moved over to using Facebook primarily and pretty much neglected blogging.  Facebook has changed a lot over the years and for a long time you could not add posts without photos to albums.  That has changed now, thank goodness, but it means that many of my animal posts would not be easily found.  On the bright side, it is the first day of 2022 and Facebook Memories are now a thing so I will do my very best to check my memories every day this year and cross-post any animal-related posts that I find.  That will be a very slow but steady way to get my animal posts together.

Other than that, the current plan is to buy a domain name sometime in the near future and create a webpage for myself.  Until I get that up and running, here is a list of links to my easily-found animal posts and albums on Facebook:

Foster Kids

Rehab

Forever Kids

Bugs

First accomplishment of the New Year:

First accomplishment of the New Year:  I passed my first ServiceNow Delta exam. 😁

I'm on the struggle bus today.

I'm on the struggle bus today.

I went to bed early last night and had planned to wake up early today but I had nightmares and ended up sleeping until LATE this afternoon.  Despite being up and doing things I still feel really tired and drowsy.  It's probably a little breakthrough depression.  It's not like I've been doing a lot of self-care lately.

So this past week I've focused more on my to-do list than anything else.  We really got a lot done and that's been great.  However, I didn't skate for a whole week so I basically didn't get any exercise other than doing housework.  I didn't get any sunshine because I was working indoors.  I didn't actually have fun because chores aren't fun outside of the satisfaction of them being done.  I guess the way I'm feeling today actually makes sense and I have only myself to blame.  Noted.

Yesterday was sunny and cool and we all decided to go to the park.  Shaun and the kids walked and I skated.  I was SO STUPIDLY HAPPY to have my wheels back on that I honestly could have cried.  We ended up not staying long because the weather (despite being a good temperature with plenty of sun) was SO WINDY.  The gusts were cold and strong enough to literally push me when I was on flat ground.  I did get a workout, though, because skating even slightly uphill can be tough.  Doing it against wind resistance on top of that is next-level.  I'm feeling that in my thighs today.

Other stuff on my mind:  It's almost 2022.  I keep thinking it's 2020 so it's messing with my brain a lot.  This year (2021) has been the most unsettled and weird year of my life.  So much happened that was out of the norm and just... what the hell?  You know?  I think a lot of people are feeling that (or that's what the internet says, anyway).  I'm hoping that 2022 will bring me a job and some much-welcome stability.

Another thing that is on my mind is that like... y'all know we're still in a pandemic, right?  I try not to put my judgy-pants on but my goodness the holiday photos and lack of masks and distancing really got my anxiety up, especially for a bunch of my Alabama friends and family because I know a bunch of y'all (loudly and proudly) aren't vaccinated.  I don't really know what to say except that I hope everyone will be ok.  I know a lot of reports say that Omicron is milder than Delta, but I've read that it's still very dangerous for unvaccinated people (as would also be the very real possibility of the hospitals filling up and being unable to care for everyone).

I don't know.  The pandemic in general is weighing heavily on me at the moment - probably because there is another surge in progress.  To my knowledge I have only lost one person that I actually know to COVID (a distant friend).  Anxiety keeps telling me that my luck with that will run out eventually and that the next surge will take out people closer to me.  It is, uh, very taxing (to say the least) trying to live like this.  But we're all in this together so I am definitely not alone or special in my struggle.

Anyway.  I guess I've put my thoughts out there and now I'm off to do something else.  I don't know what with my low-energy ass, but something.  Love to you all.  ❤

Poor Shaun...

Poor Shaun just wants to play his game but a bunch of the fur-kids are demanding snuggles. What a hard life. 😂😂😂

Shaun better get comfy because I'm joining the pile! 😂❤️