12 Things I Have Learned Inside 12 Months of Covid/Quarantine/Remote Work

I hope this finds you happy and healthy. I was looking at the calendar today and noticed it has been almost a year that I have been working full time from home. It seems like just yesterday we were sent home and yet that also feels like a lifetime ago.

I thought I’d share 12 things I have learned inside Covid/Quarantine in the last 12 months.

Number 12 is my favorite.

A Reminder From Me, For What It’s Worth

To put this out there and hit publish is a different story because I know that what I might share below might cause some people to no longer read this blog, follow me in real life, or think I’m some sort of Pollyanna-racist- bigot- and honestly that’s going to have to be okay. Because what I want to share is a reminder…

What I Have Learned After 3 Months Sober

For several years I tried to find some sort of balance. ‘I will only buy one booze purchase a month and when it’s gone it’s gone’. ‘I won’t have any booze in the house and will only have some if we go out to eat, a wedding, or ____ insert whatever that was apparently not my house’. The rules I tried to put in place to feel better about my choices didn’t really help.

Today I Wrote My Eulogy

Good Morning Beautiful People, As the saying goes ‘the early bird gets the worm’.. and since giving up booze, processed food, and now non essential shopping (which you can read about in my previous blog ‘A Year of Less-Day One’) my replacement in their place has been exercise: more specifically long runs fueled by early bed…

A Year Of Less : Day One

Good Morning Lovely Readers: Our summer nights have been filled with baseball and chill evenings. After our littles go to bed I can be found coloring with a mocktail or reading one of the latest self help/ improvement books I’ve requested from the library. A particular book that I finished this week was entitled ‘A…