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Long time no seen

~melyanna

~bartender I'd like a nice, cool IPA. Thank you!

I can't believe I was last here a year and a half ago!

In those past months there was a lot of travel, a lot of work (burnout levels of "a lot"), some really bad stuff, some really good stuff, some in between good and bad.

I have just come back from a 3 weeks long break, the first long break from work in... I don't even know how many years!

This is why I am actually finding the energy to pick up my laptop again and blow some dust off of my hobbies.

I have always described myself as a binge worker, and especially during COVID lock-downs, work has pretty much become my identity.

I promise myself to find a better work-life balance, but I am not sure I actually know how to do it.

Therapy has been helping a bit with it, and with having a more positive outlook on life, but it's hard work and it does not come easy as I get older.

Anyway, today has been good. Warm. But good. :)

If you read until the end of this post, thinking I would actually get to some point... I am sorry! I just wanted to check in and sit at the Pub with a good pint and good company.

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

> I can't believe I was last here a year and a half ago!

Tiii-hi-hi-hime is on my (and ~tffb's) side... yes it is.

> In those past months there was a lot of travel, a lot of
> work (burnout levels of "a lot"), some really bad stuff,
> some really good stuff, some in between good and bad.

Do belabor the travel details.

> If you read until the end of this post, thinking I would
> actually get to some point... I am sorry! I just wanted
> to check in and sit at the Pub with a good pint and good
> company.

I honestly don't feel lured in under false pretext, but must admit a handle ending in 'anna' reminds me of the Beatles version of a song by that name, and that that's what triggered my reading to the end.

~tffb wrote (thread):

hi ~melyanna

Good to see you. Been a min. I think we spoke years ago (on Midnight, Write.as, somewhere).

I don't even know where to start/go with writing these days. Sometimes writing a blip or diary entry is nice,needed, other times it's like punching my happiness in the face. Big difficulties I have with all that.

Be well