~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.
> 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.
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
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