2021 in review
This was such a nothing year. Which is good and bad.
My whole year was pretty much routine. The highlights were such small things. I was so excited, thinking about all the things I would do once I was vaccinated, but I largely didn't do any of them. (Though I am quite grateful to be vaccinated.)
I took an overnight trip to Ashland, but there was no theater. Even when the theaters reopened, I have been kind of too nervous to go be in a big crowd, so I have not been to see anything. The other highlights of my year were such small things like getting to take my mom out to lunch for her birthday and eating in a restaurant, and then going to an actual book sale and getting to supplement all my dollar store reads.
My mom is still largely stable, which I am also grateful for. My kitty is getting to be a bonafide Old Girl but she's doing well.
I wanted a new job for so very long and finally got one. The pay raise is a godsend but the rest of it feels like a very big adjustment -- I think because it's both returning to an office after so long at home in addition to being somewhere else where I don't really know what I'm doing.
I kept writing this year, and did a really big project that took a lot of work and I felt pretty proud of myself for. I did write fewer words than last year and I'm definitely slowing down, for various reasons, though I still need the escapism very much.
As far as TV/movies go, I've mostly been watching things I've seen before. On weekends at my mom's, we watch Bugs Bunny and Rick Steves and if we're lucky some 80s movie on cable and if we're not lucky we watch Golden Girls which is still pretty good.
I read a lot of books from Dollar Tree this year. The library is open again, and does delivery which I love so much. Going back through my book journal, I was reminded of where I was when I read various books, and I feel like I did a lot of reading waiting for my allergy shots, even though that's only half an hour every three weeks or so.
Here's what I liked the best of what I read.
Monsters: A Love Story - Liz Kay
Spoiler Alert - Olivia Dade
Con Ed - Matthew Klein
Interred with their Bones - Jennifer Lee Carroll
A Place to Hang the Moon - Kate Albus
My whole year was pretty much routine. The highlights were such small things. I was so excited, thinking about all the things I would do once I was vaccinated, but I largely didn't do any of them. (Though I am quite grateful to be vaccinated.)
I took an overnight trip to Ashland, but there was no theater. Even when the theaters reopened, I have been kind of too nervous to go be in a big crowd, so I have not been to see anything. The other highlights of my year were such small things like getting to take my mom out to lunch for her birthday and eating in a restaurant, and then going to an actual book sale and getting to supplement all my dollar store reads.
My mom is still largely stable, which I am also grateful for. My kitty is getting to be a bonafide Old Girl but she's doing well.
I wanted a new job for so very long and finally got one. The pay raise is a godsend but the rest of it feels like a very big adjustment -- I think because it's both returning to an office after so long at home in addition to being somewhere else where I don't really know what I'm doing.
I kept writing this year, and did a really big project that took a lot of work and I felt pretty proud of myself for. I did write fewer words than last year and I'm definitely slowing down, for various reasons, though I still need the escapism very much.
As far as TV/movies go, I've mostly been watching things I've seen before. On weekends at my mom's, we watch Bugs Bunny and Rick Steves and if we're lucky some 80s movie on cable and if we're not lucky we watch Golden Girls which is still pretty good.
I read a lot of books from Dollar Tree this year. The library is open again, and does delivery which I love so much. Going back through my book journal, I was reminded of where I was when I read various books, and I feel like I did a lot of reading waiting for my allergy shots, even though that's only half an hour every three weeks or so.
Here's what I liked the best of what I read.
Monsters: A Love Story - Liz Kay
Spoiler Alert - Olivia Dade
Con Ed - Matthew Klein
Interred with their Bones - Jennifer Lee Carroll
A Place to Hang the Moon - Kate Albus