Well, that was the longest hiatus I have taken in my life. Was it really a hiatus though? I did continue working and proceeded to work on my mental health. But it has really been a while since I have kept this site active. I kept paying for it…but, I personally at the time couldn’t be active towards it. I even questioned myself every time I received a notification if I should keep this going. I received messages from people about how what I am doing here has helped people, and you know what, this has helped me too. However, during the last couple years I have personally blocked myself from doing anything on here, until I worked on myself. I don’t want to go into what happened that caused me to feel like there was a wall between me and my own site, that will be for another time, maybe.

So, instead, let me go through what has happened these past couple years, and focus on the positivity! During this time, I have been on two cruises. One was March of 2020, directly before the pandemic, and one this year. Let’s focus more on the first cruise. Why, might you ask? Well, something great came from that one. Just days before going on that cruise, I met for the first time in person, someone I had connected with only online. Someone I now consider my best friend. We spent every day on that cruise together, and would travel the different islands, whether on an excursion, or on our own do it yourself tours. Without her being there, I would not have had as positive of an experience as I did. The next day after getting home from the cruise Canada went into lockdown, as well as the US, where she is from. We felt so isolated, so we started a weekly zoom call, and extended it out to others that were on the Facebook page for that cruise. That was over two years ago, and those weekly zoom calls have continued to this date. Not only has it been on zoom, but occasionally we would meet at different conventions every year. There is even a group chat that we all participate in daily! We celebrate each others’ birthdays, either in person, or virtually. We have grieved together with loses and been a support system for each other when needed. This group that my best friend Lola and I have created have become our family. Without this family, the pandemic would have been harder for me to get through. As it was for everyone, the pandemic was such a difficult time for me. At the beginning of the pandemic I was doing majority of a move by myself, with the help of only two friends on one of the moving dates. Garrett and I were unable to see each other, since the boarders between Canada and the US were closed to each other. He was also going through spinal surgery near the beginning of all of this. My daughter was finishing elementary school, and transitioning to a new school, all of this was online. The job I had at the time I quit to help create something that we didn’t know if it would succeed or not. Thankfully it did succeed, and we received so many positive messages from people all over the world. Some messages of how we helped these individuals through dark moments that they experienced during the pandemic.

Now that things have opened back up again, I have gone back to attending conventions, spending time in nature, and taking care of my mental and physical health. I have started seeing a chiropractor, which I was always afraid to do after hearing so many horror stories. As well, I regularly see a sports therapist. I used to push off that kind of self care for so long, and I am glad I am putting myself first when it comes to this. Personally, I have never felt greater than I do now. It was a long struggle for me to get here since 2019, but here I am!