Guyyyysss!!!!

I am SO sorry I went M.I.A. for so long out of nowhere! I have been having the worst time battling sicknesses I keep picking up from people over the holidays. It is so great to see everyone, but lately it seems to lead to a lot of passing sicknesses around. I have barely been making it through my normal work schedule so it feels like I haven’t been getting anything else done. There is a lot of stuff in the works because I have been continuing to make small steps forward with everything. Life just seems to continue to force me to go slower than I want with things. It has given me a lot of time to think and rethink things before doing them so I do have a lot of things I am very excited about and will be working towards. I’ll go through a quick summary of what I’ve been up to recently and will get back to work on the projects that I am so excited to get done to share with you.

So, I left you all back in the middle of November. I had a couple more posts planned for the month that never came to life. I was turning 30 at the end of the month, right after Thanksgiving, so I was spending all of my time trying to sort through all the pictures and videos I had taken over the last decade because I thought it would be cool to piece together a video showing what I had been up to from 20 to 30. It sounded so much easier than it turned out to be. I have taken so many pictures and videos over the last decade and I still haven’t made it through sorting them all. So, my plan has changed a little bit with this project and I’m reworking it. I also had planned to do a post related to Thanksgiving, but I ended up sick before I could get to it. I made it out to see my family, had a great weekend and celebrated my birthday, and then ended up sick the very next day.

So, then came December. It started out with the worst sore throat I have ever had that quickly added a horrible migraine. My plans for the month were to get out and explore and find as many animals as possible since the weather was so perfect. Whatever bug I ended up with wouldn’t stop, though, and I did very little other than sleep and sit miserably on my couch living off of chicken noodle soup, cough drops, cold medicine and as much water as I could drink. I missed a ton of work and wasn’t getting to do any of my Christmas things I had been looking so forward to. Thankfully the week leading up to Christmas I finally started feeling back to my usual self and could get some goodies made, some final gifts found and all the presents wrapped with a few decorations up. I traveled out and celebrated with my family and we were able to make it out to a Christmas mart, make even more goodies and watched Christmas movies, and did all the things I hadn’t been able to really get to do. I had a great time, but sadly my nephew ended up sick while I was out there and I think I picked up whatever he had because I ended up sick the day I got back again. So, I spend my NYE sick and miserable in my p.j.’s. Let’s just say it was not my favorite NYE by far.

2024

So.. We get to 2024.. I don’t really know how I feel about it so far, but at least I can say that yesterday I finally started feeling 100% again so hopefully by the end of this week I will be completely, completely over everything. Also, I can say that I am super excited to have a new nephew to meet soon. The temperatures have been absolutely freezing and we’ve been getting all sorts of snow. Despite being in the middle of the coldest weather we have had so far this winter, I found myself out at the Beartooth concert in Royal Oak. What a complete blast. Sleep Theory, Invent Animate, The Plot In You, and Beartooth were incredible and I had so much fun! I don’t really have anything planned for the rest of this month, but I am hoping to be able to get out and do some searching and maybe get some good pictures. I’m going to continue to stay on the grind with everything and hopefully I’ll be able to start sharing with you real soon!

Happy 2024!! Let’s have an amazing year!

-S