1467 Sophie’s November Life Update, The Good and The Bad.

It is going to be a little different today, I want to have a little rant, a bit of a chat and just encourage you lovely humans out there to share the love. Hundreds, thousands and even millions or billions of people are struggling with their life right now. All for different reasons but a lot of those reasons will be down to Rona. If you are reading today and you have lost anyone, family, friends, cousins, sisters, mothers, brothers, fathers, aunties, uncles, grandparents, great-grandparents, neighbours, and anyone else you can think of please knows, my heart goes out to you. I am thinking of you, and I hope that together we can push through this horrible situation we find ourselves in. My fingers, toes, leg, arms, and legs are all crossed for anyone who is struggling with it right now and in the future.

How is everyone finding the new UK lockdown? I’ll be honest, the lockdown hasn’t bothered me much, so I am fortunate in that way, but I know most people have found it hard to deal with. I tried to enjoy it as I knew there was little chance of me ever getting this much free time off ever again (other than annual leave).

Annoyingly, I tend to get ill even without leaving the house, I know, it is a skill. That means during both UK lockdowns I have been ill for some of it. During the first lockdown, I had to be given antibiotics and on the second lockdown, I ended up in urgent care and needed steroids. Besides the times I have been ill I have been trying to keep myself busy.

Like a lot of others, I decided very early on in the first UK lockdown to gather all my beauty products and go through them. Chuck anything old, donate anything I didn’t want, offer bits to friends and family and I went all nerdy and listed all my products. I kept buying things not knowing I had others of the same sort, for example, I would go to the supermarket and buy a new facewash forgetting that I have two in the box under my bed. With the list, it makes it harder to forget what I have got and what I don’t need to buy.

I did have and still have a ridiculous number of things. It is going down which is a move in the right direction, but I still have 3 big boxes full, 2 medium boxes and two small boxes. I told ya there was a lot, but don’t worry if my plan works out nothing is going to be wasted! I have given friends and family stuff (socially distanced), I have donated items, and there have been a few bits put in the bin/recycled but only out-of-date items.

I also redecorated my room; it was in serious need of a bit of TLC. There were 3 or 4 different shades of cream on the walls, chip wallpaper hanging off the wall, holes where things had been hung up, cracks, and gaps in the flooring haha. I started that in April, and I finished in November, it took a while!

I did lose my job in September which was very sudden, and very strange and there was no real reason. I do think I was just an easy option to get rid of as I was new and not through my probation. I did kind of expect it but a little more warning would have been a decent gesture with what is going on in the world, but it showed the true colours of the people who work for the company.

I have kept in touch with a few of the people I met there which was nice. I’ve heard that my going was a bit of a shock for people, me too. Like I have said before, people are very quick to pull the rug from beneath your feet if it saves them. Never mind, there isn’t any point in dwelling on the past.

I did get some great news today. I have managed to land myself a job. It is not perfect, as it is part-time and only temporary, but it is a job, and it is money coming in so a good start. I am hoping to make it up with overtime. The good thing is, that it is local, and the people I have met have been super lovely. You never know, I might enjoy it and do well and they might keep me on after the contract has ended.

With the new job I will be working until 10 pm some days so please give me a couple of weeks to adjust. I am hoping to keep the main post going live on a Monday, but we will see how it goes. Hopefully, I get myself organised enough. Okay, so you know all about my year. What about yours, what have you been up to? Have you lost your job? Have you been furloughed? Are you a keyworker and worked through the pandemic from day 1? Tell me all about it in the comments.

I would like to send my condolences to anyone and everyone who has been impacted by this year’s new brand of madness. If you are someone who has suffered Rona, if you have lost someone to Rona, if you have lost multiple people to Rona, if you have lost your job, your social meetings, opportunities, schooling, maybe you have lost your business. I am sorry, and I hope we can make it through the next wrong turn in our journeys and learn how to navigate the new ‘normal’. Don’t lose hope, we can make it if we work together and support each other.