State of the James 2022
Jan. 19th, 2022 08:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jamesqIt’s been a long year, and what was once a chore remains so, but it does feel different. Like, I’ve grown used to parts of it, and bury other parts of it to avoid dwelling on them. Is that healthy? Who knows.
A year ago, there was only the telltale hint of a vaccine for COVID. Today, I’ve had three shots of it, and it looks like I’ll be getting another shot every six months, basically forever. I’m OK with this. The current version, Omicron, is ridiculously infectious, so we’re back to isolating. Or at least, some of us, some of the time. Maybe I’ve already caught Omicron? I had the sniffles last week. If that’s the case, I got off damned lucky.
We’re got another year of this at least. New variants are still spawning, and I’m sure there will be other waves. And those of us who are vaccinated should weather them OK.
COVID isolation is mostly bad - I miss spending time with my friends. I miss travelling. Hell, I miss just going to movies and restaurants. I don’t miss going physically to work though, and if I had my druthers, I’d spend minimal time in the office. Maybe two days a week? $DayJob hates this though, and I’m confident that if it weren’t for the work-from-home-if-you-can order, we’d be back in the office five days a week.
Being back at work would probably arrest my weight gain. I’m already ten pounds over the oh-my-god-never-go-past-this-again weight. My efforts to curb my snacking have failed. I’m kind of resigned to that. It helps that I’m 54 now - I think we can all agree that me ever having a romantic partner is basically nil, and that was about 1/3 of why I wanted to lose weight in the first place. The other 2/3 being don’t die like dad, and it’s just nice to be able to move.
I am doing the Conquerer Challenge again this year, and one of them I’ve decided is going to be directly tied to food tracking. Namely, any day I get 20 wellness wins in WW, I’ll count that as one kilometre of distance on the Ring of Kerry. So far this year: 2 Km. Woo hoo.
The roommate situation is vastly improved. I wrote about this extensively already, so no need to rehash it here except to say:
B2VDSS was uneventful last year, and promises to be so this year as well. And I think I’m put my finger on why. It’s COVID again. Or rather, because no one is socializing, I’m not being triggered by the lack of it. It’s easier to take not being invited to anything if nobody is being invited to anything. Weird, but I’ll take it.
I went on vacation to Vancouver twice last year. Once was a summer road trip and once was a plane ride out for my birthday. Both were a lot of fun, and I managed to see friends, watch movies, eat at restaurants, etc. Hell, just going for a walk someplace with novelty was nice. I even managed, with some educated guesses drop them both near the valleys on the graph of COVID cases. I’d be planning the next trip if I had a hope of figuring out when the next one is.
In summary, physically, mentally, and emotionally I’m doing… ok. Not great, not terrible, just… ok. Under the circumstances I’ll take it. But man, I can think of a zillion ways things would be better.
A year ago, there was only the telltale hint of a vaccine for COVID. Today, I’ve had three shots of it, and it looks like I’ll be getting another shot every six months, basically forever. I’m OK with this. The current version, Omicron, is ridiculously infectious, so we’re back to isolating. Or at least, some of us, some of the time. Maybe I’ve already caught Omicron? I had the sniffles last week. If that’s the case, I got off damned lucky.
We’re got another year of this at least. New variants are still spawning, and I’m sure there will be other waves. And those of us who are vaccinated should weather them OK.
COVID isolation is mostly bad - I miss spending time with my friends. I miss travelling. Hell, I miss just going to movies and restaurants. I don’t miss going physically to work though, and if I had my druthers, I’d spend minimal time in the office. Maybe two days a week? $DayJob hates this though, and I’m confident that if it weren’t for the work-from-home-if-you-can order, we’d be back in the office five days a week.
Being back at work would probably arrest my weight gain. I’m already ten pounds over the oh-my-god-never-go-past-this-again weight. My efforts to curb my snacking have failed. I’m kind of resigned to that. It helps that I’m 54 now - I think we can all agree that me ever having a romantic partner is basically nil, and that was about 1/3 of why I wanted to lose weight in the first place. The other 2/3 being don’t die like dad, and it’s just nice to be able to move.
I am doing the Conquerer Challenge again this year, and one of them I’ve decided is going to be directly tied to food tracking. Namely, any day I get 20 wellness wins in WW, I’ll count that as one kilometre of distance on the Ring of Kerry. So far this year: 2 Km. Woo hoo.
The roommate situation is vastly improved. I wrote about this extensively already, so no need to rehash it here except to say:
- As predicted, I’ve had no contact with the old tenant.
- The new tenant is much easier to live with.
B2VDSS was uneventful last year, and promises to be so this year as well. And I think I’m put my finger on why. It’s COVID again. Or rather, because no one is socializing, I’m not being triggered by the lack of it. It’s easier to take not being invited to anything if nobody is being invited to anything. Weird, but I’ll take it.
I went on vacation to Vancouver twice last year. Once was a summer road trip and once was a plane ride out for my birthday. Both were a lot of fun, and I managed to see friends, watch movies, eat at restaurants, etc. Hell, just going for a walk someplace with novelty was nice. I even managed, with some educated guesses drop them both near the valleys on the graph of COVID cases. I’d be planning the next trip if I had a hope of figuring out when the next one is.
In summary, physically, mentally, and emotionally I’m doing… ok. Not great, not terrible, just… ok. Under the circumstances I’ll take it. But man, I can think of a zillion ways things would be better.
