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I know I've been gone for a year or so. Gone completely for a year or so, and only sporadically here before that. There will be no recap of everything that's happened because frankly, a lot of it was pandemic trauma swamped and a lot of it was drowned in either grief or stress or a whole bunch of other things. I marked that it's been a year because I thought, when was the last time I posted? I remember a bunch of condolences when Chelsea died. Oh, I guess it must have been last late July/early August. Well, that's a hell of a way to mark time. Anyway, the point being, I guess over time you will learn about things that have happened. And lately I've been finding myself more in need of setting down a time to ramble into a journal, so hi Dreamwidth! I'm back. I will certainly not be catching up on anything on Dreamwidth and I do not expect anyone to try and catch up with me all at once. Let's do it slowly, over time.

I meant to not go on about how tired I am, but my sleep schedule has been just barely adequate so yes, I am tired. I should probably work a short nap in here somewhere but so far this morning I have done some short gardening while it was cool out, five languages in Duolingo, fed and medicated cats, fed and medicated myself (including with something healthy like an apple and some milk and not just cookie dough made for eating), emptied the new bag of bird food into the bin and then took the bag of trash out, and did it all at a slow pace that would not feel overwhelming. Except for the being tired. I also did take some time to just listen to the birds. That was nice. 

( So much rambling, so little inclination to inflict it on others. Yet here I am. )