Blogging is something I have done on and off for almost ten years now. I say on and off because I created this particular blog about two years ago. After being committed to blogging on this website for a good part of a year I knocked it on the head simply because I wasn't getting out of it what I wanted.
Believing it was just the 'platform' that I seemed to not get on with anymore, I switched to Wordpress for the second time. However, based on the fact I did notwant a self-hosted blog, purely because last time I explored that option it became very expensive and in the end I still did not get a website/blog that I could say I was proud of. Also, I had got to the point where I had put far too much time and effort into writing about stuff that I thought I should have been writing about because of what other bloggers were doing, and writing about to get notice, that I seemed to lose my way a bit.
In short, I had stopped writing for myself.
So why you ask have I suddenly decided to start blogging again now. Honestly, I wanted to try it again because...we're still in lockdown (for now) due to Covid 19, and I was a bit bored and fancied doing something different for a change. Simple as.So, like a lot of people I have been on lockdown, which is fine, however truth be told, I've had enough now and if safety measures are correctly implemented at my place of work I would be quite happy to go back there, and get retail in my home town of Lincoln back to normal. Safety of course is the number one priority here, but the sooner the country's economy can once again lift itself off the ground, the better I say.My anxiety levels have not been particularly that great either. I can imagine a lot of people out there are also feeling the same way right now too. And another big change in my life since I last blogged is I now have a boyfriend. I have finally, after being single for roughly 13 years since my last relationship (that's a long time I know) I found on New Years Day, the perfect gentleman in Lee. He is so lovely, and I love him very much. I haven't seen him much, not physically anyway in the last couple of months because of lockdown. I have only seen him from afar. We stood talking in the Tescos car park for about 20 minutes yesterday. As you do!We also FaceTime every night. So it's a good thing technology has moved on, which of course is another big change I have seen since the last time I blogged.
For the majority of lockdown I have been painting mostly. In the garden. When the weather has been suitable obviously. So far I have painted the shed, the fence, our wooden double chair that we have, and some storage shelving, where mum keeps all the gardening stuff, and I have stained the decking, where we have a really nice new seating area. I have really enjoyed doing that. I have also been doing a lot of colouring. I find that during these really weird times, it's good to find something that will take your mind of things so you become less anxious and just relax a bit. People have their own ways of dealing with stress, I have found that so far colouring has been working pretty well for me. I've also been watching, or re-watching I should say, a fair few of the Marvel movies. You seriously cannot beat a good Superhero movie to boost happiness in my opinion. They definitely provide the 'feelgood' factor.
The Marvel movies are something I could just re-watch over and over again because I really do love them. Stan Lee really did leave some really big shoes to be filled, whoever tries to take over from him. No one will ever be able to match Stan Lee in greatness in my opinion.Let's just all hope lockdown can be eased soon too. And as much as I have really enjoyed having some time off work, I am ready to go back now and get back into everything. I can't believe it but, by the time I go back I have a feeling we shall all be on a countdown to bloody Christmas. Cest la vie.Take CareSarah
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