I think I won't be able to quantify how daily access to this view and all this light is going to help me manage my stress level. I've been living and working like a mole person for ten years, so it's going to be a massively positive change.

Oh my god, babe, I’m so sorry. That’s an awful situation. Do you still have my email address from last year when we were first told we would be losing the Kinja platform? If you need to vent, please write to me. I have plenty of time to write back in the mornings, and if you wrote to me, I would make sure to respond…

I'll do my best, goddess.

Indeed. How have you been?

I’m realizing now that I was not clear before: the meditation and yoga spaces will be separate. My plan is to turn the second bedroom into what I am calling a focus room, a combo office/meditation space. I’ll be doing yoga by the balcony to take advantage of the available natural light.

O/T, but I moved today and talked a bit about it in SNS.

How did you know I still had one bottle of ginger beer left? 🤔

Thank you so much!

It is, isn't it? I feel quite lucky. This is just what I need and right when I need it most.

Yep and yep.

Due to the pandemic, I will be picking up ten hours of overtime a week starting Monday. The hospital has also gone from a COVID unit to a COVID floor to two floors, effective yesterday.

This. Even the patients I interview in the ED do this sometimes, and I have to keep telling them to pull their masks up.

It’s a little different than what’s shown, but there is no floor plan available for the one I am getting. It’s all the same except instead of a walk-in closet, which is only available in a corner suite, and I will be in the middle of the building, there will be two side-by-side closets in the master. Otherwise, it’s…

Thank you.

Thank you. I think it will be a great refuge from the realities of an ED so busy and a hospital so short of beds that we now have protocols for boarding patients overnight in the ED while they (and we) wait for beds to open up. The natural light alone will be a huge difference and a most welcome change. The lake view…

Probably not for a while, not until it’s all done. 🙂

I signed a lease on my new apartment two weeks ago and got some furniture for it today. I move in a week. Things are starting to come together. The vision I had of the life I wanted is getting nudged into reality more with each passing day.

I mean, you can't get sick if you are already undead.

There are so many beautiful songs on this album, songs that hit me in unexplored places in my memories this summer. I think I listened to it for more than two weeks straight at every free moment. “Epiphany” hits the hardest, especially now that I work in a hospital ED surrounded by COVID patients.

Just under half the beds in my ED had COVID patients in them, and there was a COVID patient in the hall, too. That was just during my eight-hour shift today.