Hey guys! Welcome back to Yule Blog! My therapist is sick today so I'll have to just talk to you guys lol. We are getting closer to Christmas! Do you feel the magic in the air? Sometimes I do, but I really have to work for it. I'm really having a hard time with the fact that I most likely won't be seeing my family for Christmas. And probably not until we all get vaccinated. I know most people are still choosing to see their families but I just can't imagine how it's worth risking it. If Eddie and I were to get Covid and get hospitalized, we would not only lose all of our savings but would probably have to sell our house. and with everything else being so up in the air, I just can't imagine taking the risk. My cost for being hospitalized for 1 day, with fluids and an ECG was over $800 and that's with health insurance that we pay $750 a month for. If I catch this damn thing and have to go to the hospital for oxygen or anything like that, I don't want to look back and wish I would have just waited. I just keep trying to remind myself of these facts so that I remember why I'm putting myself through this torture. The truth is, we don't know if Eddie and I have it. and we still don't know if people who just had it can or can't spread it. and we also aren't 100% sure that those who have had it won't catch it again. It seems even the vaccine isn't a for sure yet either but one things is for sure: after I get the vaccine and finish the second dose, I am running to my families homes and staying there for a solid week...lol if they'll have me!
If you are like me and are sacrificing your need to see your family and your desperate need to socialize. You aren't the only one. I personally, don't know of anyone else besides maybe one or two people who are making the same sacrifices. Just know that you aren't alone or crazy or stupid. Sometimes I still have to talk myself out of that one. I don't want anyone to think I'm abandoning them. I'm sure mostly people understand though.
I shipped out some Christmas gifts today. I shouldn't have waited so long! Ooops! I've been shipping out Christmas gifts since I moved to California in 2009. It's gotten way too expensive. I have dramatically cut down on who I buy gifts for. I used to buy a couple things for every single person in my family and even friends and it was so fun! I miss doing it! but when you don't even get replies back or thank you's from most of them...ehhh it get's a little old. I started making donations in people's names but even then sometimes people don't respond. I did get a few gifts for some family members this year that I really truly love and care about and a few items for people that were very inexpensive but now I'm thinking even that isn't worth it as I just shipped off 4 very small and light packages, all within the United States and it costs $40! I didn't even choose rapid shipping or anything! Yikes!
but either way, giving and receiving gifts is one of my favorite things about Christmas! I've been saving up to buy Christmas presents every year since I was in 2nd grade. I would save up money from chores and jobs and it was tradition that my Grandpa would match the money that I saved and then he and/or my Mom would take me shopping. I always bought my friends gifts in school as well. I remember in high school making gifts and buying my friends incense, candles, lip gloss and picture frames from the dollar store. In fact, I still think the dollar store is a great place to get little stocking stuffers and other fun things that maybe no one would buy for themselves but are fun to have anyhow. I used to make my own poetry books and give them as gifts as well. I always day dreamed about being a writer when I grew up, and now look here I am writing to you for a meager living but even so! I'm a "writer"!
Do you like to make gifts for Christmas? What are you doing with your family this year? Please know that if you choose to see your family that I am obviously not against that at all! In fact, I'm very happy for you and maybe even a little jealous! I wish I had the balls to pull the trigger! I want to live vicariously through you. Are your plans to get tested first? or maybe you've all had it and feel the risk is too narrow to care? Either way, tell me about it! I love hearing about what other families get to do. Especially now that I am mostly working from home and don't get to talk to people about anything.
To be honest though, I felt like I never had time to chit chat with anyone while I was working outside of the house at my last job. Maybe every once in a while we would have time to talk but mostly I worked by myself or we weren't allowed to have small talk with each other because we we're supposed to be doing other things quietly while concentrating on our work. Or maybe that rule was just for me! Gotta keep the girl with ADHD in line! There were many times I had to work alone in the basement while everyone else got to work upstairs and that made me feel kinda depressed. but then you have crowds of people upstairs not wearing their masks correctly or distanced so either way, I'm kinda glad to be done! I'm much happier on the path I am now on. There are many opportunities in the works and but for now I am doing mortuary transport jobs for the county with my husband and the pay is fantastic. Not to mention it's a public service I can do that helps our community and I can use my compassion. I don't get grossed out and creeped out like most people. To me, death is just a part of life.
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