random thoughts – Day 1,820 – (Tuesday) - mixed bag

The time change of the weekend provides for more daylight after work, but the mornings are dark and rough all over again, at least for a while. Ugh. The alarm goes off and I want to toss the phone across the room.

Today's success story.

Part of the usual morning routine includes playing Wordle while waking up with a cup (or two or ten) of coffee. This morning, I got the answer in two guesses for the second day in a row. I have no idea how this happened. There must be something magical happening on this date, because on March 11, 2022, I also got the answer in two guesses. Facebook memories are fun for delightful little tidbits like that. 

Other Facebook post memories are less delightful. Memories from this date five years ago were of two events I was planning to attend being cancelled due to the advancement of COVID-19. And we all got to see how that played out. That's when I learned that the years of antisocial, hermit tendencies were the perfect training for a pandemic lockdown, so it wasn't completely bad.

Scrap piece art cards.

In 2012, the post was about happy fun times at an art party. The hosts had art and craft stations set up around the house and adults and kids had a chance to get creative. At the greeting card table, I chose to use the scraps left from other people’s cards for mine. 

After the art party, I joked that making cards could be my retirement plan, but that might actually have to become the reality. I’ve got lots of art supplies. And wine. Maybe I need to have people over for an art party. We could certainly use the diversion.

Back in 2011, the day's post was “earthquake. tsunami. upcoming “super moon” predicted to affect the world. yikes.” I had to look that up today, because I don’t  remember that event. It was an undersea megathrust earthquake in the Pacific Ocean that caused a tsunami and killed nearly 20,000 people. Holy hell. 

In America today, it's feeling like a tsunami of financial destruction. Millions of us are being screwed over by the stock market reactions to the events taking place at The White House, the chain-saw approach to government job slashing, and all the other stuff I'm trying really hard to not dwell on.