Thoughts on the Coronavirus

– Journal entry during quarantine –

COVID entry

Covid,

I followed by your rules for more than a year and the second I let my guard down, you chose to strike. I don’t blame myself but I am having a hard time with it all.

I did what I thought was right and what health leaders told me to do. I wore my mask when I felt appropriate, I got my vaccines, I did everything I could to prevent this. I did too many to count news stories on COVID and its impact and even in practicing what I preached, I fell victim to thinking this was somewhat over. Where do we even go from here? Nearly two years too long.

You took away time with my family, time in my hometown, and the holiday. As I try to wrap my head around it all and its unfairness, I get angry. I’m sick of this.

When is enough for you, covid? At a certain point, we can’t all just freeze our lives. We have to move on and move forward.

Even as I sit here trying to gather my thoughts and wrap my mind around this all, I feel like I have no place to talk (or write). Hundreds of thousands of lives lost, impacted, and then so many frontline workers, giving their lives – I can’t imagine.

Honestly, it’s not until having the virus that I feel like I can really see and feel the severity of it. The aching head pain, body aches that I’ve never experienced and a temperature that felt debilitating, all of this, and I’m considered a lucky one.

This is a message to say I’m with you all impacted. I’m confused, I’m angry and wondering when enough is enough.

I want to move on after my 10 days of quarantine, but I can’t help going into 2022 with fear, concern, and doubt.

If there’s anything we can all relate on, it’s that we’re all trying to navigate this. One day, we will be able to say we beat this.

I don’t have the answers, I don’t know what to do anymore, but I pray a better year is ahead.  Remember to be kind through this.

Easter, spring outfit 2021

Happy Easter!

First Easter in Alabama for me. I went to mass in Downtown, Huntsville and then went for Sunday brunch. A laid back and relaxing Easter. I loved every second of it, but it’s weird to have my first holiday away from family.

I wore a colorful springy maxi dress that I got YEARS ago. I think it just never felt like a dress I’d wear in New Jersey, but now living down south, I feel like it’s totally a southern Easter dress. Right?! I’m happy I wore it, especially in the gorgeous warm weather! Perfect dress for the occasion.

Outfit details on my LIKEtoKNOW.IT

spring maxi dress

spring maxi dress

spring maxi dress