The middle school version of myself is screaming inside re-starting up this blog. Does anyone remember xanga?! How we were all coding to make cute blogs, adding music and then myspace happened and then facebook. I feel like I grew up with the internet.. *ahem* dial up anyone?
The last post here wasn’t even up to date, it was a drafted I decided to post it because it had just been sitting there.. I was feeling so un-motivated. Writer’s block I guess. let me re-introduce myself here. My name is Lisa. I’m 29 years old. I live in Seattle, Washington. I’m a medical assistant working in an ob/gyn clinic. I’m a bit rusty at blogging but the only way to start is to actually start. What a better time than at the beginning of a new year. I didn’t make any goals, just wanting to maintain my long term goals. Re-reading my old blogs and reading of simpler times. How much I’ve grown in the last few years and just how much life has happened.
I originally started this blog when I decided to start on taking care of my mental health in 2019 as a way to document.. then life happens like it always does. I started treatment in the spring and not even a month later I was in a car accident that pushed me into a pretty hard depressive episode.. and for 6 months I was looking forward to our trip to Hong Kong and Thailand for 3 weeks.. then covid-19 happened. We made it to the trip but ever since we’ve come back home things have felt surreal. I want to use this blog an outlet, I want others to know that whatever mental battle you’re fighting, you aren’t alone.
2020 was definitely a year of gratitude. A year that made most of our lives come to a pause and have to adapt to changes. Working during a pandemic has been challenging, but I’m grateful that I have a steady job through out all of this. Even with having to be quarantined inside for a bit it’s given me a chance to rediscover my hobbies, I stopped writing because I didn’t have time, I was so busy trying to make a life. I needed to stop being in survival mode *I’m planning to talk more about this in a later blog.* I’m excited to see where this goes, please be kind.
~*`*_ Lisa _*`*~
