The Captain's Log

Day 1: Holy shitballs, I just started a blog.

Actually, I didn't. This baby was born on the first day of lockdown during the wild and crazy time we now look back at as Covid-19, 2020. When I originally started writing The Captain's Log, it was my way of finding sanity in the wild experience of quarantine. I just imagined some random captain, going on an adventure at sea writing about his (well, really her, but the captain I imagined was on some ancient ship back in the day where it was considered bad luck to bring women on ships...) daily experience set adrift on both an adventure and the monotony of seeing the same blue view for an unknown amount of time. So I wrote little blurbs about my day and posted it on Facebook. And while I did that for myself, what I wasn't expecting was how much JOY came from posting those daily posts. The amount of people who posted comments or told me how much they looked forward to reading my daily blurbs about my family and my pets (Pepper the Savage, we see you...) made me realize that it was much bigger than me just posting about my day. In fact, sometime around Day 80 I found out that my dad was actually taking every one of my posts and spending time in his studio drawing a picture to match my entry. Who knows, maybe someday the Captain's Log will be a best selling memoir of just what the whole world went through during a global pandemic...

But for now, we start with Day 1 of "normal" life. Only life looks wayyyyy different around this neck of the woods than it did years ago when I wrote my first Captain's Log entry. Today, I am a mid 40's mom of three, status post separation/divorce from the Hubs (on going...I'm sure that will come up at some point), waiting on a hysterectomy because of crazy heavy periods (I know, TMI), with FOUR cats (divorce = cats) and an old dog. The Oldest Child is currently living her best life at college in Texas, The Middle Child is currently a junior and The Youngest Child has since learned to shower more frequently than he did during Covid and is a freshman in high school. I am at that strange place of reinventing myself because my whole reality was totally turned upside down two years ago when my marriage and therefore my family life imploded. I have a feeling that writing this may be just the thing that I need to figure out who I am all over again...

Weather: Sunny and mild. TP: Do I really need to count TP rolls this time around? But if you're wondering, 33...