It’s beyond obvious right now that the world is a madhouse. We are all trying to cope with the Covid virus in the best way we know. We are also trying to adjust to how much life, and the world, has changed so quickly.  

I always read the daily news, but now it seems like I am reading it hourly,  and every important breaking news notification comes to my iPhone. 

I didn’t mention Covid in my previous post as I didn’t want to go down a rabbit hole saying the same thing that every podcast, news article, email, etc., were already stating. I don’t want to give advice on how we can all get through this thing, or give you tips and trick on how to make your own house cleaner, that’s just not me (okay, please just use a vinegar and water mix rather than bleach, it works, trust me). 

In fact, this whole thing has been sending me on a crazy emotional rollercoaster. During this time of isolation, or social distancing, especially for those of us that are working from home, or sadly have been laid off from their jobs, many of us now have time to do the things we never had time for before. Many people now have time to read the books they have had sitting on their shelves, or do those crafts we’ve wanted to do for years. And yes, the coincidence is that I started this blog at this time. Although, I will admit truthfully that I had been planning this for over a year, but this gave me the kick in the butt I needed. I am sorry that you are currently getting so many requests to follow your many friends on their new blog journeys. But, do it anyway, we all need to have listeners to the crap we have wanted to spew to the world. 

For me, the issues I am still suffering from during my post-accident recovery is that I never know day to day, and sometimes hour to hour, how my energy levels will be, or worse, if I will have my brain “kick in” at all to think of things to say, or type. I’m very fortunate to be one of those that still have my job, so I am working from home, attempting to seem productive, while finding that I prefer to play with my new chocolate lab puppy (Freyja), or play some dumb time-sucking dragon-merging game on my iPad! 

Have you ever had something you enjoy doing, yet you find yourself procrastinating, and have no idea why? It becomes a horrible cycle and we beat ourselves up as it continues. Well, that’s been me. And then my daily energy/brain state, on top of everything else, has made my life insanely erratic, or in truth, manic. It hasn’t been fun for me, or for the people around me, as I am sure many of you are experiencing the same thing.

I found myself telling someone the other day that I have the motivation of a slug. But then, I realized that the statement was truly an insult to slugs. I mean, they need major motivation just to move a tiny distance. I would just give up, but those darn slugs fight every day to keep moving, and slime-ing along. So really, maybe they should be my motivational animal, to fight every day to be motivated like the slug! Screw that motivational “hang in there” cat poster. It should be a slug with the statement to fight hard every day to keep moving forward! Or, to take a pseudo-reference from a certain animated fish movie, our mantras should be “Just keep squishing, just keep squishing…”.

Wow, okay, um not where I planned to go with this for this blog. But, if you choose to stay with me on journey, I do have a list of fun items to chat about. Like the crazy four days I spent on a small boat in a remote part of Indonesia as this virus was taking over the world. See… that’s your motivation to keep connecting with this drunken raccoon, with a slug for a motivational animal!? 

TV/Movies:  So, for the other part I like to mention, I have been binge-watching various shows, with my lack of motivation, to sit at my drum kit (that story will definitely be in a blog post soon), or of course to write the next blog! So my recommendations are to watch Schitts Creek (it has amazing Canadian actors, and it takes until the 3rd episode to grip you). I also just finished season 7 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine in two evenings, so funny! Oh, and I’m still not convinced it deserves the hype it’s gotten, but I watched the latest season of “Stranger Things," simply because it’s such a unique show compared to the boring formulaic shows out there. I would love to be a TV and movie critic, but this is not the place, so I’m only giving my basic views.

Reading: I just picked up the multi-award winning book “Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow (yes, I love to support my Canadian content). 

Podcasts: I am still addicted to “Risk”, and am a proud monthly Patreon member. I highly recommend you check it out as long as you are open to rather adult content. My goal is to submit at least three potential stories to them. Sadly, my goal was to do this by January 2020, which I have not done, but … I won’t give up, I will embrace my inner slug and persevere. 

I have recently been introduced to the podcast, and now TV show, “Lore” which is fantastic! The TV series is very good, but I wish they brought back the main podcast speaker for the commentary, which was dropped on the second season, as I love learning the extra details.

Music: Hmmmm, I can’t stop listening to Eddie Spaghetti, who is the singer for the SuperSuckers, on his solo albums . He has an old-school country vibe, with a slight rock-n-roll feel, singing about prison, booze, drugs, and women. Yet, somehow to me he seems light-hearted and gives me an up-beat sing-a-long vibe. Last time I saw him, I said that his solo albums were my “go-to’s” as my happy sunshine music when I am riding my motorcycle. He seemed confused, but thankful?!

On an interesting note, one thing I never imagined with this blog, is making a doodle with a “to-do” note for the next day that says, “paint a slug drawing”??!! Yes, I know I could have easily uploaded a free clip-art image on the computer, but of course I had to make things more complex, and found myself late one night painting a slug for hours trying to perfect the slug slime!

P.S.: I really need to learn how to doodle simple things to upload, as I spent hours enjoying the meditation of painting a slug, but then trying to scan it became a disaster in seeing every flaw in the paper and my paint, etc., such a long waste of time. I will need to find people to chat with about better methods for things like this! I know blogs are better with pics so please be patient with me!