Hello everyone! I would first like to apologize for my absence, I was having a little “blogger’s block”, but what better way to alleviate that block than a national holiday like Thanksgiving!
It’s a holiday like this that prones me to reflect on all the crazy things that have happened to me this past year. I graduated with a BA in Psychology, I ventured to my first comic-con since 2020, and I decided to make a twitter account (which has been pretty entertaining so far)! I also have a lot to be thankful for, like my family. I know I don’t normally talk about my family affairs on any of my social medias, but I just want to dedicate this small blog post to thanking my family for having my back during school and through this pandemic. Even these last few days were a little nerve racking because my dad was feeling sick, and I’m talking like “staying home from work and sleeping in a different room” kind of sick. Thankfully he tested negative for both Covid and the flu, and he started feeling a lot better today. No more body aches, fevers, or drowsiness from him.
My mom was so relieved, and it made me think for a moment. 2020 has made us look at sickness very differently now. My dad had a simple cold and some of us were already thinking the worst, and it reminded me of a little situation I went through a few months ago. You see I was hanging out with my friend at the mall with a neat store that sold a bunch of manga, and I noticed that my friend’s nose was a little stuffy and he was coughing/sneezing a lot. I asked him if he was feeling alright and he told me it was just his allergies bothering him. Two days later I started feeling sick with the same symptoms my friend had, and my folks freaked out and made me get a Covid test. I got the rapid test, which was negative, but my mom made me quarantine until I scheduled an appointment to take a PCR test. I was three days into my quarantine when I went to take my PCR test, with my results coming back negative the next day, which proved that I was just going through a summer cold, but nonetheless my mom made quarantine for the rest of the week.
I was bored out of my mind during that quarantine, but I knew it was necessary to maintain the mental well-being of the house. Mental well-being is very important, especially now since society is slowly trying to return to a sense of normalcy. Let’s all just take a moment today to acknowledge the good our family does for each other, even if some of the things they do may be a little over the top, we do it because we love each other!
I’m also thankful for you: my followers on Instagram and my readers on this blog. You people are the best, and thank you all for supporting little ol’ me, and I couldn’t be happier with the fanbase I’ve gathered here!
Hope everyone enjoys their Thanksgiving, and to the Puritins on Twitter who are making people bad for celebrating this holidiay, I get what you’re trying to do, but don’t be a fucking asshole about it. Now I’m off to watch the new Hawkeye show on Disney+, and I’ll be back with my review on the first two episodes.
This is your friendly neighborhood cosplayer, signing off!
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