48 Hours Notice: A chronicle of my second time having COVID-19, and Christmas 2023.

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Hello, everyone.

I really didn't want to catch this stupid illness AGAIN, but some of us just draw the short end of the stick, I suppose. Despite my illness I will be returning to my place of work in a few days now, this is not a country where if you are sick you stay home...it's just so normalized. It's no wonder we handled the inital outbreak in 2020 so poorly.

  • Ahem
  • Waking up in a haze friday morning, I decided to take a covid test. I had been feeling like utter shit the entire week and was starting to get suspiscious that I had come down with something. I swabbed my nose, added the mucus to the testing fluid, and sure enough...positive. I groaned, snapped a photo and began my own personal Long Vacation. (If I did it right, the music from that album should be playing...)
  • "Hey [boss], guess who just had her christmas ruined!"
  • Attached was an image of me holding up the test. I looked incredibly unkempt. Despite this, I am a big fan of theatrics when it comes to coming down with a terrible illness. After all, it could do away with me at any moment...I can't help writing that last sentence without imagining myself as a late 19th century widower, with the back of my hand lightly placed on my own forehead as a symbol of exhaustion. I have been doing that a lot recently, it helps me track my fever and I feel all dramatic.
  • Oh sorry...Anyways-
  • My boss told me he was sorry to hear it, and that I should rest up. I hope everyone had a nice christmas...

    These past 3 months have been nothing but a nonstop adventure with highs and lows, and I've tried to make life better for literally everyone currently in my life. For once, I am actually succeeding and I feel like I actually AM making life better for people around me. It's amazing. I'm so thankful for the people who love me. I mean it.

    But let's not be all happy and stuff, that kind of overwhelming positivity gets kinda old fast. Let's talk serious stuff.

    3 months ago I was finally able to start taking my transition seriously. I got my name changed on everything, I started going out more and I actually started to feel like I wasn't just a shambling puppet who was dragging herself into the office everyday.

    It's now the end of July, and I'm finishing it off by quitting smoking.

    I may not be able to kick the habit forever, but as long as I can cut back on how much I'm smoking, I'll def feel better.

    In other news...I'm almost at 5 thousand hits on this site. Like, that's awesome! I mean, that's a lot of people to have clicked on my silly little website!.

    Thanks for taking the time to click! I might still suck at HTML but y'know...I feel like i've gotten a hell of a lot better in the what...oh jeez it's already been like, a full year. Wow. Yeah I've definitely gotten better in the time since I had someone design a template for me. Hell, when I started these blog posts were just .txt files. I wasn't even trying to do any thing to aide readability.

    Anyways, Thanks again for reading!

    -Sabrina (Sabrinaprofessionaledition@gmail.com)