Welp, this is certainly something huh? Last time I did this was 3 years ago when we had a big ol' Pandemic that happened...quite something am I right?

Anyway, I am just putting this here because I figured as I barely upload any commissions I get, I will just put a little mental musing to show I am still around.

So, what happened to me over the last 3 years since we had COVID-19 running amok across the entire world? Welp, I am gonna give a short overview of my life from 2020-2023.

2020: Coming off the back of a horrendous end to 2019 (got fired from my job because I got sick and missed 3 weeks of work, couldn't appeal as I was a temp), 2020 started pretty steady, surprisingly couldn't find work for a little bit and COVID numbers were getting hella-scary, then lockdown happened etc. etc.
This is where, rather unexpectedly, I found work in the form of working on behalf of the NHS on the COVID-19 Test & Trace program...which was actually very neat as I was working from home and calling people to stay at home...you get the picture.
I was supposed to be moving to the US in 2020, but that shit backfired for obvious reasons.

2021: Very strange year but probably the most eventful (before 2022 of course), not much was really happening in the early stages of 2021, apart from the fact I moved to Stockton-on-Tees with a roommate in January, in heavy snow...with a car I bought with my brother driving it. XD
Fast forward a little bit, things were looking up, still working from home and doing Test & Trace on behalf of NHS...this is where it got tricky because I was supposed to start driving lessons in the UK and get my ass on the road, but that backfired too as my car failed my MOT big time...so now I have car that had to be forced off the road for the foreseeable future which sucks.
With some help from my roommate, I ended up purchasing a moped, a really sweet little Honda who I dubbed Gem, back in July 2021...I owned her for 5 weeks...then one fateful day, I parked her up at McDonald's to get myself lunch while doing Deliveroo jobs to earn extra cash...she gets stolen right under my fucking nose.
I was beside myself..I lost her along with my gloves and even the key to my off-the-road car;
3 days later, I get sent messages on Facebook from someone I didn't know, they tell me that they've seen my moped and they've seen videos of it being ridden by 3 or 4 youths...which was sent to me and it was ON TIKTOK OF ALL PLACES.
I still have those videos, I ain't deleting them.
Pressing swiftly on, I see the videos and then I see the last one...yep, confirmed, the thieving little scumbags torched her...fucking disgusting.

Once that was done, that set me back a huge amount, so I had to pick myself up and go again...so I did...but I was struggling to find work after leaving the T&T program due to the changes in the work systems causing rifts everywhere, so I backed out of it.
Roll on late 2021. This is the part where I finally got to see my brother get married to his long-term girlfriend of approximately 20 years (They were together in Secondary School) in Italy of all places...it was absolutely amazing and unforgettable.
After many issues with job hunting and that I had no major income, I decided to move back to Essex to live with my Mum at least temporarily until I get my life back on track.
It felt good to end 2021 on a high instead of a low that happened throughout the year...and oh yeah, my car got broken into while I was on holiday too...thankfully nothing was stolen cause there was fuck all in there to begin with lmao.
All-in-all 2021 was pretty crazy and very erratic. Now for 2022.

2022: January...what a crazy month...I told a few friends what I was going through and a very lovely person (who I will not name) stepped forward and donated a big sum of money to me...cause of all the shit I had been through...I didn't know what to say...It helped me pay off a lot of my lingering debts and...I bought my plane ticket to the US...right there and then...December 1st 2022 I was finally doing it, my move to the USA was on...

All throughout 2022 was the buildup to me moving, holy frick I couldn't believe it was happening, neither could my boyfriend Laeos...when I broke news to him, he told me he damn near screamed so loud that his roommates thought he was being murdered o.o

I was working for a go-kart place up until I moved...and wow...I can't believe it...but on December 1st at around 11:50pm EST, I landed at Huntington Tri-State Airport...where I finally saw Lae and his best friend Corey who drove him to us at around 12:20am...I honestly couldn't believe it... 13 years in the making...

And here I am today, working for Sheetz as an American citizen...but born a Brit. ^^