So, when COVID first came around back in 2020 I had already slowed down with blogging a lot- I kind of went big with the whole Myrtle Beach trip & the gift guide running together back at the end of 2017 and I was BURNT THE HECK OUT + you know it was winter and with my seasonal depression I was like whatever, I’ll pick things back up in the spring- and I never did! The biggest thing was David had gotten me an kindle fire tablet and kindle unlimited and I went hard core into reading and never really looked back. I mean yeah, I blogged some here and there but it wasn’t such a big thing- reading was better , less dramatic and I just fully went down a rabbit hole there.
I did try a couple times for review things around gift guide time, but I never really got anywhere so I kind of just gave up. I think up to a certain point I was still posting semi regularly and then when I had my chemical eye burn (theres a fun story to look forward to!in may 2019 I kind of got worse with blogging, because that was when everything in the world started happening. Then My parents had the wreck and that kind of killed the rest of anything I had going on – because even though they walked away from a roll over wreck on the interstate it was SO much to process and deal with for me on so many levels.
I think that my mom and I still couponed up till maybe the end of that year, but my mom had really changed there and not in a good way personality wise after the wreck, so I had gotten to the point there for a while that I didn’t want to go out with her (I know that sounds so bad, but she went through this extreme extreme mood shift there for a while, and thankfully she snapped back at some point! Also, I pretty much had to work her deals or she copied mine for a while because her mind just wouldn’t work that way- which was fine but what sucked is if something went “wrong” she couldn’t help me figure out things on the fly like she used to so it was – i don’t know the right word –
Then COVID came – and I tried to get reviews and would get approved for them and then they would take it back and say it was because of COVID. Also, my mom and I were not going out AT ALL anymore even though her mood had improved and her memory and all that (that wreck, again was hard as heck to process for me and I wasn’t even in the damn thing. I can not fathom what her and my dad went through for sure) Without really ever leaving the house except maybe every couple weeks to go to like Publix or Aldi, I was never out of the house so no couponing posts – no I went out with my mom and got this at the thrift shop posts, couldn’t get anything to review, etc I just gave up eventually! I figured that it would get back to some sort of normal eventually, and maybe I could make a come back.
Which- me making these sorts of posts – I have lots of things in my head in general and all the stuff from 3 years worth of crazy at this point so- no worries there- but as far as reviewing? I have NO idea if I will ever get anything again. I am approved for something right now, but I haven’t confirmed because I am worried I’ll get it and perhaps feel overwhelmed? I don’t know- but I will probably do it anyways 🙂 i’m sure it will work out and I am so happy to get something honestly- and its something I have been wanting a while too so…:)
More later- got to go grab some coffee!
