Well.. It has been four years. It took me a bit into the year to finish this entry. 2020 was, as you know, a new time. It will be a year I do not soon forget. I found myself in Mexico when the first cases were reported in the US and by the time I got home, it was spreading. The first six months went well. Celeste and I had been having some issues in 2019 but we seemed to be doing the opposite of most couples as the pandemic began, we were thriving. Our life was getting better. As you know, we were polyamorous and that worked well for us until it didn’t. Celeste had been dating a couple since 2018 and the male had been slowly chipping away at her to come live with them. There is a ton to the story and perhaps someday, across a table in some dimly lit bar I’ll get to tell you about it. Suffice to say, I came home from a work trip one Friday and she was gone. She went so far as to keep the ruse going up until minutes before I pulled up to find my home in shambles. I spent this last part of 2020 in a depressive state, one I had not known since our parting. I had a girlfriend of a year as well and we split, mostly due to my mental state, a month after Celeste left.
It isn’t all sad though. I pretty quickly realized what you knew all along I’m sure, Celeste and I were a bad pairing. It became clear quickly once I had time to process everything. Again, maybe someday I’ll get to tell you about it but I learned a lot about what I wanted and what I didn’t in a person and I vowed not to jump into another relationship.
I found myself again in Mexico, back in October a few months after she left on a trip we were supposed to be on together. Hurricane Delta decided to hit the island as a category 3 and thereby giving me my first experience with a hurricane. Up close and personal. I made it out of course and got some great drone footage. :>
Aside from all that, 2020 was much like everyone else I’d imagine. I stayed in, started another Etsy business doing textiles and read a lot of books. I will say that something which has lingered all these years has been our common ground with books. One thing Celeste left me with was knowledge of textiles in the last years of our relationship and so I started making embroidered masks and selling them which exploded. This kept my mind in check and provided income while I was laid off for three months. Heh, oh yeah… That trip to Mexico? Well, I came home and the following Monday the company laid off half its senior people. I am still unemployed as I write this, going on two months. Such is life in my industry but I’ve picked up a few contracts and I had an interview in Houston last week that went well.
I hope you are doing well and happy.