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weekly retro #48: imagine what i would have done if i didn't get covid

it's a new year! i did a retro on my prior year goals and stated new ones. when i wrote it, i had hopes that i'd make it through the week covid-free, but then i had a rough night and i knew it got me.

"i lived bitch meme" screenshot of a text from a man including a selfie where he's in a hospital bed with a bandage on his face and he's saying "i lived bitch"

i come to you a few days later, after a peak that included shivers so violent my entire core is sore and a 103F fever that had me talking to my late grandma.

photo of my air dry clay lemon pig after it was painted so it looks like a real lemon where i cut ears, added peppercorns for eyes, an dshoved a penny in its mouth

i still feel like total garbagino, but i'm a lot better than i was 48 hours ago. i haven't left the house since tuesday night, so the swarm app keeps sending alerts asking me if i forgot to check in to places. what a blessing to be able to set the new year bar so low lol.

photo of spaghetti just put into a pot. there are some small broken pieces on the stove

literally why did i take this photo?

things i enjoyed this week

i am hoping that tonight is the last rough one, i have a feeling it one be so bad. happy new year and sunday scaries.

xoxo jenn

this was published January 4, 2026 under living health weekly-retro sick covid

2026: again, another year of blog on the desktop, again, another time

it is new years eve as i start this, around 9:30pm. i'm sitting on the couch alone in quasi-silence - my upstairs neighbors are blasting music and there's the typical commotion outside during holidays. one of us in this apartment is getting over covid and it's not me. we'd like to keep it that way, hence me being alone on a couch...

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weekly retro #47: the one i almost forgot because what day is it even

this is the hardest time of the year to keep track of the days. even when i wasn't making my own schedule, these last several days of december are special and chaotic and slow all at once for so many people. but as the clock struck 8:25pm i shot up from my horizontal position on the couch, watching youtube on my phone, and exclaimed 'holy shit, it's sunday, i need to write my retro!' happy sunday, let's rock...

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weekly retro #42: sick of the cold and my phone

i closed my retro last week with "i have a bit of a cold right now that i hope goes the fuck away after a good night's rest. i just need to work on the good night's rest part." well, she did not get a good night's rest and the cold did not go the fuck away. in fact, it knocked me off my ass to the point that i missed all my aerial and ceramics classes and couldn't visit my dad.

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