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Hello and Goodbye to December!
December has felt like three months. Or longer. Yet it passed within the blink of an eye.
I don’t even know how it is December already. Let alone almost 2022.
The last thing I remember, it was October and I was upset that the stores were putting out Christmas stuff before Halloween!
I think I even heard the first Christmas song before November…
I started my underemployment around July or August.
Around October, seeing Xmas stuff out already — I got a pit in my stomach.
You know the one… that pangy one that alerts you to danger and bad times coming ahead!
The five-week course I began teaching on October 19th, finished on November 28th, and my last paycheck was December 3rd.
I’ve spent the entire month just full of anxiety and dread.
I’m lucky that I do get child support around the 7th of each month, and the child tax credit has been an absolute blessing and necessity!
December was truly not my month.
Nor was November, or October for that matter.
2021 started and ended the same way. With anxiety, depression, fatigue… It’s been a hell of a year.
