Lockdown anniversary & h/c

Tomorrow is the three year anniversary of the first COVID lockdown in Austria, and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it this past week. Three years! Friday March 13th 2020 was the day the upcoming lockdown was announced, we all sat down at the office to talk about it and then everyone went grocery and toilet paper shopping during lunch break (except me because DD had already done that the day before, on a tip from my mom.) And then on Monday the lockdown started. It was weird and it sucked. And then it ended, and then we had more lockdowns, and then there were finally vaccines, and now it's been three years and sometimes everything feels almost "normal" again and sometimes it feels like we're all just pretending for the sake of being able to deal with the constant risk (that is lower now but still there) and anxiety about this and so many other things.

I signed up for hurtcomfortex - my first non-Yuletide exchange in over three years, I'm a bit nervous but mostly excited. I found out that there's an automatic app for any exchange now and I've been having fun browsing it here and already coming up with ideas. I still like the idea of writing a letter though so I still wrote one, even though as of now it's pretty much exactly the same information as in my sign-up, I'm planning to come back and expand on it a bit later.