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Dear Diary, Before the pandemic, if I was out and about for "non-essential" reasons, there was a pretty high likelihood I was going to a gig. I love live music. For someone who took piano lessons for roughly a third of their life, my own playing is rubbish, but I get a buzz out of …
Dear Diary, I had a frustrating experience not too long ago while trying to make an online purchase. When I entered the billing address, I repeatedly got an error message telling me it contained invalid characters. After several attempts, I finally released what the invalid character was. The pesky hyphen in my name. I deleted …
Dear Diary, Life is pretty normal. I returned to the office about a month ago, part-time at first, but I'm back to full-time hours now. I've gone out for lunch and dinner a few times since COVID-19 restrictions eased, and even though I was nervous beforehand, it's been fine once I'm there. Though I think …
Dear Diary, This week, I returned to the office for the first time since my workplace went into lockdown three months ago. And as much as I like my job and the people I work with, I was... apprehensive. Plenty of people have developed some form of coronavirus-related anxiety during the pandemic, and I guess …
Dear Diary, You're more of a journal than a diary. A diary is where I'd record things like "10:00 meeting with General Kenobi" or "Death Star plans due COB", probably on a daily basis. Whereas a journal is where I talk about my thoughts, feelings, etc. whenever it suits me. But I enjoy the alliteration …
Dear Diary, Today, I give you life. I'm not a mummy blogger, but I guess I'm a blog mummy? Haha. You're not my first blog baby. I've had a few. And I've managed to keep my Bon Jovi fan blog, Blame It On The Love, going since 2008 (which makes it the longest commitment I've …
