Walk With Me #2 - My Steemit Hiatus

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Hey y'all

I've been away from the platform for about a week now, and I've sincerely missed all my friends on here, and all the people who certainly aren't my friends and without a doubt have zero clue who I am. But, still, I've missed all of it.

I have no real reason for my Steemit hiatus - other than that it was not really a Steemit-specific hiatus, but a random break from quite a few things.

I've done a lot in the past week and at the same time, I feel like I've done nothing at all. My break from the computer coincided with Valentine's Day, and I think there was an obvious influence there. I honestly don't approve of Valentine's Day one bit, nor most "capitalist holidays" of this nature, but I still always try to make it a special day for my girlfriend and I and all that corny stuff.

Anyways, I took my girlfriend snowboarding on that day, and when we got home I obviously had no intention of going on Steemit. We are in the fortunate position for the next month or so of being able to spend most of our time together, which is rare, so I guess I just kind of continued the notion.

In fact, I really can't recall picking up my computer at all during the last week.

I've jumped on here from time to time, but mainly to make sure I wasn't missing anyone who may have been trying to contact me for any reason. I also would occasionally watch films on my computer with the intent to review them on here, as well as album reviews, but I guess other things kept coming up.

I did get the opportunity to go snowboarding quite a bit recently, which I am very happy about. Snowboarding is a huge passion of mine, a kind of therapy in some aspects, that has been missing from my life for years due to financial issues and other issues stemming from financial issues. But things are looking a lot better now.

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So there's that. I've brought a big passion back into my life. I'm sitting here honestly trying to think, what the hell else have I been doing?

I filed for tax returns. I prepped food in a restaurant I used to work in. I spent three hours straight chipping ice(for no reason) while listening to early 2000's hardcore. I took in the bottles. I got drunk. Then I got sick. I listened to all 24 episodes of the podcast "Up and Vanished" straight. I didn't even intend to start listening. I made a craigslist post about looking for random work. I instead received a lot of scams. After becoming tired of calling out the scammers, I spent hours on end trolling them, instead. I cashed in a year's collection of change. I heard about my cousin getting engaged. I ate two tortilla wraps, plain, and called it a day. I burned a teepee into the sheath of a wood chisel of mine with a soldering iron. I don't remember why I did it. I've never drawn a teepee in my life. And I took my dog to a pond, as you can clearly see.

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That was a small insight into how entertainingly boring my life really is. I can find so much entertainment in these things. Anything really. And I love that.

So. What have you all been doing?

What have I missed? As many of you know, I am usually pretty active here, and really like to stay up to date with the people I've connected with on the platform. I am going to try to catch up on my own as much as possible, but it's gonna be tough and I feel like I might not get it done to the extent I'd like to. So, if you have anything interesting to share, please share it with me, here!