Hi, SprinkL3
Good wishes with you plans. R and I will cheer you on. For me, baby steps work best. R and I have been posting on this thread for a long time. I've seen a lot of posts with grand ideas, and typically they don't work. So, for my two cents worth, take small steps and know you've accomplished something each time you take a small step. Anyway, that's what works for me. As R says, feel free to ignore my advice if it doesn't resonate with you.
R. That IRS message sounds like a scam on so many levels. Be careful.
Me - The biggest impact that COVID had on me is that the isolation made me less sociable than before, and less energetic than before. I'm trying to reverse that, but just one step at a time. I get depressed sometimes - I'm an introvert, but I do need a certain amount of human contact to feel okay. I don't think COVID impacted me as badly as it did other people.
My writing is going well. Yay! Interesting observation. My heroine is entering an abandoned mine, and I wanted to give it a name that wasn't already used by an actual mine. It took me over an hour to find something. It was incredible. Every name I looked up on the Internet was already used by some mine. I started with old-fashioned women's names - already in use. I tried names like Dirty Devil and Hell's Gate. all of them already in use. How many mines do we have on this planet?