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Hey fellow rebels, so I typed in "r" into the tag list while thinking about which tags do apply and it gave me the option to add druid, and I went straight to "naaaahhhh I'm not a druid!" but then I kept thinking about it, and maybe that knee-jerk reaction is old info? I have been a Ranger from the very first challenge way back years and years ago. I added the barbarian when I followed my crush and did meet the barbell for the first time and it was love at first sight. But in the last... year - year and a half - my life changed so very much. And I have gotten a garden allotment and I tasked myself with taking good care of this piece of land. So maybe Druid, as in steward of the land, is a thing I'll endeavour to incorporate more actively and more consciously into my life. Yes, there's the pandemic, but everyone has to deal with that. But my life changed, a lot, and not (just) because of the pandemic. My husband and I did separate in June 2019, first family vacation EVER July 2019 camping with the kids, just the 3 of us for 5 days. I started at a new job and joined a gym in September 2019. Spend days and days on the ice rink with the kids January 2020, started looking for a garden February/March 2020, the world started to go mad in March, I signed a lease for a garden allotment in April/May 2020. My garden. It's not all that has happened, obviously, and people deal with all kinds of shit everywhere, but I feel like my desire to connect with the land, spend time with my kids outside yet not around random people... that's a thing. The tendency to not go outside, because out there be monsters, it's not healthy, the goal for this coming year, and I am potentially heavily applying the Never Not Twice In A Row rule, I want to be in the garden with my kids every day from March to September (at least). We've spent the entire last week cleaning up the shrubbery and trees and did the cuts and things, we have a lot of wooden things lying in a huge pile on the yard now, but we'll cut the smaller stuff down in the next weeks and sort the thicker branches away after that. I have seeds in germination module trays over-taking my kitchen, waiting for spring to come, and it Will come. I'm practicing my habits. Some need more work, a lot more work, quite a few actually fit quite well already. This month I want to practice doing shit when it pops up on my radar, not carry to do's until I break under the stress. Keep habits going. Keep mental health and weight under control, in that order. Maybe find a place to intern for a few days a week or in the summer or whatnot to learn basket weaving... Other adventures. Happy Spring Returning Katrin a.k.a. Morag

Ok, so here's the deal: The world has gone mad and life doesn't give a flying fuck, it goes on, unless it doesn't, and that's shitty enough, for so many people and their loved ones right now. So we're gonna use what we have when we have it, and ranger the hell out of this situation, corona pandemic be damned. Hi, I'm Katrin, Morag on the internet most days now. I'm 36yo, ~169cm, 100kg. I'm a single mom of two beautiful angel boys ages 16 and 9, yeah they drive me up the walls most days, and no, since I started working this last September they have plugged their ears and pretend they don't hear anything I say,especially if I am not at home like I was for the last almost 15 years. We live in northern Germany, in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein to be precise, and yes my still-husband and co-parent does live 25 min walk from our home. So, apart from corona induced isolation, he is a semi-active part of our lives even though he moved out last summer. He works in the train station book shop, which is open even now. I work on a dementia ward, and yes, I am using "ward" loosely here. I love lifting barbells. But for now fitness centers are closed down as so much of public life is. For now my almost cured back issues have blossomed to real issues, thanks to me not doing my exercises here at home. So I think I should get over myself already and do the work. That's on my list. I am off work this entire break week, which is nice. I have a therapy session tomorrow morning just before 10, need to buy hand repair cream from the pharmacist, and grab a few asian market supplies then cycle home, food delivery between 2 and 4 p.m., I believe and apart from that: isolation until Sunday. Plus get the kids to do their school work and chores, practice routines. And work Monday, Tuesday and Saturday Sunday next week. That's the plan. Very rambly unsorted plan, but still my plan. For now: isolation and parenting. Break week here we come.