Your prompt for #JusJoJan and Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “first thing.” Start your post with the words, “first thing” and go from there. Bonus points if you end your post with the last thing. Have fun!
First thing this year I determined things were going to be different. Things were going to get better! Positive thinking I told myself.
Okay we are in Lockdown I have got used to that by now. Then the first thing that started to dash my spirits was the climbing deaths and numbers of people seriously ill in hospital. Also the rising numbers of positive cases not only here but world .
The first thing I must say now is sorry for moaning, yet come to think of it I am just stating facts.
As far as I can see things are not improving yet and I can’t see them doing so for a long while yet.
I had better stop this rant oops ramble through this post as sounding boring or depressing everyone is , as my intent, the last thing!
First thing, last thing Tanka.
First thing I started
With hope to move swiftly on.
My intention was
Not to moan or to complain
No on my mind the last thing.
willowdot21 
Jan 16, 2021 @ 14:04:33
Great take, sis 🥰
Jan 16, 2021 @ 14:08:39
It was a bit of a winge!
Jan 16, 2021 @ 16:29:49
We’re all allowed a whinge!
Jan 16, 2021 @ 16:45:40
Thank you sis 💜💜💜💜
Jan 16, 2021 @ 15:26:31
I love the picture. It summarizes 2020 perfectly. things are just as bad (if not worse) in South Africa.
Jan 16, 2021 @ 16:05:39
It seems bad everywhere, let’s all pull together and stay safe 💜💜💜
Jan 16, 2021 @ 17:04:22
Yes, these are facts. Sometimes it sounds like moping but I see it like acceptance.
Jan 16, 2021 @ 17:12:11
Yes indeed, and I respect it as I know it exists! Lost mother in law to it, and our middle son had covid and was ill with it…. So I moan from a place of belief! 💜💜
Jan 17, 2021 @ 03:02:34
As that expression goes: it is what it is… and we are allowed, now and again, to moan just a little…
Jan 17, 2021 @ 08:07:38
Trouble is I had determined not too but the socs just took me that way💜💜💜
Jan 17, 2021 @ 12:15:30
🧡🧡🧡
Jan 17, 2021 @ 11:47:15
💜💜💜
Jan 17, 2021 @ 04:40:24
New year, new . . . well, you’re right: new, sad, sobering, scary statistics.
While we might resolve to have a “new and improved” year, COVID doesn’t play by any rules but it’s own.
Sometimes it’s hard to hold onto the positive . . .
Jan 17, 2021 @ 08:09:33
Yes indeed, you are right. The virus has not decided to behave yet!! 💜💜
Jan 17, 2021 @ 07:15:56
I tell my kids not to dwell on the negative, but am not very good at following that advice!
Jan 17, 2021 @ 08:12:09
It is hard isn’t it! We need to find ways to cope and moaning at least purges things! And at this point in time we are better off “negative” than “positive” 😉💜💜💜