I also have been spending a lot of me time this whole pandemic. Prior to pandemic, I was always out and about, but being home this -- being home this past year for long periods of time, it kind of let me focus on myself, my mental and physical well-being. I just had a lot of down time to actually focus on me. I quickly realized within like a couple months into the pandemic, that I really enjoy being alone and I prefer being alone and just staying home doing nothing versus going out and about with my friends, family members, and whatnot. So that's something that I've learned about myself. I do think compared to other people, I do think I had a decent pandemic experience. I know a lot of people didn't like the whole idea of staying home this whole entire time. I did ended up losing my job during the whole pandemic, so that was the downside to this whole situation, but I'm trying to make the best of the situation and hopefully I can actually land a job this year.

Today I'd like to tell you what we did to mark the one year anniversary of the pandemic. So we had a fire in our backyard with two other couples that we've met with throughout this pandemic with fires in our backyard. And right now all six of us have had two of the vaccines, so we're fully vaccinated, but we still met in the backyard. We sat around that fire and one by one we went around and we first listed, we just named all the losses that we've experienced this year. And these are some of the losses that I'll relate to you. One of them was, we lost our cruise to Europe. "I lost," one of the people said, "my retirement. I'm a teacher and this is not the way last year, I had to retire being shut down and I couldn't end with my class the way I would've wanted to." One of the couples there lost a sister in law to death, and have to learn now how to be an aunt and an uncle to their children. One of them, one of the couples said the big loss for them was a ninetieth birthday celebration that they had planned for months for their father, and some of their relatives were even coming who live overseas and they had to scrap the ninetieth birthday celebration. One of them said they lost a hundred year celebration for their church and their Dad who is ninety -- in his nineties was gonna be a central figure in that hundred year celebration, and that had to be scrapped. One of the people said "I didn't realize I was so social." And he was relating how he's lost all these opportunities that he's gotten together with friends and he didn't realize he was so social and missed it. One of the men there said, he's lost ensemble music. He plays a trombone and he's lost playing in many groups. One of the participants said they've lost singing in choir, and one of them said they'd lost they really miss watching sports in person. Okay, so then we went around and we said all the things that we've gained this year or insights that we've had this year. And so here's some of the things that I remember people saying. One of them said nature. They've gone on more walks…