Monday Weirdness

I am on Amtrak on the way to Cathy’s right now.

We are stuck in Stamford…. Have been for the last 45 minutes.

I am unplugging and going off the grid this week.

While I am house-sitting for Cathy, I’m taking the time to reset my head, paint, meditate, and de-stress. 

I haven’t had the opportunity to do something like this since before Daya was born, since…well, forever.  I need it.

Literally right before I left I got an instagram notification that Little Island featured my painting on their Instagram account.  So my Insta started blowing up, in a good way.

And then….

Facebook and Instagram (and Whatsapp) went down.

I admit I got a bit scared, because I didn’t check the news.  Even though I am so careful about my online activity and not getting hacked, when my Instagram stopped working and nothing would fix it, then my Facebook was inaccessible, I got scared.

So I asked Dru and she told me everything is down. Which is also on the news.

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And my train is on hold due to a lengthy police emergency- I overheard someone saying someone tried to make it across the tracks in time but…didn’t… or someone was on the tracks somehow and was killed-that’s unverified information though.

Anyhow the point is it’s a weird day. The day I’m checking out all this stuff is happening.

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I’m just going to keep my calm and breathe, and be still while the world is freaking out in spinny chaos.

It’s weirdly stressful and a strange start to my artist-retreat-cat-house-sitting week!

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UPDATE: just as I was finishing this short post, we left Stamford! It will be slow to New Haven but at least we are moving…. We were there for almost an hour. I still don’t know what happened officially.