The Invisible Woman Chronicles

 If there is anything that has been good about the pandemic, it's working at home.  It's a relief.  It's not to say there isn't issues, no situation is perfect, but this has worked for me and I'm happy.  I can't believe how happy it makes me. I never understood office socializing. I got into trouble a lot for being "quiet" or being "introverted".  Is it a bad thing to be productive?  I did talk to people, but I just didn't know what to say a lot of times because I didn't have the same interests or I just found myself trying to look interested in something I knew nothing about that and it was painful. I will never understand why back stabbing is a sport, especially among women.  Why?  I started my first office job in the early 90s and there was a wonderful woman that worked in a different group that worked with at night.  I had zero training but lots of opportunity for overtime.  When you're getting paid pennies, overtime looked go...

The pandemic really made me feel so disappointed in people and their bad behavior. I am vaccinated, double boosted and will get another booster in 6 months if I find out that's what is recommended. First up, I'm not a sheep.  COVID is such an unknown thing that has happened in all of our lives, what's wrong with wanting to protect my health and the health of others?  Is that the definition of a sheep?  Being thoughtful of others?  Wanting everyone to be healthy and safe? I was excited to get my first shot. I got it at a convention center in downtown Milwaukee.  It was a FEMA dude who gave me my first and second shot. I remember that the first one was from Seattle and the second one was from San Francisco. I thanked both profusely for giving me that secure feeling that things were going to be ok.  I liked my little sticker that I got when I left the center. I ripped that sticker off as soon as I started hearing people saying "Nobody's going to tell me what t...

I'm not the only invisible person in this world.  I'm learning to embrace this quality as a super power.   There's plenty of us around.  People aren't aware of this thing because they are talking over this invisible person.  Or interrupting them.  When an invisible person talks, people will not respond to what they're talking about, but another subject. It's not just about talking over someone.  It's about not paying attention to people like the invisible because we're paying attention to the ones who speak the loudest and complain the loudest.  Invisible people are generally happy with what they are given or when they have a concern, they try to address it in a manner that's thoughtful and won't hurt others.  Their concerns generally get ignored. I was and still am somewhat of a quiet person.  I can be rather talkative around someone that makes me feel comfortable but I'm not good at small talk.  I find it awkward and kind of insin...