My 2021 Year in Review (You Aren’t Going to Like It and I Hope You Read It Anyway)

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Last Updated on January 3, 2022 by Natalie

Though everyone (including me) was ready to be done with 2020, I didn’t hold out much hope for 2021 being better. Sadly, it wasn’t better in far too many ways. Watching my fellow humans gleefully impose restrictions upon and generally oppress their friends and family was sickening. I watched at least one country return to their penal colony roots by becoming an incredibly oppressive jail for the innocent. More than one country made it impossible to live life without getting an experimental jab (which is showing to not be effective at all, resulting in more hospitalizations and restrictions even in countries with really high jab rates – seriously, look up Israel. There are also a lot of athletes collapsing while playing their sport and other things that are being explained away as nothing. I even saw a 12 year old’s death described as natural causes. What?!) There are even reports of camps for those infected. Does carting off people to camps remind you of anything?

I watched my own country continue to accept the same old and worse crap, but this time from a new ruler (so that makes it better, apparently). And I watched as people tore into each other without using logic or even a hint of skepticism that these oppressive, blanket policies that require force are WRONG. Wrong AND harmful.

We will see the fallout from this stupidity for many, many years and most of us will not connect the dots… which makes us doomed to repeat history.

Warning: This post is over 5800 words long and controversial by today’s standards. Read at your own risk. Or just read the next paragraph and find something else.

First, the travel

Has my intro upset you and you are about to close this? Or write a scathing comment? Great! Here’s the travel information:

Travel in 2020:

• La Griega, Queretaro, Mexico
• Puerto Vallarta
• Cozumel
• USA

You can read my 2020 review here.

Travel in 2021:

• La Paz, Mexico
• Merida
• USA

Flights taken in 2021: 8

5 hour layovers: 2

Miles traveled: 9,132 (approximate)

Mayan Ruins visited: 1

I would’ve traveled more, but traveling got a bit more expensive in 2021 and I wasn’t always able to find something affordable. My last minute planning, trying to wait out any additional stupid restrictions, did not help me this year.

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January

I realized when we returned home from our December, 2020 trip to the USA, that I was homesick. Our visit to Burr Oak Lodge in Ohio was amazing, as was the entire trip. I couldn’t stand the way we had to live in Mexico for the past year. Seeing my family after a full year and for only a short trip (hindsight is 20/20, that trip should’ve been at least two weeks this time) made me realize that I wanted to move back home. Yes, I’d float around in the neighborhood pool and realize that I would miss the weather very much. It didn’t matter. I wanted to be able to see the people I love on a regular basis. Plus, I still don’t have any close friends in Queretaro.

I started house hunting in Ohio.

February

Candidly, both January and February were frustrating. I wanted to go home, while simultaneously not wanting to leave because of the weather and the ability to go to the beaches easily. My sister convinced me to try to convince my parents to move closer to her (she moved to a different state last year due to a job change and I might not be in my home state too much over the next few years – who knows yet!) Spoiler alert: They probably won’t. That did not stop me from looking at properties in her state. Plus, looking in Ohio – all over, just in case my husband could work from home frequently when we returned.

Second spoiler alert: That’s probably not happening. It’s okay. It just means that I can’t move south quite yet. Have I mentioned how much I love the weather in central Mexico? If I haven’t: I LOVE the weather in central Mexico. While I do love the snow in Ohio, I’m over it by about January 2nd every year and winter continues through March and even April. In fact, it snows in April every year in Ohio and every year, everyone is shocked. EVERY. YEAR.

March

March kind of sucked. We waited so long to plan our Spring Break trip that everything was really expensive. Trying to rent a place one on those rent your vacation home sites was slim pickings. I looked for places nearby with pools to rent even for just a few days because I could not handle staying home for a week with my kids and husband and having nothing to do. Staying home with nothing to do was my regular life and I needed a break. I wanted the kids to be able to use a pool whenever they wanted. I wanted us to have some space to move around in, as our home in Queretaro is small and the back yard is small and filled with leaf cutter ants.

Then, an idea popped into my head. My husband’s friend had given us an open invitation to visit him in La Paz.

“Can we go to La Paz?” I asked my husband. “The beaches are open at 50% capacity.”

“I can find out,” he responded.

And just like that, plans were made. I was a little worried because we can be boisterous, to put it politely.

April

First thing we do in April is celebrate our anniversary. My husband and I have been married for 10 years. We also drove to Guadalajara to start our trip.

For Spring Break, we hopped on a flight to La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. We stayed with a friend who had a pool and it was like we had died and gone to heaven. Heaven in this case being the perfect vacation. Since we were staying with a friend of my husband’s, I was worried we’d be too loud or too much for him. He was out living his life during our few meltdowns and we were out at the beaches a lot. La Paz is a place I could live. The beaches around there are beautiful. Having access to your own private pool is priceless. On our last day, we went out on our host’s boat and got to see whales. Really, I couldn’t have planned a better trip for us.

We finally made an offer on land that we both liked in Ohio. I’d been watching it since January, but while it was priced well, it had seemed not affordable for us. We made the offer, they verbally countered, but we felt we couldn’t meet it. Unfortunately, two days later, I’d realized that we probably should’ve agreed. We contacted them again but it was already in contract. A similar situation happened to us one year ago, too. No one was interested for months and when we finally make an offer, suddenly there’s someone swooping in and getting the property. We are still sad about missing out on that first lot, but someone literally came along and bought the whole farm. I currently feel that I’m watching us get completely priced out of properties close(ish) to my husband’s place of work.

A few days later, I found out that my husband’s assignment was likely being extended. Instead of leaving in March, 2022, it was being extended until the end of July, 2022. We knew this was a possibility given the stupidity of 2020 and all of the delays caused during that year.

After spring break, the tutor we’d hired to help the kids with their online classwork let me know she had found another job. She would be working in what is dubbed a “bubble school,” except in this case, the school was hiring her and not just a group of parents. It would be likely they’d keep her on for the following year, making it a really good  opportunity for her. She also gave me a full two weeks notice, which is unusual in Mexico.

Luckily, I was able to find a bubble school for my kids to attend three days per week and it was so much better for them than online schooling (and I liked how my school was handling it, online schooling just wasn’t working for my kids). The first day I dropped them off at their bubble, I realized just how abnormal life had been for over a year. My kids had been stuck at home, because I still couldn’t take them that many places. They hadn’t been able to go anywhere regularly, which I’m sure affects them.

It was also this month that we went to a restaurant that had their playground open and with nannies to watch it. Most child areas are still closed and who knows what the nannies are doing for work. My kids got to play with other kids and had an absolute blast.

Living life normally, even when others disagree with that choice, is uplifting. It’s okay to live your life as you see fit, even when it’s against the norm.

May

May found us living life and planning a trip to Progreso and Chicxulub, Yucatan, Mexico. For reference, it’s near Merida . It didn’t go the way I wanted it to go. We had a private pool and a place on the beach, which was a dream come true. However, it wasn’t really fun or relaxing. It was difficult to keep sand out of the house, the towels would only dry if I kept them in our bedroom which had AC overnight, and the tiles were slippery when wet. So, it was a constant “dry off with a wet towel” and “keep the sand out of the house” all week. We also only had around 4-5 towels for beach, pool, and showering for four people. I would’ve liked to have a few more.

There were other issues and I ended up being bored while trying valiantly to enjoy this vacation that was quite a bit more expensive than our usual vacation costs due to having to rent a car. Normally on vacation, I get a lot of activity and I can tell we are all strengthening our muscles. This wasn’t the case during this vacation. I was just so disappointed. It was annoying to have spent so much money and be disappointed. It was many small things that collectively led to this disappointment because nothing was particularly bad. I did get to visit Uxmal ruins, which I enjoyed.

However, I didn’t get to see flamingos.

June

June rolled in so fast. It felt like it was never ending January and then, WHAM! It’s June already. I’ve already finished 145 books this year. It’s awesome that I achieved my goal of reading 100, but I was working on writing some stories with a goal to finish one of them. I can’t or don’t want to – something. I don’t know the reason I can’t pick up the pen to continue even just one of the three or four options I have. One of them is actually really good, too.

The kids’ school participated in the pilot program to return kids to in person classes. I started to be able to move around a bit more normally and realized how incredible that felt. I’m one of the ones who knows that these restrictive policies aren’t working, don’t work, and were never going to work. This just reiterated to me that they don’t work.

I also finally fumigated the house and the backyard. I saw two cockroaches in the house right after our vacation (and I’d seen two cockroaches in one of the bedrooms of the vacation house) and I was freaked out that a cockroach had hitched a ride in our luggage. This apparently isn’t a thing that most people need to worry about. Fumigation finally got rid of the ants in the backyard. I also never saw another cockroach. Yay!

July

My kids started a day camp this month, right after school ended. This is the happiest they’ve been in a long time. It took place at their school and allowed them a place to be creative, run around and play with other kids, without being too terribly restrictive.

Other than the overuse of gel. And having to wear masks (there are plenty of credible scientific studies that show that masks in general don’t work to limit the spread of viruses and cloth masks may actually be detrimental. This is why the virus didn’t stop with the use of masks. I understand this information is difficult to find, yet it’s out there, and being skeptical doesn’t make you anti-anything).

July ended up being an incredible month for our entire family. My kids loved going to camp. I had a few hours each day to do errands. My husband had a week off during one of the weeks of camp. He and I visited some touristy sites around Queretaro without having to drag the children along. My husband commented how relaxing it was to just stay home and not travel anywhere.

Restrictions were slightly lifted and two members of the same family could enter stores. Of course, since I have two kids and I’m the only adult with them for the vast majority of the day, that wasn’t super helpful.

August

My kids finished up their fourth week of camp, which was a resounding success. The kids’ school decided to extend camp for two additional weeks. The kids were so excited, that I happily signed them and paid the fee. However, on the third day of the first additional week, the school decided to close it down because two PARENTS tested positive for the most dreaded disease of mankind (please, I’m being sarcastic. Even a cursory look at the reported data, which was shoddily collected, shows it was never something to destroy freedom over). They did the right thing in the eyes of the state. As a parent, I wasn’t worried at all. We have already forgotten that viruses and colds are a normal part of life and fighting them may even be important for our immune systems. Candidly, I’m far more worried about the constant overuse of antibacterial gel around the entire country – as well as the overuse of antibacterial soap. It’s nearly impossible to find soap refills here that aren’t antibacterial. I have to buy new pump bottles, shower gel, and other creative soap solutions.

Though I’d wanted to go somewhere in August, we decided that since camp was extending, we wouldn’t plan a trip. Our kids were happy, so we were happy. So when it ended early and we didn’t have plans, I had to think of something else for my kids.

Once I heard about camp ending a week and half early, I purchased a tiny trampoline. Then, we purchased a larger trampoline for outside (the link shows one that’s really similar, though ours came from Mexico). Once we had it set up, watching the kids bounce themselves happy, I wondered why in the heck I hadn’t bought in April of 2020. This purchase is one of the BEST purchases that I’ve made this year.

Of course, activities got restricted again and only one family member at a time in stores. I think the mall still allows two (and maybe even families who want to go get food – I saw families but it was hard to tell if they’d allow me in with two kids or not).

September

At the very last minute, I finally got all of the school supplies purchased. I really thought the education department was going to stop in-person classes again because they don’t have a brain. So, two days before my kids were due to start, I finally completed my shopping. I’m pretty certain I was supposed to drop off the supplies the week before. Instead, I dropped them off the morning that my kids started school. Yes, I felt incredibly bad about making the teachers’ jobs harder. I also had to forgive myself for it. After apologizing to everyone (in Spanish), of course.

Unfortunately, even though people here won’t even buckle their kids when they are in the car, let alone use a car seat, I’ve seen masks on babies. This really bothers me. I know information is suppressed, so I can only shake my head and hope that people will start using their brains to think instead of being fearful. The ridiculous things that the school has to comply with and therefore DO to the kids is crazy. Kids have to wear masks the entire day. They cannot touch each other (no hugs, etc), even if they are from the same family. If they want to put water into their reusable water bottle, the entire thing has to be completely cleaned. If the kids touch anything, those items have to be sanitized. The list of craziness goes on and on. How can this be a healthy learning environment? It can’t. It’s not healthy. It’s psychologically harmful.

I worry for the kids and the people. The trauma we have inflicted upon each other is far worse than even the potential residual effects of the virus. We haven’t even begun to see the consequences. When we do, will they even be correctly attributed to the public policies that each country enforced?

Are the benefits of school worth the shit they are going through now?

Our world was small in Celaya due to the violence. We stayed mostly in our gorgeous (and safe) neighborhood, visiting the mall and Walmart, and the houses of our friends. I thought because Queretaro was larger and considered safer, that our world would be larger. Instead, the world shrank to the size of our smaller house. It’s September, I’ve lived in Queretaro for a year and a half, and I still don’t have any close friends here. I only know a handful of people. Thankfully, my kids still have a few friends around the neighborhood but I’ve noticed there are less kids around with whom they can play. Our world feels so small and so closed right now.

We moved to Mexico to expand our world and our perspectives. Instead, I see the same closed of minds that I currently see in the US. I see people who are so scared that they don’t want to allow their children to function normally. Again, this is why I believe we are very much mentally harming and traumatizing people and children. It will continue until people stop being fearful and stand up for their rights and the rights of their peers. Remember, individual rights ARE the greater good.

October

October found me feeling a little blue at times (again). I decided that since there seemed to be some supply chain interruptions happening, according to the news, that I’d finally write a post about disaster prep while living as an expat. This is something I have had to think about a few times as an expat.

In January, 2019, there was a gas shortage crisis in central Mexico and that was the first time we thought about making sure we had enough food if the gas shortages lasted awhile. This crisis was caused completely by the government (surprise) who shut off the gas lines to try to curb theft. It was declared a great success, though it just pushed more crime on innocent citizens in the form of more car jackings. This was a particular worry for those who were driving newer, large SUVS as they were big enough to transport huge tanks of gas. Being somewhat prepared for a natural or man-made disaster is just smart. I’m not saying go out and learn how to live off-grid. No, just have enough food and water to last a little while in case something like that happens.

We also started decorating for Halloween and Day of the Dead this month. While I’ve always decorated for it a little, this year, we added a lot more decorations than we’ve had before. My younger child was adamant that we needed more decorations. Since it’s the only holiday for which we decorate, we went for it.

My Spanish teacher showed me an incredibly beautiful video that helps to explain a little bit about the Day of the Dead. I highly recommend it. It’s emotional and beautiful and gives some insight into the Mayan and Mexican cultures (it’s in Mayan with Spanish subtitles and you can get English subtitles, too). I really hope you take the time to watch it (and no, I’m not getting anything from it if you do).

In mid to late October, we finally found out that my husband’s assignment is being extended officially. Very cool! We thought we were heading back in around 5-6 months and instead, it’ll be in 8 months. We have been given lots of different dates for departure and to finally know for sure eliminates that minor stress of when. I didn’t have a preference for when we move back to the USA, not exactly. I feel both ready and not ready, oddly. I am a little glad that we aren’t leaving in early April because it’s one of the hotter months here and it’s still cold in Ohio in April. What can I say? I have adapted rather well to the central Mexico climate (which is currently one of my favorite climates EVER and I will repeat this ad nauseam for life).

I spend a rather large amount of time envisioning what it will be like to be back in Ohio next year. We are definitely less than a year away from moving back. There won’t be any more extensions this time. When we move back, we will have spent just over 5 mostly wonderful years here and for that I’m grateful. I am trying to soak up everything I can while I’m still here.

Another little aside, I started taking a friend of my children to school every day. It’s amazing because it makes drop off so much easier for my children. We had lunch with the friend and her mom this past week. She’s French. I think it’s amazing to move to a place and expect that you’ll end up with a ton of local friends and end up with a lot of international friends, too. So far, along with my Mexican friends, my friends have hailed from Australia, Wales, India (though they had been living in Canada for a long time), France, Japan, and even Columbia. The owners of a little restaurant I like to frequent are from Venezuela – and are also some of the kindest people I’ve ever met.

Also during October, my next door neighbor was robbed. At 7:30 in the morning (yes, it’s light out by then). We live in a gated community, but most of our perimeter wall is  surrounded by empty fields of overgrown brush. Directly behind our house’s wall, there’s a dirt road that’s used with some frequency by trucks and other vehicles. Two men cut the fence above the wall, hopped down into my neighbor’s yard, popped out his window, and stole his laptop. My neighbor was home at this time. He was very shaken and added several safety measures the same day.

As this is the FOURTH break-in in about a year’s time (more than we had in our “dangerous” city of Celaya), the entire neighborhood is incredibly upset and huge security changes are being implemented. I recommend to not rent or buy a house on the perimeter of a neighborhood if you can avoid it. If you can’t, take extra precautions to deter would-be thieves. We believe they are tipped off by someone who regularly visits the neighborhood in most cases. My neighbor gives classes from his home and we do believe he was targeted. At 7:30 in the morning, my house is already hopping and that’s not the case for my neighbor (who was home at the time and I’m thankful that he’s okay).

We also didn’t know that our windows can be popped out so easily and now, we don’t allow our children to go downstairs until we are awake. It’s not my favorite thing, though it’s not a huge impact on them most days.

November

November rolled in and brought with it even more awareness of how easily manipulated people are allowing themselves to be. There’s a huge lack of critical thinking applied to way too many things.

I’d also gotten into watching Tiny House videos earlier in the year somehow. I believe it started after I’d read a book in the late summer or early autumn where the main character was obsessed with Doctor Pimple Popper. I started watching her videos and then scrolled through the suggestions that weren’t Mindful Movement meditations (which are fantastic and I recommend them). Watching Tiny House videos led to finding interesting people who were traveling in their tiny homes and/or living off grid. I really like Ariel from Fy Nyth.  She has such a calm manner and intelligent way of speaking.

It makes me remember that there are a lot of survival skills that many of us no longer have. Though my mom knows how to can (or put stuff in jars and preserve it with a seal since non-Americans don’t use the term canning for this), she didn’t do it while I was growing up. My grandmother used to can, too. She also used to wash clothes by hand until they got a machine to do it. I know how to wash clothes, so that doesn’t worry me. I’ve done it while traveling. It isn’t the easiest thing unless it’s only small items like underwear and socks. However, washing clothing in a hotel bathtub is do-able (and I did it while traveling solo with my kids).

For the past two years, I’ve been in Cozumel on my birthday. Yes, even last year (2020). I was on the beach in the morning and then landing in Mexico City by the evening. This year, I didn’t make our plans soon enough in advance and my resort of choice was sold out. I also looked for last minute trips to La Paz and a few other places, but nothing affordable caught my eye. It’s okay. I’m still helping the mom from school by taking her daughter to school daily, so life around school is overall fairly peaceful.

For my birthday, I decided to finally take advantage of the climate and try to grow some dill, since I can’t get it fresh here, and a few other veggies. Even though I enjoy gardening, I guess I didn’t really want to do it enough to get containers going. Since we are returning in July, I won’t be able to have much of a garden (though I may try to do some cold weather veggies). I decided that I wouldn’t wait any longer. Plus, once I saw the package of dill seeds, they along with 10 kilos of compost and two clay pots came home with me. As well as some other plants and seeds since the kids were with me and they really wanted to grow things. As growing vegetables is a great skill to have, we came home with a few things to help continue to grow their green thumbs. And mine because I’m not the best as gardening.

December

December 1 found my read book total to be 232. I hadn’t planned to read so many books again and I exceeded my 100 book goal pretty early on in the year. It still took the pressure off and I did get some writing done. Again, I did less writing than I had hoped to do. Happily, I did write and I did “finish” one of my novels. Of course, finish is in quotes because while it’s finished, it’s short by nearly half of the word count needed to be published and I didn’t quite wrap up all the plot pieces. I’ve been having a hard time finishing the book that’s supposed to be first in the series, though I did work quite a bit on that story, too.

I’ve clearly barely written for Blissmersion this year. I did a lot of traveling last year and in the first half of this year, but since then I haven’t been feeling it. I hate wearing masks. They don’t work the way we’ve been told they work (seriously, it doesn’t take much research to find credible studies that show they don’t work for the general public, especially in this context) and my glasses fog up frequently when I wear them. I want to limit the amount of mask wearing my kids have to do, as well. They wear them for 5-6 hours a day in school and that’s more than enough.

A trip to Ohio is on the horizon, but of course, one can never be sure they will be allowed into the country, since we all have to take a ridiculous test to be allowed. A test that may or may not be accurate (there are many reasons to believe they are NOT accurate). A test that should not be required. We are going to regret that we’ve allowed the government to have so much power over our lives.

I’m really looking forward to visiting the US this year. I miss my family so much. Even with all this, I’m lucky. I have friends who haven’t seen their families since before all of this ridiculousness started (2 years).

Ohio trip

We did make it into the USA for our holiday trip. Our unnecessary antigen tests were negative (yes, it’s “required” even though the CDC isn’t actually allowed to make federal laws, so don’t let that “it’s federal law” propaganda fool you). It felt like we forgot how to travel. I forgot to fill out the stupid questionnaire you have to take for the Mexico airports, my husband forgot to do the thing with the passports in advance as he normally does, and random stuff like that.

I got randomly searched at the gate, to which I do not consent. Don’t tell me that I consent by traveling –  if you had to have sex with your boss in order to work and you consent, is it really consent? No, it isn’t. Since I’d never experienced this, I didn’t know what was happening and no one even bothered to explain it to me in English or in Spanish. She touched my bra line and my feet. It’s really messed up. It left me feeling violated and upset. It was also well after security to get into the airport’s gate area.

Due to flights being shuffled around, our layover was 6 hours in Houston. The good thing about that is that I saw a lot of traveling dogs.

We arrived in Ohio, relieved as heck. My daughter made an airport guard smile when she ran to her grandpa in a movie-worthy greeting. She greeted her grandmother the same way when we arrived at my in-laws.

It was glorious to spend 10 days be able to breathe freely, without having to wear a mask. We went places and did things as normal people do. Psychologically, it was an adjustment to not worry that someone was going to kick me out of a store or arrest me for not wearing a mask. Can you imagine the damage this is doing to younger minds? Stop being afraid and allow others to live as they see fit.

My family and I rented a cabin in southern Ohio and during that trip, we did a few hikes. It reminded me that Ohio is actually a beautiful and rather underrated state. The final hike we took (age range 8-48 years old) was long, so we opted for the shorter, but harder hike back to our cars. It has some nerve-wracking areas. Thankfully, my kids were walking ahead with their older cousins so I didn’t get anxious about them falling until after the fact when they hadn’t even so much as slipped.

We returned to Mexico on New Year’s Eve and another 5+ hour layover in Houston allowed me to finish two books (one was in progress and the other was started during the trip home) bringing my books read total to 237 for the year. Some were fairly short admittedly, but I also started and stopped a LOT of books that I lost interest in. The book didn’t count, even if I made it to 60 or 70% completed before I got bored.

Everything actually went amazingly well on our trip. I’m so incredibly grateful for that. Even with the relative smoothness, traveling by airplane sucks and it really shouldn’t. I spent the last few minutes of 2021 finishing up that 237th book. At midnight, I turned off my phone and fell asleep listening to the fireworks off in the distance.

In conclusion, this year can suck it

I beg of you to go do some research. Look at actual numbers. Check out real, peer reviewed studies especially regarding masks (and if you still want to wear one after being confronted with these studies, go for it). Check out side effects from the various drugs you want to take. Demand to see the insert that lists all potential side effects. Wonder why drug companies can’t be sued if you are harmed by certain products you’ve been pushed to take recently. Follow the money and see who is benefiting from these drug sales. Start wondering why some drug companies don’t want to release their safety data for 75 years.  Stop complying with mandates that infringe upon your freedom. History shows that they’ll come for you next. Everything can be twisted to be more and more oppressive by a government that knows no restraint. Again, I beg of you to not let it get worse.

Will 2022 be a better year?

That depends on you. You are the smallest minority, the individual. Will you comply or will you resist? Will you shed the fear from the fear porn you’ve been watching for nearly 2 years or will you continue to cower, virtue signal how well you obey, and shame your friends, family, and neighbors? Will you use logic and think for yourself? Or will you do what the news and the government tells you to do even as it becomes more and more ridiculous?

Use your brain to think. Read, read, and read some more. Is the way we’ve had to live since early 2020 really how you want to live your life? Is THIS how you want your children and grandchildren to live? I recommend that everyone adopt this motto for 2022: I will not comply. At the minimum, try and think for yourself. It’s scary and hard to go against what everyone else believes. I have faith that you can do it.

 

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