Hey, it's time for my regular 3-year check in! So, a lot has happened since 2019. Long story short, I left a really toxic work environment and landed a sweet job at the end of 2019. I was also planning a Spring 2020 trip to Japan, booked flights and places to stay in early January. Things were on the up and up. Then the pandemic happened :cries: Luckily, both me and my partner were able to keep our jobs, we're both a little (a lot) anti-social so not going out wasn't a huge inconvenience, and everyone in our lives took COVID very seriously. Then the world fell apart. I actually started a journal entry in June 2020, but I think I was just so sad and overwhelmed, I never had the heart to finish. In the past couple of years, I have really started to enjoy and appreciate botanical gardens. I've always liked going to parks and gardens, but since the outdoors were the only relatively safe place from COVID, we tried to make the most out of Spring by going to every botanical garden in our