Enough is Enough

Why do we need the government or the media to tell us how to live our daily life, the last I looked this is still America, our land of freedom. It’s time we all begin to get real about it all.

WHAT COVID19 HAS TAUGHT US…

The jocks and actors are not essential to our survival. And now we should stop paying them more than the people who are the backbone of our country, the essential workers.

The media no longer plays by the rules of journalism, they no longer just report the facts, they just want to report their opinions, even when they are far from the facts. The fake news has been LIES, twisting the truth beyond anything we have ever seen in our lives.

There are too many people who are just followers, not questioning the suggestions put down for our “best interest”. Do we not know what is best for ourselves? WE DO and we will NOT follow these obsessively stupid new ways of life without a fight. After all we are still living in America, land of the free…

We all know what we need to do, we don’t need nor want more laws, rules, or signs to tell us to wash our hands, walk at a distance...blah blah blah...come on folks we can’t be that oblivious and blindly follow behind just because somebody is telling us to do so. We have to start using our own common sense and just do the right thing.

OPEN UP AMERICA…Before most of us have nothing left to live for…

SO many people are dying BECAUSE of the virus, not FROM the virus. Not seeing any hope they are choosing to end their lives, or getting major anxiety that is killing them in other ways…THIS HAS TO STOP!

Yes, people are dying from this virus, but the numbers are so much lower than any other year or virus in the past few years. Yes, it’s a wicked virus, but so were so many other viruses that we contracted and lived through even though there were times we felt near death. Has this really been a major threat to the citizens of the United States, when the survival rate is still in the high 90 percent? Or, has this just been a hyped up Democratic ploy to defame our President of The United States? Our vote is with the latter scenario and we choose to stand up to this and not feed into the media frenzy.

There are too many people hiding behind their screens and saying some outrageous things that we have blocked. We on the other hand stand behind every word we write, we don’t sugar coat, but we also don’t start flinging crap and attacking characters as they continue to do. We are true to who we are and say what we would if they were right in front of us, and understand that we all have our own opinions and leave it at that, to agree to just disagree.

These have been the strangest weeks we have ever encountered, and our lives have been on hold long enough. We are still Jyving, but here in the Phoenix area it’s heating up and we need to find a cooler place to spend our summer. 

All of our work prospects are on hold, even the new ones that we have been interviewing for are not yet ready to hire us due to the situation. We have been paying for our sites at high rates since there are few and far between resorts that are accepting new arrivals, AND we are still paying our dues to our memberships but are unable to use them due to those resorts not accepting new arrivals. WE JUST WANT THIS MADNESS TO END.

We are wise adults and know how to wash our hands, use sanitizer when needed, and we know how to distance ourselves from others, so do we really need to keep everything shutdown? No, let’s start opening up our Country so we can once again live freely and thrive. It feels as if we have lost our nation and it has become one of those other countries where we don’t make our own choices and have lost all our liberties…WE WANT THEM BACK…NOW!

Uncertain Times

Will this ever end and did it really have to happen? 

The debates continue and are still going rapid in our country, all we know is what we feel in our hearts and guts. This has been a media and political experience that has brought out the worse in them, while us, the citizens are paying for dearly. We are losing our livelihoods, while they are still living in their mansions and collecting their paychecks. For them, they might not be able to buy that newest car, or home, or newest toy, but for us without the income coming in, we lose it all, our homes, no food and of course our sanity the longer this goes on.

THEY SAY…

Depending on which news channel or social media you watch, the situation is entirely on opposite sides. Facts or fake news are so distorted that most citizens don’t know which to believe. We have stood strong on only listening to the facts from the few legitimate sources, but we have also found ourselves swept up in the chaos they have created.

Nobody is posting the factual numbers of deaths that are happening in the United States during this all, those numbers have been published for days, but nobody is willing to accept them because they are not disastrous. These numbers are stating that the total death toll in the US through March of 2020 is down from the past 4 years, and this virus has killed less than the flu usually does during this time frame. Has anyone seen these facts go viral in the media? There has not been any posts either on the survival rate of this virus is at 97%, with 396,000 cases reported and reported deaths at 13,000 is outstandingly positive news. So why is this not swarming the media?

Please understand that we are not ignoring all of this, after all we are out in the public stocking shelves and building bikes, so we are taking precautions by washing our hands a lot, plenty of disinfectant, and keeping our distance from others as much as possible. Something we have always done and we are not playing in to all the chaos and drama. We are also very grateful that we are in the state of Arizona where all the drama is not playing out, they are being sensible but not causing a chaotic environment and their numbers are outstanding. 

Whenever we post any good stats, the absolutely rude and obnoxious comments dig so deep that we just end up deleting and blocking them. We don’t have the desire nor strength to continue fighting them off. We just want others to truly understand and STOP saying, we are in this together. We are not, we are all in this in our own way, not like everyone else. Please do not tell us you understand because you are going through it too. Your journey is different, you are not walking in our shoes. You have your own journey and it will not be as easy or as hard as ours will be, it will be totally different. Some of us are able to think of this as a vacation, while others are barely holding on. Everyone needs to reach deep inside and find all the compassion from within so we do not judge others for their choices. We do not know what led them to make that choice, it could be their only way out of a terrible situation. And, just because you would not choose that way, doesn’t mean you are right and they are wrong. We are all doing the best we can with what we have in our personal arsenal to use. Stop judging…stop assuming you have all the right answers…stop thinking everyone is on the same trip as you are…stop condemning others for doing what they need to do to survive this madness. You are not the owner of my destiny or anyone else’s but your own, so stop thinking you are rightfully justified to judge me.

Our summer plans are still up in the air but we are able to continue with our Jyving until something comes up. It is heating up here so we hope it doesn’t take much more time before we find a cooler place to hang out for the summer. We hope you are all doing well through these uncertain times and we are hopeful that this too shall pass.

What a Ride It’s Been...

Time is flying and then again it’s creeping, not sure if that makes sense to you all, but that is exactly how we are feeling…

We left less than a month ago and now we are back in Mesa, safe and sound and wondering WTF happened. We had high hopes and dreams and they are all deflated. Feeling as if life took a turn that nobody could have predicted, but for us it has put us in a tailspin that we need to recover quickly, or we’re going to lose what sanity we have left, which isn’t much.

Driving over 2,000 miles in just a few weeks is not uncommon for us, but this was not planned and every thing in our lives at this moment is up in the air right now, so we are just trying to adjust ourselves and stay focused on all our blessings. We are not alone, many folks lives have been turned upside down, but we have an advantage…having our lives turned upside down and losing it all is NOT a new thing, it happens to us all the time and Jerry and I together will get through this AND come out the other side stronger than ever before.

So, if you’re feeling hopeless or that your life is out of control, please breathe, take some deep breaths and allow all your negativity to release. Talk it out, laugh it out, and if need be, cry it out, please do not allow it to consume you. This too shall pass…it always does. This is the time to work on YOU, to work on all the things that you’ve been putting off, to just be.

That is exactly what we will be doing, and also do some Jyving, because we do need to replenish our funds since this last travel adventure drained what little we had, but as said previously, we will be just fine. We are now adding assembly to our resume with Jyve…this is a perfect opportunity at this time since we put together bikes mostly but also other items at Walmart’s. The assembly is done in the back or in the Garden Center away from customers. We are truly enjoying this part of our Jyving experience.

It feels great to be back in the warmth, but our allergies are totally whacky again, so I will be doing my antihistamine regularly again. The temperatures are still agreeable, so we will just enjoy this for now and not worry about the rest of it because it will all take care of itself.

We hope through these trying times everyone stays focused on the good that is all around us, the media is having a frenzy right now and all their news is about the bad, but we are focused on all the greatness that is coming out of this entire situation. Not just personally but from others kindness and generosity towards others, it’s so heartwarming hearing all the wonderful stories. We shall rise up and become better than we ever imagined was possible because we have faith. Faith in humankind that we will all do what is right during and after these challenging times. 

Life is exactly what we make of it, no matter what cards we are dealt, if we focus on the good and count our blessings then there can be no demons that can destroy us. Life is precious, we have the opportunity to treat it as such by keeping ourselves safe and at a distance from others right now. Social distancing is probably the easiest thing for us at this moment, but we continue to work at stocking shelves and now assembling bikes since currently they are in high demand. But, we are doing it all smart, we have never washed our hands, cleaned with so much bleach, sprayed so much Lysol, used so much hand sanitizer in our entire lives, but if it keeps the danger away then we will continue and we hope others are being safe too.

The challenges continue…they have now shutdown our Thousand Trails memberships from any incoming reservations and we are stuck. We are currently at a park but according to our membership, we have to be out a week then back in for two and that can go on forever, but now if we leave we can’t come back…

We left today and will not be able to return until May 1^st, well at least that is the current plan. We chose to leave because they charge $80+ per night, but because we are Thousand Trail members they will discount it 20%...STILL WAY TOO HIGH for our budget.

On the subject of all this craziness, let us just share our thoughts, and let us confirm that we don’t listen to the media crap, we get ALL our information from the sources. We feel some if not most of this has been blown way out of proportion by the media and the politicians. The numbers don’t lie…through March 2020 there have been less deaths overall in the USA for the past 4 years, AND much less than flu deaths in the same timing. There are so many other stats from the real sources, not the media, not the politicians and not from the NEWS stations that are confirming these stats, but nobody is reporting them…THIS IS NUTS and we just want this all to end!

Everything at this point is up in the air, where we go from here next week, next month, or for the summer. We are just trying to stay sane, not feed into all the drama and enjoy the current moments. We know we will get through this, we just want to get through it now…enough already!