Time for my weekly call with Daddy! We missed last week but this week has been awful so I'm determined to check in.

Soon I'll get to see him for Thanksgiving - sister and I are planning on cooking :)

Well, it was a good call, but now I get to grapple with the possibility of them moving to Europe in the next couple years.

Yes, election-related. I don't know if they realize how difficult it is to emigrate, but his wife is stubborn as hell, so she might be able to make it happen. (I say that lovingly.)

I don't think it's in the cards for me to follow suit (or even to visit, really, with the cost of traveling that far), thus the needing to grapple with the possibility.

Waiting and seeing.

With all likelihood, their plans will change; such is the nature of plans. No need to get too far ahead of myself.

Just... feeling world-weary and vulnerable to the winds of change blowing around me.

My primary method of steadying anxiety is to find something I can control or directly impact that's adjacent to what I'm anxious about and throwing myself into that.

Easier said than done, sometimes.

What can I really do? Prepare for tariffs, try to keep my job, try to encourage my partner to find a job... strengthen interpersonal irl relationships that I've let slip (that is, reinforce my network and safety net).

I need to get back into yoga, meditation. I'm taking my meds, at least.