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There&#8217;s been enough negativity about last year on FB &#8212; between the pandemic&#8230; friends being put on furlough at work.. having to cancel all and any vacation plans&#8230; a very blurred line between the work\/life balance, with no clear break&#8230; then going into this year, expecting a peaceful transition of power &#8212; instead we get a pouty ex-girlfriend that just wont accept that it&#8217;s over&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pandemic has claimed many lives and business victims.  I don&#8217;t understand how the stock market can do so well&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Happy+Craptastic+New+Year%21\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?p=597\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! 2020 was a craptastic year; this one doesn&#8217;t seem to be much better. When I started this post, I was going to be optimistic or thoughtful about the previous year. There&#8217;s been enough negativity about last year on FB &#8212; between the pandemic&#8230; friends being put on furlough at work.. having to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?p=597\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Craptastic New Year!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mouse-network.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_3417-scaled.jpg?fit=1920%2C2560&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YMpv-9D","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":467,"url":"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?p=467","url_meta":{"origin":597,"position":0},"title":"Oh! 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