February Went Hella Crazy on Me

I may have unintentionally taunted the universe when I said in my previous post that my February would just be ordinary.

That’s coming from someone who forgot that February is not just about Valentine’s day and even singles like yours truly can have one hell of a time.

Let me start off with how the second month of 2021 was like for me.

Obviously, I did a lot of reminiscing. Two years ago at around this time, I went to Thailand with my ex, and we had an amazing time.

One year ago at around this same time, we had broken up but he made plans to see me to try and fix things. That never happened because of the pandemic.

While I admit that I harbored hope for a long long time that we would get back together, I eventually got tired and stopped counting on it.

You know when you’re with someone you love and you miss them when they’re not around?

It always bothered me that I never got a random I miss you in our 2-year relationship except as a respectful reply when I say it first.

In all those time, I never knew where I stood in his life as well and despite the things he did for me, I never felt like he would stick around or that he'd got my back when shit hits the fan.

Instead of the super cliche “I’ll be with you forever” or “I don't want to lose you”, I got the total opposite with our relationship. Fuck reassurance or commitment or anything like that. In fact, he actually said he couldn't tell me that he would stay because we never know would happen “in the future”.

LOL talk about being unfortunate.

Anyhoo, I’m getting off track. Back to my February - it started normal enough.

I’m back home and Valentine’s day is non-existent here (no one cares) so I had my hair done instead - probably the most action I had since I went back to Moalboal.

Barely two days after VDay, shit started going crazy at work.

If there’s anyone reading this right now who has no idea what I do, I’m a copywriter for a local crypto exchange.

I write all the stuff you see on our social media page, all the articles on our Help Center and Medium publishing, almost all the content on our website (others I had to leave alone because of management decision lol), all the advisories and newsletters sent via email, and in a lot of instances, customer support emails that tackles complicated issues.

As someone who has been working in the space for almost three years now, I can definitely say that crypto, for all its worth, is still controversial in a lot of aspects.

So it doesn’t help that last Tuesday, there was an incident on our exchange that prompted us to go on maintenance mode immediately - unscheduled, unplanned, and unannounced.

Things got worse for us when our maintenance got extended to more than a day, which means our users could not access their wallet or trade. The crypto market at this time has been very active as well so that really agitated the issue even further.

With the crypto market so volatile, it was not a surprise to get a lot of bashers accusing us of a lot of things like we’re a scam, we’re manipulating things, etc. because they couldn’t log in to their accounts and take advantage of the market.

I know this is self-serving but coming from someone who has direct info about what happened, trust me - there was no monkey business going on.

We had a glitch and it caused a domino effect, fueled by people online who were very quick to assume the worst. I couldn't blame them but it didn't make the situation easier.

A week on, we have unlocked most of the affected accounts but we are definitely still reeling from what happened.

Just today, I had to wake up at 3:00 AM because I had to finish some urgent things for work and ended up working until 11:30 PM.

Our recent incident also made it to Cointelegraph - the world's leading crypto news website - so things have been kind of a circus between sending out the right comms, squashing fake news, pacifying irate clients, etc.

Between the media frenzy over what happened to the negative sentiments against us on social media comments, it has been a daunting two weeks.

If there's one thing I can say about all of this, it's that yes, this is a shitty thing to go through as a company but I'm still thankful for everything. As an employee, it can get super exhausting, but I'm glad to go through this kind of issue with the kind of people we have now.

Also, I love our company. We still have a lot to work on but it's my first startup and I want to see it succeed and reach its potential. LOL. Call me workaholic but if that means several sleepless nights so that I can help out, so be it.

Work aside, my brother is getting better and hd can walk now without crutches so that's another thing I'm very thankful about. He has also started crypto-trading and now sees its potential so woohoo.

On another note, my mom started giving away our puppies (we have 6) to their new furever homes and honestly, that makes me sad. I know we couldn’t keep them because we already have a lot of rescued dogs but it still breaks my heart. My mom said she knows the people who got the two puppies and they are really good. Even with that, I still worry and hope to high heavens they are in good hands.

I don't want to admit it but I have gotten attached to them when I shouldn't. 💔😞

That aside, I have also started doing resin craft but mostly just created bookmarks. I've tried other things like ref magnets but not that satisfied with them. I need to get other molds to create other stuff so that will take a while.

Lastly, a crypto company interviewed me, which I’m going to talk about in another posts.

For now, I just want to sleep. Good night.