Fully Vaccinated Hug Parties Are Trending And I Want Invited One of the things I missed the most, during the pandemic, was hugging. Everybody knows that I'm a hugger. If you are my good friend, someone I've known forever, or even someone I have just met for the first time, I WILL hug you. Well, that is, before COVID-19 took over our lives and kept us apart for over a year. It just makes me feel good to hug. Even though some people (all my radio husbands: Jon, Dave, and Ryan) act like they don't like my hugs, I always hug them anyway. When social distancing became a new norm, it hurt my heart. Since I use hugging as a greeting, I felt awkward and weird just standing there not knowing what to do. What was really hard was not hugging my dad, my two older kids, my granddaughter to close family and friends. It was so hard.