How to Live Life to the Fullest
originated by:Anonymous, James Quirk, Tom Viren, Sondra C (see all)

Life is short. So, live it to the fullest! Enjoy all that it has to offer. Here's how:

1. Seize each day. Live each day as if it's your last. Leave the past behind and do not anticipate the future. Be present to enjoy the moment.

2. Be adventurous. Explore, live on the edge a little and embrace new challenges. Visit new places with your loved ones. Take the road less traveled. Think of life as beautiful.

3. Keep a journal. Record your accomplishments as well as your delights. Take time to reflect on what has been previously written. Be an inspiration to yourself and others.

4. Love yourself. Focus on your inner and outer beauty to see the same in others. Acceptance comes from within.

5. Love everyone. Love the ones who treat you right. Forget about the ones who don't. Life is too precious to be wasted on waiting for love.

6. Accept everyone. Be kind and courteous. Enjoy the company of others. Acknowledge their goodness rather than the differences in their beliefs.

7. Find purpose in life. Be selfless in service to others. Begin with your neighbor. Do charitable service outside of your immediate community as well.

8. Be realistic. Set attainable goals according to your abilities and talents. Consider each effort to be an attainment. Achieve one step before the other towards stability and security.

9. Seek balance. Understand the night and day, back and forth, good and bad in all things. Focus on good thoughts and good things will happen.

10. Maintain control. Be responsible for your actions and inaction. Be true to yourself. Maintain a personal code in the situation at hand. Find common ground.

11. Listen to your heart and soul. Listen for advice, but be confident in making your own decision. Use your instinct.

12. Clear your mind. Rituals of yoga, meditation and tai chi will replenish and rejuvenate your soul to focus more clearly on serenity and happiness.

13. Be carefree. Desires, obsessions and possessions possess you. Free yourself of inhibitions. Make an active decision to have simple daily needs.

14. Laugh. Laughter is the best medicine. It releases endorphins and promotes longevity. Inner joy is beautiful!

15. Be flexible. Accept change as a positive thing in life. At times, go with the flow that is before you.

16. List a few daily goals. Meet a new friend, swim at the lake or walk in the park. Enhance your day and initiate fun!

17. Appreciate the little things. Take a walk around your community to experience the wonder in a way that you have never experienced it before.

18. Forgive yourself and others. Release your negative energy that holds you back, your past failures, embrace whatever life offers you.

19. Anticipate next day. Everyday is unique, like the blossoming clouds.It's never the same, but always beautiful.

20. Accept death. Pondering death brings appreciation to life. Take time to appreciate the expanse and beauty of your life and our earth. Let go peacefully.

21. Appreciate Environment. Take a break occasionally and go for a walk. Assume that you have come from another planet. Take a fresh look at the clouds, the colors of sky at sunset and sunrise. Look at the plants, trees, leaves, flowers and how they sway when wind blows..! Look at water how it shakes and shape itself in the vessel it's stored.. Look at numerous forms of life - insects, animals, birds and human. This exercise will clear off the dead memories and monotony that kills the joy of living.

I never remember to post when life is good, so consider this one of those moments :)

It's been a bit of a long road with recovering from Boston, but I feel life is beginning to get back to normal! Still some bad things that don't seem necessary will happen, but the good things are making a comeback!

It was Amy's birthday last weekend. I asked her what she wanted to do and she said Elitches, so away we went! I haven't been to amusement parks a ton of times, and when I went as a kid I refused to ride roller coasters, so they are still a relatively new thing for me - and I like them! I don't know if I can promise I'd try every one out there, but we did the Minderaser twice, and the 1st was from the very front seat! (The minderaser is the kind where your feet dangle down, which is extra trippy/cool.) That was actually an item on my bucket list I can cross off - a list I haven't actually written down yet, but am considering penning soon. Anyway. A day with her is always fun, but that was a great time together, and it made us plan for more.

With her birthday money from various family, Amy went online to Craigslist and found us some Bronco's tickets for tonight's game! They were less than half price, and they were in the 100 section - by far the closest I've sat at a professional game! Actually, that was only my 3rd Bronco's game, tonights and another of which were preseason games - but it was SO cool! 50 yard line tickets down in the bottom 5 rows (the orange section at Invesco)... that's another bucket list item. Anyway. We were close enough that the camera could zoom in and actually see the ball, and we both took kinda a lot of pictures of the evening. We don't usually do that, it was fun!

Also, this three day weekend = we decided to turn it into 4 = is gonna be EXCELLENT. We have both been struggling to develop ourselves lately, and we have not been getting very quality time together, so we are not seeing or talking to anyone really till Tuesday next week so we can soak up some more of each other - the best source of peace I can think of is time with her, so this is going to be a great 4 days :D We're also going to do some painting, and more decorating and settling in, which will make our little home even better.

There are other things happening in life. Some big breakthroughs are drawing near. I'm finding parts of me that need more change than I had admitted to myself before, so I'll be doing a lot of restructuring in the near future. I am hoping to use this journal as more of an outlet during this time, so maybe you'll be seeing more of me in this sense.

As a direct result of this, my journal will be changing, permanently, to a FRIENDS ONLY zone. I will be locking posts with any sensitive material from now on as well as old posts. If any friends are still reading this do not have a Livejournal, it is free to open an account and you really don't have to do anything to maintain it once you've created one. If you found me thru a friend or group, feel free to friend me too, I have grown immensely through the privilege of reading others private journals, and I'm willing to spread the love.

More soon, I can just feel it.

I've been regaining the ability to be with friends and have fun. Something I'd lost since Boston. I wonder a little if I moved too fast or something though. I'm fighting a downswing the last couple days. I guess a LOT of me doesn't want to admit - mostly to myself - that I have to deal with the depression that runs in my family.

Sounds a bit like I'm not the only one in my circle dealing with this downswing. How much of the world ebbs and flow's at the same time? The loss of 3 major names to old age, sickness and suddenness has definitely affected the world around me. I didn't have any personal investment in any of the 3 who have died, so it makes no sense to be feeling bummery because of that. Though I feel extra bitter about having a childhood where I didn't know who Michael Jackson was until I was 20 years old right now.

I do know of myself that I tend to feel the pain of those around me, whether I necessarily want to or not... maybe that is what is taking it out of me? Who knows. All I DO know is I have a giant yard to go weed and a sweet old lady who seems to think 4 and 5 hours of weeding at a time isn't enough, she's insisting I 'not waste my time' coming for less than 6 hours at a time. But honestly, 5 or 6 hours is about my max of being outside, digging at plants, having allergy attacks galore. Gonna have to try and talk about that with her today, but she's been overly insistent about me not wasting my time coming for fewer than 5 hours... I don't have that much time! I'd so much rather spend the second half of my work day there then devote every single day I get off...

Somebody wish me luck. I need to grow a good attitude, develop allergy resistance, eat breakfast and shower off from the gym before I head over there in twenty minutes

It's true, I'm pretty sure I have a lot of friends who think I've fallen off the face of the earth. Sorry guys. Here's an update at least.

We are in much the same position as we were in Boston, just stuck in the state of CO instead. I haven't been posting because I don't feel like I have anything to talk about. It's tough being stuck at home most days, esp since we are in the FIL's basement. He's a super nice guy, but kinda clingy so we see a LOT of him.

I worked a temp job for what turned out to be close to a month I guess. That's done though. I'm delivering pizzas for 3 hours a night 4 nights a week in a SUPER rural tiny town, but that's not necessarily enough to pay bills and it frustrates me more with each passing day to be out in the middle of nowhere when all I crave are (super tall) buildings and people. We've been stuck in this limbo of wanting so badly for one of us to find a job that will pay a decent amount but it's been six weeks of utterly nothing so last night we had a bit of a chat.

We are both, starting today, beginning to apply for pretty much any job we think we can tolerate. Neither of us wants to be in this state long term, but we can't take being in this house even short term anymore, so we must do something and my poor wife is barely ever able to step foot outside this house because there's nothing for her to go to. We were setting it up so I worked more of whatever came along so she could find 'better' work, since she's the one with the degree. Unfortunately that means she's been stuck in a house with almost no outside contact whether here or in Boston since two weeks after our wedding. That was in September. That is how fuckin A long it takes to find a job in this country right now. I am however very proud and optimistic that with our new awesome president we are at least beginning the long U-turn out of this low point in our country.

Anyway, off we are going, searching for any old thing for us. If anyone has any suggestions about the type of places we should be looking we have open ears. It's too discouraging to not even get phone calls for interviews or anything... We're probly going to drive to Westmins and Thornto (I know the names are shortened, I don't want to be the blog that randomly pops up on any searches since I've left it open to the public) and just look for about any old thing to hand out our resumes to. We did some math last night and even if both of us is working 40 hrs a week for only 8.25 we'll still have more than enough to move out in the next month or two. We HAVE to start working toward it, I'm afraid we're both reaching breaking points.

Something, also, that both of us really really miss is that in Boston we were treated unconditionally as adults. Everyone who met us and learned that we were married and beginning our life together treated us very respectfully and like adults. Ever since we came back here we've been treated like children. I don't know how much is situational, people not used to us being adults, or the way things are in this part of the world, but we get no respect and it sucks. It was awesome to be treated like an adult that could accomplish anything. To come back and not even have that has made this a whole lot harder. It's hard to be seen as an adult when you're still living in family's basement, apparently.


In better news, despite all the turmoil of moving across the country twice and both of us being unemployed or seriously underemplyed since September and being beyond broke since not that long after the wedding.... we are still incredibly happy together and I wouldn't trade my sweet beautiful wife for ANYONE in the world.

Also, we started working out pretty frequently a couple weeks before christmas and that is helping both of us to keep our spirits up. Her dad went and got an eliptical, plus he already had a total gym and a super old school rowing machine. Add some core exercises on the floor and you've got yourself a nice rounded workout :) We are both doing pretty well at keeping it up, and I'm back to drinking a gallon of water each day so we are feeling quite a bit healthier, which is doing some wonders at helping with our moral. The weather has been SO nice the last few days, too, that we've been going for these awesome long walks (like we walk for 2 hours sometimes) and we just get to spend time enjoying each other and soaking in the sunshine. I love her and I'm so thankful that our relationship is stronger than this time of struggle.

I fully anticipate that within 6 months our lives will be better than they have been since even before the wedding, since we lived here ( in the basement) before that too. I bet we'll have our own apartment, maybe even with a gym so we can keep working out. I bet we'll have jobs, even if they aren't stellar amazing high paying jobs, any job would be a blessing at this point. I bet we'll have more positive energy for our friends and I'm sure I won't yet be debt free but hopefully we'll be in a position so we can at least pay the bills and our phone's won't be ringing off the hook from creditors. That will be excellent and I firmly believe it is within our reach.

I can't wait to go back to Boston, it has broken my heart to come back. I am finally a little more over the grieving period I needed, but it will be a hell of an awesome day when we can get back to the east coast, even if it's not that exact city the east coast feeds my soul and makes me a happier man.

Well, that was fun, you could say. It's official, Amy and I are leaving Boston coming back to Colorado. I have a lot of things I could say about why and the ridiculous problems we've come across and how upset I am at this development, but I don't really feel like I have the strength to, at the moment. Maybe I will sometime, but I guess when I'm sitting in a house I hate in a city I love thinking about the one week we have left here I don't feel like going into details.

To think my poor wife was stuck in this very house for like a month and a half while I was working away... of the shitty jobs I've done in the last 2 months - tho the one I wound up with wasn't so bad - being stuck in this house while she's at work is one of the worst.

I feel like a failure, but I've learned a lot. I feel like a deadbeat, even though I worked really hard. I feel like a FUCK for leaving my jobs and our roommates without enough warning. I want nothing more than to stay, but over the last months, for the first time in my life, I have been craving stability. I've never wanted or needed stability until I got married, but it's one of the surprises that has come along with the vows. It's not a bad thing to want stability, I just can't find or create enough here for happiness to exist for us, so it's time to go back to where we know we can find some. I've lived without daily friends a lot of my life, so it's not so bad for me, but for her to not have had a single other female to talk to for the last 2 months was too much. Amy is still my best friend, and nothing is wrong with us, but we can tell we're gonna get sick of each other and we need other people to hang out with, both separately and together.

I'm NOT looking forward to moving back, and the oodles of 'I told you so's' to come, but what is best for our little family right now is to be back where we know some people and where it might not be such hell to find steady jobs for both of us. We did not wait until we were broken to make this decision, but we were individually and together beginning to crack, so here we go, head (only mine I think) held low and back to the state I waited my whole life to burst free from. Maybe later I guess, cuz the universe had made it clear that we are not ready.

I did it. I went to bed early last night (hey, 11:30 is still early for me, and besides, I can't help that when Amy and I crawl into bed at 10:30 it just leads to great sex) Great sex aside, this day was not fun at all.

The roommates got back from the Red Sox game at about midnight. They are both deaf, so when we play pool while they're sleeping they don't care. I care. I am the lightest worst sleeper ever. I am pretty sure i pulled off somewhere between 2 and three hours of really shitty quality sleep before my alarm went off at 4. That's right, 4am. I did everything really well, I got up, got to the bus on time, rode that plus a train and got to the office right at 5:42... only to sit there for an hour.

The situation with this job is it is a temp job. I go each time I WANT to work, and I hope that they have a shift for me. Today they were super low on shifts. I guess I should be greatful for the one I got, but I'm so sore and exhausted that it's hard to be. I finally left the office at 7:15 with a job that started at 11:30, so I came back home and tried to lay down, but I couldn't sleep. I think I finally got about an hour, then my alarm went off again and I did another hour commute. I'm just not sure what I would have done in the middle of Boston for 4 hours in between shifts... preferably apply for jobs, but I had no computer and I didn't have the correct cloths on for the shift. I can't really carry the computer with me for downtimes like that either, because I work with all kinds of shady people and I might wind up with 2 shifts across town from one another and our laptop is super old, slow and heavy.

Anyway, after all that work I had a 4 hour shift. Even though I was told it would be a 5 hour shift. For $8 an hour. I also had close to 4 hours of commuting today. I did so much and after taxes I think I'll have made about 25 bucks. All I want to do with that is cry. We NEED that money. I supposedly have a paycheck coming in the mail, although I was told it was mailed to me 9 days ago and I haven't seen it. The paycheck from Blackjack is good, but it only might be enough to cover rent. How do I get to work? How do we eat? Fuck!

I am so happy to be here, but I'm SO discouraged right now. I can't even process it. My bones hurt because I worked my ass off washing fucking dishes. I know the lady liked me, I may never work for her again and she signed a contract that she can't hire temporary workers on, so what good did it do me?

I need a real job but I hurt and I'm so tired right now that all I want to do is throw up, but we have to get money, even if it's only $25 at a time, so I'll be doing it again tomorrow. Hopefully I'll either get 2 jobs or have some time/energy to apply for something more stable. I know I can do better, but of the shit load of applications I've sent out I've heard back from exactly 2 of them, who at least told me I wasn't right for the position. Dammit. Fuck this economy, fuck this president and fuck working just for one meal.

Perks for the day: Amy is the best wife ever. She woke up early for me and the minute I got off the bus she was standing at the stop to walk me home AND she made me dinner. Also, tomorrow is a new day. Maybe I'll get a better job, even if it's just one of the temp shifts. Hopefully I'll at least get a shift, right? I have a little weed left, maybe I'll really really enjoy the hotdog for dinner, laugh really hard at some family guy and actually get some sleep. Maybe.

I pulled an all nighter night before last. I was so worried about waking up at 4am and getting to my new job. I was sluggish all day yesterday because of it and tried to go to bed nice and early. I set out my shoes, my pants, everything I'd need for the day and went to bed as early as I could stand. I lay there and tossed and turned and I think I finally fell asleep about 11:30 last night. Then at 7:30 this morning Amy sat straight up and said 'baby, it's 7:30, why are you still here?!' That's right everyone, I set my alarm for 4pm, instead of 4am.

I'm quite certain a few of you out there have experienced this problem with me before. IT SUCKS!!! Somehow though, I continue to do it on occasion, sitting straight up in bed far too late to do anything about it the next morning. Blah. The very good news is that this is a temp agency. They don't care whether I actually show up at 5:45am. They care that they fill all their shifts for the day. So when I called they were like 'yeah we're good for the day, see you in the morning.' Which is awesome. But it still sucks, because now I have 22 hours to think about what a tard I am and why I didn't work today and how much tighter it's going to be in a week because I didn't do it right today.

I know it will be fine, I know that in all the situations I could have overslept it's by far the best scenario to do it this way, this time. But now what do I do with my day? I know this for sure: I'm not going back to bed, I still have to get up early tomorrow, and we can't spend any money, because we have no idea when Amy starts working either of her jobs and for some damn reason the paycheck I had sent to me a week ago hasn't arrived yet. Sigh.


It will be a good day. I will find something constructive and free to do. I will not freak out. or get down on myself too badly. I'm determined.

Hello everyone, top of the sunday to you!

I have been floundering a bit this last week, I've never had to look for a job for longer than a day. I'm coming to the realization that the better the job you are searching for, the longer you'll have to look, but there was definitely a few days there where that didn't click with me yet, and I was aiming high enough that I wasn't sure we'd be able to stay here. Amy has two jobs, she's going to be a barista at Starbucks and a swimming lessons instructor at the YMCA, but neither job starts for at least two weeks! That means no paychecks for another month almost! You can see why that stressed me so hard.

Also, of all the jobs we both applied for she had been offered jobs three times and I had not even been called back once. That's a little hard to take for a guy. All I want to do is provide for my family, which isn't too big yet, thankfully, but I was not getting anywhere! I had to realize that 1. she had applied for more jobs than me (I went into more stores, but some of them just had me write my name and phone number on a piece of paper, which I'm sure now that all 4 or 5 of those quickly found their way to the trash) 2. Just because I have more work experience by a little means nothing here. She has a bachelors degree - she could know nothing about the job and be hired over me. She knows a lot though, so of course she'll be hired over me. and 3. I was not consistently putting in apps. I was putting in a bunch one day, then exploring the city or carrying home a new 100 pound dresser for a couple days. Then feeling more discouraged than I should have.

So, I started putting in 3 applications each day (I should probably do more, but some of the applications I've had to fill out have taken over an hour!). I still don't know what I want to do with my life though, so I'm putting in bank applications, applying to be a waiter for fancier restaurants, or working for hotels at this point. I still feel undirected. Some of these have been online, but a fair amount of them want you to fill it out in person so I've had to make the trek.

It turns out that we are about an hour commute from Boston. We are not that far, but we get on a bus, which stops every block or two for about 35 or 40 min depending on traffic. Then we get on a train and take that either to our destination or to another train. Yesterday we did it in an amazing 40 min. The day before it took us 2 FULL HOURS because our bus broke down. I guess we'll see how that goes, because I got a job yesterday!!!!

I am excited because it means we'll be able to stay and maybe even be able to eat, but I'm nervous for a few reasons too. For one thing, it will be that commute to Boston every day. And for quite another it will be that commute to Boston everyday where I'm supposed to get into the office at 5:45am!!!!!!!!!! If you know me personally you might realize that I've not caught up to the time change too well yet - I've got myself getting up regularly at ten now, but I haven't been up any earlier than that yet. Also, I have worked a job for a VERY long time that has kept me up until 5 in the morning WAY more often than anything waking me up at such a time... And I have to not only be awake but arriving by then! I'm gonna have to wake up at like 3:30 in the morning! Maybe I'll enlist someone from Colorado who likes to stay up late to call me and get me up... I think I'm actually just going to pull an all nighter that first day so I'm definitely up, because I don't trust myself to wake up at a time that I've been going to bed more often than not!

God I'm nervous about that. This is a job at a temp agency, and I show up in order to get a job for the day. The good news with that is if I'm late no one will notice or care. The bad news is that if I'm too late I won't get a job that day and I'll just have to schlep my ass back home and think about what I done wrong.

I know someone will want to know, so I'll let you in on it - this position is kitchen work for a catering company. I might get a breakfast, lunch or dinner shift - or I might get a couple if I'm doing well enough. I don't know what they'll have me doing yet, it might be prep work, cooking, or making things pretty on a plate I'm not sure. When I went in I was applying as a waiter or bartender (they get to wear tuxedo's!) but the trainings for those are not for another 3 or 4 weeks, so that just compounds the problem we already have. Since I have a fair amount of kitchen experience (I thought I had some serving experience but he handed me a test and I knew ZERO of the 15 questions cuz it's much much fancier than pizza delivery) they said they could hire me on immediately in the kitchen. So here we go.

This job is not THE solution for me, that's for sure. But hopefully I'll be able to work a lot and get us some checks while Amy gets going on her jobs, and then I can take it a little easier and work 3 or 4 times a week while looking for a more serious and permanent job. BUT IT'S A JOB!!!!

Someone wish me luck, I have the feeling I'm really gonna need it.

Well, here we are, in Boston! We arrived yesterday, after an uneventful flight, got all of our luggage (More than I would have imagined I could carry at once) and waited for our new roommate to come get us.

We had to wait for quite awhile, actually (an hour or so, I think), cuz he got stuck in traffic, which raised the suspense level pretty badly, but overall I'd say we've gotten extremely lucky!

To fill in the background a bit, we've been looking online from CO for about the last two months for a new place to live. FINALLY, a week before we moved, we found TWO places interested in us. I will add, we had a much more difficult time than the average person finding a home because there are two of us. We decided to go with these guys and I can tell already that it was the FAR better option!

The apartment is bigger than I thought it would be. It's pretty old, but I think that's just kinda what you get around here. It seems to be pretty well cared for though, and we have our own room (the biggest one in the house) with some great big windows, which is really pleasant. We got there and set our stuff down and realized we didn't have a bed, dresser, or even any hangers to try and settle in. We were VERY overwhelmed, and if you don't know me personally, it takes a lot to overwhelm me! I sat down with the laptop, which is really slow, (the new computer is on the way, thankfully), and tried to find a good way to Target - we wound up with a lot of giftcards to there from the wedding. The best way I could find was a bus that took us 20 minutes away, connecting to another bus to bring us back - a 45 minute trip for a 2 mile away destination! I became discouraged.

I was confused, so I asked the new roomie that picked us up from the airport (Spencer) what he thought and he had nothing going so thank god he took us to the Target and came back later to pick us up. Even Target was really overwhelming though. We wandered around and found a bunch of things, some of which were pretty big to carry around, so it was extra nice that he drove us there and came back for us. We got a blow up matress - nicer than it sounds actually, it stands about 18 inches off the ground! - and a few other things, so the room is beginning to feel a bit like home.

After Target, the other roommate, Nick, got off work so we went and got him and they took us to a sports bar for dinner. They wanted to stay for the Red Sox game, which started at ten pm (Nick is a more dedicated Red Sox fan than I've ever seen anyone be for any team EVER), but saw that we were dragging hard so they took us home, which was really nice of them.

Once we got home, we played some pool (pool table in the middle of the living room! SCORE!!!), did some Jager Bombs, watched the Red Sox game and smoked a little. I am really glad they had brought us home, cuz I passed out on the couch toward the end of the game. Between the travelling and all we did with them I was SO tired, and while it was still embarassing to fall asleep on the couch I'm really glad it wasn't at the sports bar!

The two of them have really gone out of their way, especially Spencer, to make sure we like it here and that we're comfortable. It's been really nice, and I know we got super lucky to have found them, on Craigslist, none the less!

We're out searching for jobs today, no luck for me so far, but Amy's gonna try a shift tomorrow morning for a few hours at a grocery/deli place. I don't honestly think it will last, but it will be a little money and I can run all over town looking for a new place to work while she's busy.

Stay in touch friends, we miss you already.

This past couple of weeks has been recklessly fast.

I don't even know where to begin, because I would like to expand on each thing, but there's not enough time right now.

Amy's 21, which is finally and awesome and wickedly overdue. We partied on Pearl street and it was awesome.

Our Bachelor/Bachelorette party rocked. I'm glad we didn't split the group up, all of our friends are BOTH of our friends and it was crazy to have so many of them out with us. I didn't buy a single drink and they didn't even let us pay for our meal. It was so kind and fun to have that gathering with all of them.

The wedding was amazing. All the planning was totally worth it. I was a ball of stress on the day of, but it was just because I didn't want anything to go wrong. And it didn't, really. The little issues were easily resolved/ swept under the rug. I so appreciate the friends that made big trips, the friends that were in our bridal party, all of those who helped in any way, and everyone who came. It was wonderful. We both agree - that's the best day of both of our lives. I'm so happy to be her husband and the luckiest man in the land to have Amy as my wife.

The honeymoon was wonderful, but brief. We spent a couple of very relaxing days in Beaver Creek and a day in Central City (we hadn't really been planning on it, but it was a great addition to the trip).

I worked an ASSLOAD of hours this week. I just worked my last shift. For all the gripes I've ever had about that job (not too many, but a few) I had a lot of fun working there and most of my fellow employees are great people.

It's been a somewhat humbling week, as I've had close to half my coworkers tell me one at a time that I will be missed. It bums me out a little that I didn't know what kind of impact I had on the place till I was leaving, but it warms me quite a lot too. To have the GM tell me that the next week is going to be hell for him because I won't be there to help is really kind, and to have him tell me on the way out the door tonight that any time at all that I need a reference, he'll give me a good one... it's really amazing.

I'm feeling super unsettled right now. i think it's because I JUST finished my last shift and I literally don't have a job right now, but the next step is going to be a great big and exciting one. I have faith that whatever happens is as it was supposed to have been, and that it will be a stage of growth, adventure, excitement, and occasionally fear. Overall, I think it will be excellent.

AND we have an apartment for when we get there, just so everyone knows. I'll write more on that later I'm sure.

I have at least ten more things I'd like to write about, but I'm off to go stoned bumper bowling with Katie and Mark. It should be super fun :)

As a side note, this blog will remain active, but as I'm planning to go STEALTH to Boston, I will probably begin another one to keep more people updated on life in general, less relating to transition, etc