Whoa, I just stopped to catch my breath for the first time since…I can’t remember. Probably since the beginning of November. I’m pretty sure I turned 31 some time recently, but I guess we’ll never know. Now that I’m nearly two months a newlywed, I can reflect back on what it took to get married, …
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Hello Goodbye
The past four months or so have led me here. Here to our new house, my mom to her new one-bedroom apartment, which she loves, and to me quitting my job of four years and making another career change. And time marches on. M’s house sold in one day but it proved much more difficult …
Passed-Present-Future
It’s been a week. Since starting full-time again at the hospital I feel like the longer hours have left little time for anything else during the week. Those four packed days consist of pretty much the exact same routine, where if I can squeeze in a quick workout and an episodes of Scrubs it’s been …
Touching Base
It’s nice to touch base. This blog, for instance, is a nice pause in an otherwise bustling week. I’m at my mom’s house in Lake Mary which feels really relaxing to me. Mom has donated, sold or thrown away nearly 30+ years of stuff. It’s hard on all of us, but I home it’s also cleansing and …
Holy Chalupas!
Two separate times this week I’ve been asked “Whoa, are you ok?” and “Had a rough morning?” Ok, work has been stressful lately, lots of patients in the ICU, very physically demanding work while at the same time mentally and creatively unsatisfying; not to mention, the hospital has been overcapacity for a couple of weeks now. This …
Moving Forward
Small metal hooks nailed into the walls still remained. “Just one more picture,” I said instructing my brother in taking the artwork down- artwork that had been there for nearly thirty years. I was slightly disappointed by the lack of comical white rectangles where the pictures were, as if the wall color around it had …
Road Trip in Review. Coming soon.
Road Trip – Day 2
What was going to be a shorter drive turned into a longer one than yesterday. With nothing very exciting on my route today, I decided that putting in some extra miles will set me up for more time in Denver tomorrow. I didn’t realize that I’d be in five different states today (Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, …
Snow in Florida
Cousin Charlotte, brother Adam and me in Jacksonville, FL 1989 In case you didn’t know, it snowed in Florida! Not recently, but on December 24, 1989. My family was visiting the cousins in Jacksonville when, on Christmas eve, the unthinkable happened. Unsatisfied with the “flurry,” my dad, on a whim, said, “We’re driving north until we see …
Dirtbag Dreamers
There has been a trend sweeping the nation. Perhaps this is aided by Instagram and other social media, but young people are retiring to the road and I can’t figure out how this is happening. Honestly, it’s likely my own jealousy that is influencing me to ask these questions. From what I’ve gathered, these very …
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