Healthy Habits!

I started this blog back in October, hoping to fill a void in my life with more communication, more reflection, and throwing words out into the great beyond and assuming no one would ever read it. Six months later, I'm in a completely different place. That void is gone, but I am on some new adventures that I would dearly love to talk about and reflect on.

1) I left my job as an analyst working in the Financial District of San Francisco. It was a perfectly suitable job, stable, good benefits, good coworkers, and left me feeling completely empty. After being offered a raise less than current inflation, so my new salary was still about $15k less than I feel I am worth, I started looking. I found an opening at a private school for a physics teacher. The contract isn't guaranteed for next year, so I am taking a MAJOR gamble, but teaching is my heart, my soul, my passion. I leaped at the chance and haven't looked back. I should find out within two weeks whether or not I'll be teaching there next year, so I am excited.

2) I am engaged to my life, my love, my dearest friend. We will be married this fall in the foothills of the Santa Cruz mountains. Wedding planning is whoa damn more complicated and difficult than I had any idea it would be. We both wanted a small, immediate family only, ~25 person affair. That lasted right up until his giant Jewish family got involved and demanded that "immediate family" include everyone. So, we changed plans completely and are having a 150 person potluck dance party. Should be a hoot, but gonna take a lot of work!

3)  I am on a mission to get healthier. I am not on a mission to be any particular size by my wedding. I am who I am, and what will be, will be. I want to be stronger, faster, leaner, and build good habits. My most fabulous coach is helping me get there. I've been working on this since September, but things just kept happening, and I kept telling myself, "After THIS giant crisis, everything will be easier!" I was wrong. It's not easier, and it's not going to change if I don't change it NOW. So, now it is. I'm struggling with this one mightily. 

4) I'm moving in two weeks to an apartment. My Husband Elect and I will be living by ourselves in a tiny studio with no roommates. Just today we spent all afternoon completely cleaning out the garage (filled with things from five roommates and a few people who don't even live here), pulling everything out, organizing it, and beginning the process of staging the things we want and donating the things we don't. This is probably going to be the least interesting portion of this blog, but it's a big thing right now and for the next six weeks, at least.

I'm sure more major things will come up, as they always do. I will post my trials, tribulations, experiments, setbacks, epic failures, fabulous successes, and everything in between. I've tried starting this thing a couple times, and it hasn't stuck yet, but I really do want to record my thoughts again. It's all about creating healthy habits, and that is the goal.