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Date: March 21, 2005, 4:19 am CST - Subscribe
Mood: mellow
Music of the Moment: Give me one Day -- Chris Isaak (Radio Paradise)

 It's has been an eventful few months since I last posted. I've been working things out with my dad, for one. So when I mentioned that I was still looking for work as well as looking for an apartment of my own he invited me to join him in the inland northwest. After some thought and deliberation I got my stuff together, finished my EMT basic class, took my test, and packed up. After a very nice goodbye pizza supper with some of my closest friends (including my sister and her family) I set out for a cross country drive.

I left on a Monday and stayed a couple of days with another friends, then it was hotels and open road for the next few days. Finally arriving at my destination on the following Saturday. It was a nice drive across the top of the country, with a brief sojourn into Canada. Just me, my thoughts, and my music.

So now I'm settling in. It's odd being back in a city I haven't been to in over 10 years (we left when I was 11). I look around and it seems so foreign. Then for a second I'll see something familiar, and then it's gone. On top of that it's different looking at the place with adult eyes. I was just a kid the last time I was here.

Slowly I'm settling in, and things are starting to feel a little less surreal. Moving is never terribly easy, and despite my long familiarity with the process I still find it hard. I miss my friends. It's harder to connect when there is a three hour time difference.

It always takes about a year to really get settled into a place, and that year can be a real bitch. I'm hoping for a lot of things: a job, some new friends, an apartment. As hard as it is for me I remain optomistic. I'm feeling a lot better physically and mentally (though some days are still hard).

In many ways it's just another bend in the road (to use a tired cliche), and I'm looking forward to see what's around the next corner. And on the upside my car has had no offroad misadventures lately.

Bright blessings, safe journeys, and good laughs.
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anonymous - March 30th, 2005
Hey, Beautiful! Glad to hear you're settling in. Any chance you're available to do the Yahoo chat thing sometime- evenings are great for me. Hope you continue to do well. Blessings abound,
Epeemom

anonymous - March 31st, 2005
Hiya! Thanks for the note. I think I could arrange to be online and available for yahoo chat sometime. Maybe tomorrow evening? I found a job, and get home around 4:00 here (so around 7:00 there). I'll be online (and logged on to yahoo! messenger) around 5:00 (8:00 your time). So I'll see if I can catch you then. Take care. Bright blessings, PhoenixGrrl.
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