where i’ve been

April 7, 2009

I wish that I had some adventurous stories of where I have been for the past 6 months…6 months really?  It’s been that long?  I guess so.  I would rather talk about the fact that Nate and I won the jackpot, a whopping $7.832 million, quit our jobs, left the country on our 90 foot yacht and ended up here.

Ahh yes.  It was the life.  Living off of island cocktails and fresh lobster every single day.  Jealous?  You should be, it was pretty amazing.

Or maybe…

We packed up our lives in backpacks, including our cat, she had a leash, don’t worry, we didn’t put her in a backpack and trekked through the uncharted territories and wild jungles of South America.  No showers, no make up, no shopping for 6 months.  

But unfortunately neither of those are the truth.  The reality is a lot more boring, way more mundane and a lot less fun than sipping Pina Coladas and licking our buttery lobster covered fingers.  The truth is that I have been doing a lot of “self discovering”.  That sounds so new age, overly spiritual, and borderline sexual, but it’s true (not the sexual part).  I have realized a lot about myself that I have needed to learn, but have been avoiding for a very long time and I haven’t wanted to share with people, even those who are the closest to me.  

So here I am.  The good, the bad, the ugly.  The procrastinator, the avoider, the girl who is afraid to death of failure, the perfectionist, the dreamer, the anxious one, the one with goals, the one full of fear, the laugher and the crier.  Me.

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