how'd my heart become my enemy?
June 1, 2015 (月)
Q: One a scale of one to ten, how healthy are you?
A: Probably around a 6. I'm not terrible, but I do have some ongoing health concerns
June 2, 2015 (火)
Q: Should you trust your instincts?
A: Not when surfing blind on eHarmony. D'oh!
June 3, 2015 (水)
Q: Who do you miss the most right now?
A: My parents. I miss nights just hanging out, watching our favorite shows and talking.
June 4, 2015 (木)
Q: Today you wore _________.
A: My light blue jeans (the low-rise ones I have to wear a long shirt with in order to avoid flashing crack) and my DFTBA (Nerdfighter, Don't Forget to Be Awesome) shirt.
June 5, 2015 (金)
Q: What was the last fruit you ate?
A: Ba - well, raspberries. Because I had raspberry pie. Noms. Otherwise, a banana.
June 6, 2014 (土)
Q: Which family member are you closest to?
A: Geographically, my grandmother.
June 7, 2014 (日)
Q: What do you feel grateful for today?
A: My memory and patience for those whose memory is not as good as it used to be.
June 8, 2015 (月)
Q: What makes you miserable?
A: Same as last year. "Hypochondria, especially late night hypochondria...") Any kind of physical ailment.
June 9, 2015 (火)
Q: What makes a good friend?
A: Someone who can enjoy the silence.
June 10, 2015 (水)
Q: How many cups of coffee did you drink today?
A: Always the same - 4 according to the coffee pot. (One travel mug full.)
June 11, 2015 (木)
Q: What is your favorite thing to do on a Friday night?
A: Plan my weekend. :)
June 12, 2015 (金)
Q: Is something in your way? Can you move it?
A: I don't know if anything is ever truly in my way. Also, hard to know of any obstacles when you don't know where you're going anyway. Ha!
June 13, 2015 (土)
Q: Something that made you worry today ___________.
A: How much a year $10/hr turns out to be. Before taxes: $20,800. Ouch...
June 14, 2015 (日)
Q: Did you exercise today?
A: Yes. Vacuumed the house (stairs are hard) and walked downtown.
June 15, 2015 (月)
Q: What's your favorite gadget?
A: My Kindle. It's lovely.
Random Ramble:
When I first got into this new career, one of the reasons I chose it was because it would allow me to get a job in pretty much any country I chose. At the time, I was coming back to the U.S. after living in Japan for four years. I hadn't really wanted to return to the U.S. Leaving Japan, I hugged my best Japanese friend and broke down crying - because leaving had the terribly sad feeling of permanency. Back in the U.S., I vowed to try to get a job in Europe (I loved Japan, but their working life is messed up - no way do I want to be a slave to the job!) after I finished my degree. I didn't like the idea of remaining in the U.S. for long. (Because of this, I ended up only getting a $10 flip phone and a no-contract, pre-pay service for my cell phone so that I wouldn't have to pay a fine if I wanted to get out of a contract. I still have that damn flip phone. I'm oddly attached to it even though it doesn't even ring half the time.)
I was living with my parents during school and I didn't realize it before I had to start looking for jobs, but I had grown to like living in small town America. I enjoyed the slow-paced, simple but rich life of living with Mom and Dad. When I started looking for jobs, I didn't even look further than a 5- or 6-hour drive from home. For the first time in a long time, I didn't feel like running - I felt like staying and putting down roots.
Now I'm in a different small city and while I do want to put down roots, I'm not sure that I want them to be here. What I do know is that I want them to be near to my family and friends that I have realized are more important than the daily adventures of living abroad.
As I was reading the
biography of
Robert "Believe It or Not" Ripley, one quote of his struck me as appropriate for this very feeling of not wanting to leave this area: "Why any one place should forever hold enchantment for the reason you are born there is a mystery. But like cats and birds we are pussy-footed and pigeon-toed and our footsteps lead toward home...The Eskimo longs for his northern bleakness and his ice hut, the cowboy dreams of the wide open towns and prairies of the west, the old salt is looking out to sea...and down in the hold of many ships are dead Chinamen's bones going home to China."
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