thank you, universe

There was a long period of time, there, that I wasn't noticing the simple things.  Five years to be exact.  Funny how those five years coincided with the time I spent at my last employer...

It's not surprising.  I spent the last couple years of my 20's and the better part of my 30's feeling sick.  I'm sure all the sordid details of that will come out over time, but the important thing is by 2005/2006 I was feeling good again.  Really good!  Hell, I was looking good, too, which I'm sure also contributed to how good I felt.

I started what will heretofore be known as the SSJ (soul-sucking job) in January of 2006.  I weighed somewhere around 135 lbs, did yoga regularly, walked just about everywhere and felt awesome. 

eating habits

The majority of my adult life was spent in the Northeast.  When I was approached nearly 3 years ago to transfer south, I saw it as an adventure.

Sadly, though, I've spent most of the years here working such abysmal hours that I still haven't really settled in.

I'm changing that.  I had heard about meetup.com years ago but when I was living in Philadelphia and Wilmington, I had such a network of friends that I could usually find someone to go with me to do anything I wanted to do.  Now that I have the time to get out and about

counting my blessings

Cruising one of my new favorite sites (crazysexylife.com) this morning and today's post spoke to me.  Kris describes tackling a challenge then once inking the check mark as accomplished, moving on to the next one without savoring the achievement.  You can read the whole post here if you'd like.  I'm responding to this part:

Notice what ya got soul sister. In fact, do this with me, notice one thing RIGHT NOW. Sit, close your eyes, take a deep breath and acknowledge the one positive thing in your life, something that has shifted towards the light.

Just a few months ago I was in a high stress, high pressure job. 

today I'm healing

It's the first blog post that always trips me up. Say I do this for years and years and years; will anyone ever dig their way back through the muck, back to this first post to see if I said anything profound or prophetic?

I honestly don't know. I've had a few blogs over the years - a few anonymous blogs - and once I've gotten through said anonymous stage in my life, I've taken them down, erased any trace from the web. The longest lasted just over a year.

This one, though...I'm pretty sure this is going to be a keeper.