Now at Day 10..... Let's Review!

Day 10 in Boston.... Let's catch you up....

I got here on Tuesday morning, May 1st after taking the red eye flight direct from Seattle to Boston. May 1st... that was going to be the date that I hit the reset button on my life. No, I didn't need super drastic - just a change in scenery... I needed to be able to get somewhere and be the man that I knew that I had become which was different than the man that everyone saw.

I will get back to that.

Within 6 hours of getting into my apartment, I had a parking ticket... within 36 hours, I had two. So by the end of my first week here... I needed to get new insurance, a new drivers license, new license plates and a resident parking sticker... You can imagine how deflating that can be that early on.

My apartment is about 325 square feet of living space - yes it is ridiculously small... and with that comes challenges as well. No drawers in the kitchen, no places for pots and pans... The largest sitting area in the "living room" is 59" wide... and there is no storage... LOL....but I will make it work.... no worries.

My job... I actually think that I will like it... but my commute is a serious problem... today it took me almost 2 hours to get home... However, there is a chance that I may be able to work remotely... Stay tuned for that!

So... in the first 10 days (and THANK GOD that tomorrow is Friday)... I have taken it in the chin a couple of times. But, in the grand scheme of things, I think back and realize that a transition this big makes it very easy to focus on those things that do not go your way. So I am trying to look at those things that are...

So... I have a new home... and in working backwards... next time, maybe I can start to explain why I made that decision... or maybe I can't.

Stay tuned.... Follow Along... I like the idea of getting this all out in writing.

I thought of Cookie when I started this ... I had a blog earlier last year but I stopped writing on it. And I thank my new friend Katie, who also writes the cutest blog here... who reminded me that it might be a good idea just to get things out.

Until Next Time...

 

Chapter 1 - The "NEW" Chapter

Welcome!

So here I sit... in my bedroom, back in Boston, after just over 8 years of being absent.

Tomorrow will be one week since I left my life in Seattle. Seattle, heh, it's still a little odd to think that I don't live there anymore. With Facebook playing such a huge part in everyone's lives it almost at times seems like I am not gone.... but I am.

As this blog matures I will try to uncover things that will help me make sense of the who, what, where, when and how's of it all. I am hoping that by writing this all out - I can make it make sense.

I assume that everyone that "blogs" feels the need to rationalize why they are doing what they are doing. Who am I looking to reach? Is this just cathartic for me? Do I want a reaction? I guess I am just not even really sure.

Here it is. The start of my story. The new chapter of my life.

I will use this brief intro as the appetizer to my "story"... I will take some time and think about direction and what it is that I want to say to everyone - to the world - in hopes that people will read, enjoy, laugh, cry, comment, get mad and most of all learn. If there is one thing that I understand more now than ever before it is that we can all learn from what other's do...

Until next time........