Hello my estranged readers and friends and fellow journeymen! It's been a long time. And a lot has happened. In the space since I last wrote, I took on the beginning of my dream career. In doing so, I discovered that careers are needy, exhilerating things that can suck your entire life into a vacuum if you're not careful. And apparently, I wasn't careful. It was exactly what I wanted, just way too much of it. I went from gardening and dairy cows to driving 3 hours per day and working no less than 10 hours each day. It escalated to us moving to a new town for my job after Jason lost his job and the commute no longer made sense. Now we're selling our house Golden and we've renovated a space in Loveland, CO. I'll give updates about each of these things. Just think of this as a synopsis so you know what's coming!
Jason found work in Fort Collins, we rented the Golden house to amazing people, and I got a promotion. Jason lost his job, my promotion began to eat my entire life and I started working between 60 and 80 hours every week with basically no weekends and no life. Our renters moved to a different state and we were tired of all the work the house requires, particularly with the drive. So we made the choice to put it on the market. Any takers?
After Jason found a new job (an amazing job, might I add), I decided to disembark the career train and find out what life was like in a slightly slower lane as I hone my skills for a more precise career move. So here I am, a few weeks after leaving that train and I am finding that I really like life. It's good.
I'm wrapping up projects around the house, and I'm learning to write again for the love of writing. I am contemplating what I might do for journalism if I could freelance effectively. I'd love to work in Africa as a journalist somehow.
And I just began a juice fast. That's on another blog altogether, but you can find and follow my journey there. This is day 2 of 75, for what it's worth.
For now, I'm writing about travel. I'm starting a garden. And then there's reading, walking, exercising, hiking, and just feeling human. I'm so thankful and blessed that Jason and I balance our lives to allow the freedom for all of this. In return, I want to make the house projects zip by for him so he's less stressed.
I'll do a series of back-log updates and then launch into current stuff!
Jason found work in Fort Collins, we rented the Golden house to amazing people, and I got a promotion. Jason lost his job, my promotion began to eat my entire life and I started working between 60 and 80 hours every week with basically no weekends and no life. Our renters moved to a different state and we were tired of all the work the house requires, particularly with the drive. So we made the choice to put it on the market. Any takers?
After Jason found a new job (an amazing job, might I add), I decided to disembark the career train and find out what life was like in a slightly slower lane as I hone my skills for a more precise career move. So here I am, a few weeks after leaving that train and I am finding that I really like life. It's good.
I'm wrapping up projects around the house, and I'm learning to write again for the love of writing. I am contemplating what I might do for journalism if I could freelance effectively. I'd love to work in Africa as a journalist somehow.
And I just began a juice fast. That's on another blog altogether, but you can find and follow my journey there. This is day 2 of 75, for what it's worth.
For now, I'm writing about travel. I'm starting a garden. And then there's reading, walking, exercising, hiking, and just feeling human. I'm so thankful and blessed that Jason and I balance our lives to allow the freedom for all of this. In return, I want to make the house projects zip by for him so he's less stressed.
I'll do a series of back-log updates and then launch into current stuff!
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