Though lets start with the biggest thing so far this year, minus all the changes I feel right now that may have to do with the New Year Glow still not faded away. About four days after my last post I decided to cash in my chips so to speak and change my travel plans for this year, call it impulse action or sappiness brought on by the holidays. Regardless I missed my family too much to want to wait till September to see them. I had enough money saved for Boston to almost book my trip: I was waiting on Friday to show up for pay day to do so when it all changed.
Well it changed before that, but you get the picture. The more I thought about it the more I realized I didn't want to just get away or get a new perspective on life. I missed my family, I missed my home town and as always when winter rolls around I missed the snow.
I talked with my Dad the next day, and after reassuring him that I wasn't coming out of guilt or blowing off my Boston trip (something I really wanted) he said that he'd love to have me come for a visit. I booked my flight that night, and over the next couple weeks of buying things I needed (heavier coat/snow boots etc.) and things I had put off buying because of saving / Christmas Gifts my savings for Boston disappeared.
Christmas and New Years came and went and I kept getting more excited for my trip each day. It was slightly bittersweet on my last day of work prior to trip knowing when I came back a few things would be different and I knew I'd miss being there for sure.
The flights were ok, minus sitting on the wrong side on the way back. Weirdly my sciatic nerve when I sat on it via the way to Denver I had no issue, flying on the other side of the plane the way back not sitting on it about 40 mins. left of the flight I had some issue and stiffness the next day when I "didn't" sit on the side that had been pinched months prior. Go figure that one.
While I didn't do much but hang out at my Dad's with him and my brother and go build a couple snow men (creatures) and see family and see it snow one morning. I loved my trip so much, it was a break from everything I know and while the first night before bed I just wanted to be back home I knew by the time the week ended I would wish I could stay longer. And while I wish it had been a longer trip and miss them now, it was all worth it and just enough for me, for now.
I have been home since about 5pm (California time) on Saturday, and while it feels like I never left there is definitely a difference to my life then there was before last week. While at times I feel like the week didn't even happen, the pictures and my memories remind me every day and make me smile from ear to ear.
Strange to say that while I feel like the world itself hasn't changed, its me living it that has and I don't think that part of me has fully come out yet.
Right now I contemplate on saving for school to start in a years time with at least my AA in something, I haven't thought it all out yet or talked with school counselors to see my plan of attack yet. I also think of saving as much as I can period, but also in chance to still do my Boston trip this year but pushed back few months to our slowest time of the year at work in September. I have put so much thought into that trip before and what I wanted to do and looked at so many places on line and where I wanted to visit and see. My heart still says it needs to go, just to experience what Massachusetts offers.
Part of me wants to save for both: school and that trip, but I'm not entirely sure its possible. Though part of me things that it could be if I did it right. This 2015 seems to hold so much more to offer than I remember any other year before, and like I said it might be because I left on the fourth and never really dug into the New Year in my life that I have so far set up for myself, but ya know what 365 days can say a lot if your willing to explore them.
So here's to the other 350 days left in the year, no matter what I do or don't do lets make the most of them.
