So, today marks my first official day of unemployment (barring the weekend) and the very first entry of this blog. It also marks a little over two weeks since my ex and I broke up. In a way, I'm free now. I'm free to plot a new course of action and to set sail for brighter ports. I'm unburdened by second thoughts and longer-than-necessary commutes. I'm able to devote more time to old friends and to begin making new ones.
Five months in a questionable relationship and seven months at an uninspiring job have brought me somewhat out of orbit and I now intend to make things right. And as a list maker, I have delegated the following to work towards:
1) move to the city (either Chicago, Pittsburgh, or DC) wherever I can find work and put my days of suburban exile behind me.
2) exercise more (as in, do the opposite of what I've been doing for a year which is the lack of)
3) go places on my own more often (I miss checking out Sunday afternoon matinees by myself)
4) get myself out of the house more often just for its own sake
5) start cooking more often
6) talk to strangers in public more often (i know this sounds extra creepy, but, I tend to reside on the shy side in public spaces sometimes)
7) resume the projects that I recently left off (beer making, web design self-teaching, guitar/harmonica)
For the past 7 years or so since I moved back from New York City after messing around Jersey City after college graduation, I have been bouncing around Northern Virginia, crashing at home and living in fun, yet undesirable living situations. I have had party crazy roommates that have come with their very own baggages of dramatic insanity. I have lived in a cabin, a party house, a very plain condo, and a fancy townhouse in an uppity neighborhood. I have gone from place to place, not really knowing what I've wanted exactly. In the midst of it all, I have managed to see Europe and some really great parts of the country, feeling like each new place could very well be my next home. And now, having dated somebody who lives in DC, I have brought myself one step closer to knowing what I've always known: I want to live in the city. I want to be able to frequent restaurants and bars and to be able to meet up with friends after work without having a ridiculous commute time. Just give me a subway pass and an affordable apartment and a city job and I will be happy again.
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Awesome man! Hey, since yr new to Blogging this is called a "comment", try it out someday on someone elses....BAM! HAHA, I kid I kid. But seriously, keep up the beer and website making on a daily basis and I think you will be alright.
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