Not that anyone has been particularly impacted in a negative way by my radio silence but, hey there. Okay, so I tend to get super private when I'm stressed, which I was when I first moved as I was trying to adjust, find a job, keep my job, etc. Then all that worked out fine and I now have a great job that affords no down time at all and a life that is getting full up pretty fast and then approximately 1,274 house guests et voila. No blogging mojo.
BUT things are going great. There has been the occasional snafu, such as having my car totaled and the months of financial toilet flushing that produced but the long and short is I live in a cute apartment with a great roommate and I go to the beach every week and spend the rest of my time at a job I enjoy. My dog is perpetually in obedience school, which is hilarious and very necessary as the freedom and excitement provided by the dog park and the dog beach have caused her to lose her tiny, walnut sized mind.
I was super pumped about this starfish, yo
I miss Arkansas exactly as much as I expected which is quite a lot. I miss my friends and I miss my family and my God do I miss the country. San Diego is a lovely, clean, smog free city but it is crowded and I miss being able to drive for five minutes and be in the lush, Arkansas mountains. But this is where I need to be, no doubt. In the four months I've been here, I've gone to more concerts, events, bars and parties than I would have in a year back in Little Rock. I was not able to do that for myself back home, for reasons too complicated and personal to bore you with in this venue but reasons that did not have as much to do with Arkansas as myself. But I am finally thriving and feeling more myself. God, finally....
