Day 426 - 428: Movin' on up

Day II.61 (426): Wednesday, August 15, 2012

 

“Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.”
-W.H. Sheldon

 

Also referred to as "owning it." Seems an easy thing to say, but can be a bit rougher to do.

I am owning my choices, owning my somewhat nonlinear path. Thank god for all of it. And jumping in, fully, to the gorgeous journey ahead. Chicago, life, love, the PhD, world: let's do this thing!

 

Day II.62 (427): Thursday, August 16, 2012 

I heard last week a great piece of advice: Figure out what makes you happy, and learn how to ask for it. 

 

Again: so simple. But so big!

 

Tonight while doing the Culver City stairs, two great things happened. First, I lapped a couple of guys, who gave me fist-bumps as I started on my fourth round. One said, "Girl you're a badass!" when I answered their question, "How many is that?" Why, thank you.

 

Second, as I was coming down I realized something by tripping over my own feet. See, the stairs are so steep, and let's be honest, they're a little uneven (think Hundertwasserian lines) that you have to keep eyes on them at all times. But if you stop - and look up - you see the whole city and the range of the Santa Monicas and the Hollywood Hills and the Sierra Nevadas in front of you. It's breathtaking. But you can't enjoy the view, and the longshot, and the seeing where you've come, while moving. You have to stop moving - take a pause - breathe - look up. And then when it's time to get moving again, you put your head down and focus on the next stair ahead of you.

 

Day II.63 (428): Friday, August 17, 2012

I have been counting down to this day for 17 insanely long days. I am so grateful and excited and have so many things to enjoy coming down the pike!

 

Day 56: Vehicular progress

Today I'm grateful that things are moving forward and falling into place, and I've finally managed to definitively cross some moving prep things off my list, including the car.

After I registered it last week, I discovered I had 10 days to get my new baby inspected. Given my Florida & California travel (rough life, I know), my ten day allotment shrunk to a meager 4 potential days! I got the car inspected yesterday morning, and passed! Hooray for having all the requisite stickers to legally drive my baby in NYC!

I'm glad I didn't wait to buy a car - had I bought something the weekend of the 20th, I would have been slammed getting these technicalities checked off, what with finishing work, Diane and my mom coming, and packing out my apartment. So I am grateful for a sense of completion, in one of the columns on my moving spreadsheet to-do list.

And I have faith the other columns will, ever so slowly, get checked off too.