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first of june, hooray!

i love the first days of months. so cheery and optimistic ~ who knows what the month will bring! we have been in bolivia for forty days and though there’s been moments of omgi’mlivinginbolvia and wtfamidoingwithoutajob, it’s been amazing. i’ve had twinges of missing u.s. stuff and i’m absolutely positive that won’t go away (especially california pizza kitchen’s carmelized pear and gorgonzola pizza. just writing the words made me drool just a teeny bit. i have a recipe but it does you no good when you can’t find gorgonzola. yet. oh and i miss my nieces and nephews. and.. oh and a lot of stuff, i’ll shut up already or else i’ll get all sighy.)

but! i am so glad to be here and every so often i’m filled with this feeling of wow lucky lucky andrea, how in the world did you swing this?? i remember how years ago i realized there was this feeling i’d get now and then, a feeling i ended up calling “being on the right path.”

i’d had that feeling for years – that’s what i felt about being an exchange student in high school and living in palermo, italy for six months, that’s how i felt about going to bryn mawr (totally random casual decision – i just liked the turrets in some of the campus architecture. plus they had flags flying the day i visited! the sci-fi/fantasy girl in me could not resist turrets with flags.)….

after the first few years in los angeles, i think, for a long time, i didn’t feel it that much at all (except for library school – that was a wow, of course i’m a librarian. ;) moving back to maryland, for those of you have been reading for a long time (thank you!) know already, wasn’t that feeling of being on the right path at all, it was more like i was stuck between a rock and a hard place, so, i chose the hard place. or rock? whatever. it was tough. and then my dad getting sick and then dying. it was a hard time! to say the least.

and now, now.. i just feel like i’m back on that path. (knocking on wood, knocking on wood.) and oh my gosh has it been long enough! not that i haven’t done and learned a lot in the past however-long-it’s-been years, i sure have and i don’t regret it. too much. but i’m so glad to be here now. here is tough in it’s own ways too, but i love it.

the end.

….ok ok, super cheesy writing, i should just write a self-help book or something, right? my memoirs. haha! but with that said and out of the way, i can go back to normal stuff. like showing you all pics of the apartment! and pics of bolivia itself! it’s amazing here. i loved it as a kid, visiting here every few years for the summer or christmas, but now…?? it’s even better than i thought.

so, let me just hit ‘publish’ for this little post and then i can get back to feeling all normal about mellowtrouble and not like oh my gosh, it’s so out of loop from where i am, what i’m feeling, what’s occupying my brain – you know what i mean, i suspect. a big hello to you from gorgeous la paz, bolivia! happy june ~ ~

{ posted 1 June 10, under moving to bolivia & more me }

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