Do over!

Wow, it's been a while since my last post, huh?  I really got around to doing that, didn't I?  The thing is, while it seems like I haven't been busy, I have, just not online, or at least not on my blog.  I have, in fact, pursued awesomeness.  For example, shortly after that post, I took a trip to Florida with my children to see about living there.  I had gone to several cities in Florida on a family vacation as a teenager and loved the city of St. Augustine the most (the other cities were St. Petersburg and Orlando).  On our trip, the only thing we did that was remotely vacationy is go to the beach, and they fell in love with it just like I did.  The rest of the trip was mainly to see about the cost of living there and checking out some motorcycle repair schools that my husband was interested in.

Since the kids were on board, the next step was to put our house in Oklahoma on the market, which we did.  It was ready to sell two weeks before the homebuyer's incentives expired.  We almost sold it during that two weeks, but we were runner up, and it took a while after that because the market slowed down, but we finally did sell our house in November 2010.  Then we moved into a rental while we looked for a home in Florida.  We endured another Oklahoma winter, another blizzard, and during the winter, I treated myself to a mommy makeover, got a breast lift/augmentation and a tummy tuck.  Then in March, my husband and I went to Florida to check out some homes.

We found one that we really liked and put an offer in on it.  It was supposed to be ours in a month, and it took 3 months, but we did get into it and we moved to Florida in June of 2011.  We have been here a year now and we really do like it.  It is such a treat to live just minutes from the ocean, and when I feel overwhelmed or need to be reminded of how small I am in the big scheme of things, a short drive down to the beach can center me quickly.  Our friends and family in Oklahoma say they had the mildest winter ever last year (figures), but we really enjoyed the last year.  We have met some really amazing people, the kids have settled in and my husband started motorcycle repair school in January of this year. 

Now that we have everyone settled, I'm pursuing another area of awesomeness that I had set to the side when I pursued the awesomeness of living where I'd always wanted, and that is my writing career.  It's easy to be overwhelmed by something if you look at where you are and where you want to be.  In hindsight, if I had just kept typing I could have blogged about my surgery or the process of selling my old house or buying my new one and it would have fit into my theme of pursuing what you loved perfectly.  Right now, transcription is still my day job, but pursuing my dreams is something that I'm focused on and I'm taking each day as a learning process.  You can always be a better version of yourself and we are all works in progress.  I can't change my past, but I can learn from it, and I look forward to my future.  Life is too short to spend it wishing you were someone or somewhere else.  Be the best you that you can be RIGHT NOW.