Mike and Ploy

One month from now will mark the 3-year date for the start of my Northern California journey – which officially started at Stanford on Pearl’s Birthday (August 10, 2007), if you don’t count the weekend trips to scope out living situations, interviews, etc. It’s quite amazing how fast the time flies – I’ve come from living in a 1-room in-law, to renting a house, to moving back into a 2-room in-law!

I’ve also realized that, with my bumbling brain trying to find vast ways of escape, blogging would be a very healthy remedy for the time being (on top of getting my thoughts across to my newest “housemate” that happens to be the mister in my life)!

In any case, for those who have been out of the loop for a while, after working at Stanford for a year, I moved to UCSF for 6 months, laid-off for 6 months, got proposed to somewhere in between all that nonsense, got married 6 months later, and started working at Alma Heights Christian (and have now been at it for 1 year)!!! Not to mention, hubby getting a new job in the middle of it all, moving a couple of times (getting family moved up here), health issues, and still trying to keep sane in my marriage – which has lasted 1 year, 3.25 months and counting… Oh, did I mention, I’m doing my MA at the same time and trying to pick up new hobbies while volunteering, trying to connect with old friends (all while making new ones), and trying to spend time with our church folks?!

Okay… no wonder I’m slightly delusional!! Yet, overall, I’m finally content (kind of… getting there) and feels like I’m being “placed” where I belong (again, still getting there). I have to admit that it’s hard at times to be displaced from somewhere you considered “home” your whole life, leave friends and family behind, and start over again. Yes, yes… many of you may think it’s been three whole years almost, so get over it… but three years is nothing compared the realities of your whole life (just think of your college years, or high school years… doesn’t seem all that significant in terms of time does it?)…

I guess the funny part of it all is the realization that everything changes, and with it, we all change to some degree as well…