Success

I feel like I finally have TIME again. It is an odd feeling, but so wonderful!

Melissa and I are doing workshop with CASA (capitol area school for the arts) students this month and it has been great just sitting back and talking with these high schoolers. They make me think about my career and my path and they make me realize how different all of our paths are. Today I heard one of my favorite quotes again, We all have our own definition of success. I feel like finally I am able to sit back and see how MY definition has changed in the past 2 years. It has changed completely. But I think it has changed into something that I have finally chosen. I realized this morning that this move to MPLS is the first move I have CHOSEN to make. The first move I have decided on. It is a crazy feeling. It is scary as well, going into a new city without a job, but I am so confident that this is the right decision. We all have different paths and it is not up to us to judge, it is up to us to support. Support those who are doing what their heart wants and support those who are following THEIR definition of success.

Saturday night? What is that?

So for the first time in AGES I am home, on the couch, on a Saturday night. It is amazing!

So here are the newest Minni-apple Move updates:

Mike flies out of HBG on May 2nd for a face to face interview on the 3rd. He will be there all day getting a huge tour and meeting people. He had to fill out a HUGE personality/math test... sounds like fun huh? I am just PRAYING this goes through.

Before then I need to buy him a new shirt and tie combo.... he needs help.

AND...

I think we need a POD. Those huge metal boxes that you pack up and they move your stuff for you. But all I know about these PODS are just that, metal boxes and they move them... we need more info.

Also.... who wants to paint our walls?! I sure don't. Yuck.

On The Move

So since the big move to Minneapolis is coming I thought I was try to dedicate the blog to the joys, stumbles, lessons, and hurdles that a big move brings! So here we go.

Never have I made a move like this as a "big kid". All I have done up until now is pack up all of my stuff in my car with the promise of a contract and go.... this time it is different. There is so much to think about. And this time around I have STUFF! Well, WE have stuff. Mike and I have a life together and we are packin er up and movin er out... there is a whole LOT to think about.

We know we can't move until Mike finds a job because no matter HOW much I make it will NEVER be as much as him, so he is the bread winner... I am the bread eater, so it all works out. He has an exciting possibility on his plate right now. A face to face fly out to MPLS is in 2 weeks. So that is SOOOOO exciting!!!! We are not pinning all of our hopes on this one AWESOME job but my GOD, he might have a KILLER job in less than a MONTH! Ahhhh!

Ok so now we are thinking about homes, condos, cardboard boxes etc. We think that we need a real estate agent because we think we want/need/can afford a condo. But I still feel like I am 12 and how can a 12 year old hire a real estate agent?!

And then, do we hire a moving company? Do we rent U Hauls? PA-LEAZE!!!! What the heck! And then... we have 2 cats.... who are both kind of crazy, how do we move them.

SOOOOO, stay tuned blog lovers.... HERE..... WE.....GO!!!!!

Not Yet Dead....

So it had been since November. Wow. My blogging skills are NOT top notch. So here is a breakdown of the top stories in my life since November:

-Richard III was a huge hit and a joy to be in

-I chopped my hair off, it was traumatic and the girl who did it must have picked up scissors for the FIRST time that day.... I found a different stylist at SASS SALON in Mechanicsburg (Lauren, love her) and she has fixed me and I fell in love with her.

-Christmas was great! Mike and I's first Christmas together, it was sweet. Christmas eve Dakota inhaled cat nip and hacked like a 65 year old smoker for DAYS. We learned that some cats can't handle cat nip... good to know our cat is one of them.

-New Years events were insane once again, MAN I am I glad I will never have to do that again.

-Went to SD for my January break. Went to the dentist for a teeth cleaning, did I mention that this dentist was a close friend from HS.... awkward. Anywho not ONLY did I have a cavity but she said I had to get my wisdom teeth taken out ASAP. that meant the next day. So that day I had a cavity filled, and the next day I had three wisdom teeth removed. I only had three, I am an evolved human. Spent the rest of my break on the couch and snowed in my 3 feet of snow. Thank goodness for my mom.

-Came back to HBG to kick off Snow White

-I was not in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare so I could spend time focusing on Snow.

-February-day after yesterday: life consumed with Snow White. Some things happened in between there.... like, Mike and I decided to move to Minneapolis Minnesota in August, Dakota got diagnosed with bladder crystals which makes her pee wherever she darn well pleases, Went to New Hampshire for Easter, Drove in Mid Town NYC and survived, Saw Carolyn for the first time in YEARS, She is getting married, My friend Katie is pregnant, Planned a trip to MPLS for July which will include a stop over in Illinois to see my girls.

so that leads us to today, I am trying to catch up on laundry and sleep while looking for jobs in MPLS online, dreaming of getting a dog and a condo, and feeling truly blessed. As I get older I am finding it easier and easier to recognize the negative in my life and cut it out. I am finding it easier to concentrate on the people who enrich my life and ignore those who don't, and I am finding it critical to surround myself with positive forces.

Hopefully I will update this thing sooner than five months from now..... fingers crossed.