Success!

First full week of the new job done. I feel good about it. Did my first payroll with minimal errors and if any come back with errors going forward from this batch, it will be a learning experience...I am only human after all. If we don't make errors and learn from our mistakes, we can't grow from the experience.

Have also gotten back into yoga; did a total of 3 days this week! Ha, I know not much, but going from being a lazy bum to finally getting off said bum and putting some positive movement back into my life, I'm feeling pretty good. I plan to eventually get up to more days per week but am starting slow. Don't want to go too crazy and risk injury, which could happen with over stretching.

It has me thinking though, about yoga on a whole. I'm always reaching about yoga enthusiasts who have gone on retreats to learn more and really live a full live of a yogini. I would love to do that. I think I need to do some research and check into this. Could be a fun adventure, if nothing else. I know there is a workshop retreat in Texas that a few ladies I know who are yogini's (I think I'm spelling that wrong) had attended and resulted in them becoming certified to teach. And actually, I would love to learn the ins and outs to where I could teach...may be a new goal on the horizon.

Only time will tell. But until then, I'm sitting here in my apartment, in the Spring, watching the snow fall like it's actually still Winter. I don't think the seasons can officially be labeled anymore. But a Spring Thundersnow (oh yes, there was thunder earlier as well) can't keep me inside and at home. Heading off to the parent's later to hang with my family while eating white chicken chili and drinking wine. I guess we're throwing a late Winter party!

Conquering "what if's" and other new beginnings

New day. New blog. New job to be starting in a week. New snowfall, though if everyone had listened to me when I was going on and on about the Farmer's Almanac and how we should have expected another snowfall, well then they wouldn't have been so surprised when they woke up...BUT, no one likes an "I told you so" so, this is me moving on from rubbing that point in, too much.

I'm sitting here unemployed, for a week, until I start my new job. Just moving on from one office gig into another...not like I'm moving on to conquer the world or any of my dreams. *sigh*

Last week I was able to finally catch up with an old friend via gmail chat! I really enjoy our chats because no matter how crazy I might think some of my latest ideas are, she's usually right there with me, in some manner of speaking, feeling the same way and yet she's actually doing something about it where as I'm over here planning and scheming and thinking it will never happen for me. For instance, we both LOVE to travel though as of yet in my almost 31 years on this planet, I have yet to travel farther than a few hour's drive or plane ride anywhere. She just got back from living abroad in Chile, surviving their earthquake last year and coming back to the states to not conform into the corporate world again.

There are times when I would really love to leave the corporate world behind and travel the world. I've even read some blogs like this and this and even this and all lead to similar suggestions to stop spending money on things you need, sell everything you own while keeping enough to live on and only survive on the bare minimum going forward so you can have money to go forth and conquer, so to speak. They even go so far as to suggest ways to earn money for when your savings runs out.

But, I'm often left with questions like, "I'm a girl and there are certain times of the month I might need to curl up in a ball, with some chocolate and a sappy movie, and cry my eyes out until the cramps go away. If I were in another country, would I have the same sort of, *ahem* products I find in the US to assist during this time?" There are just some questions I continue to have and reading blog after blog with suggestions, some just do not come up...and I freak and continue to go on living my normal happy existence where it is safe and warm (except for when it's snowing).

So that is where this blog will come in handy, to maybe not anyone else, but me. I plan to scour the lands (of blogs) to find answers for this and other unique questions, that again maybe only I have, before I were to ever venture out on a said adventure. But by all means, if you have a particular question you continue to have and have yet to find an answer, put it out there for the world to know...and together we will seek the truth because like the X-Files said "The Truth Is Out There"!

For now, I will sit in the comforts of my apartment (newly renewed lease-what, party!!), continuing to watch my stories (the list of tv shows I frequent would make some cry and I just bought (no I did not NEED these but damnit I WANTED them-I need help) season 1 and 2 of Alias because we all know Bradley Cooper is awesome now, but has always been awesome back to his Will Tippin days) and read about adventures of those braver than I are willing to make...and hopefully I can pick up tricks of the trade so that when the day finally comes (it may require a giant push and swift kick to my ass, literally) I can truly say I was fully prepared - to experience an adventure no one could entirely prepare me for.

I should fully inform you that this blog will not only be about research into becoming a solo female traveler but will also feature reviews on the various tv shows and movies I watch (I love you Bradley but I also cheat on you with other actors and actresses, oooh-la-la!) and books (yes I read too!) as well as any other adventures I may find myself on around my city. Because until I can muster up the courage, and money (as well as learn to stop buying silly things like dvds) I can plan out little day and/or weekend trips around my city because I am well aware there are even sights here I have unseen.

Some blog

Wow I promised all kinds of posts, as I read my first post on this blog...to then be followed by absolutely nothing. I have this addiction to creating blogs and building profiles and making them all pretty and then not remembering all the sites to go back and frequent. I pretty much blame the blackhole that is facebook and their games...right now most are putting up St. Patrick's Day goodies and my irish ass is stocking on all that crap!

But I digress away from my point in saying I pretty much suck at sticking with things once I start them. Soooo many good ideas always floating around my head constantly but then when I go to act on them they just literally putter out.

Well this is me trying to no longer be a putter...I have no idea if that's a golf analogy, I do not nor will I ever watch a man/woman try to hit a little ball into a hole that I for one can never get to go in when I play miniature golf. Stupid little ball JUST GO IN YOUR HOME! Yes, I may have been channeling Happy Gilmore a bit there.

Oh right, I'm at work...gotta go, like do some work. Back soon and if not well then I'll be doing another post talking about how I said I'd be back and didn't follow through. Story of my damn life. *shakes head*