The Good Life

Today the entirety of my life in Alaska was neatly packed in boxes and put in a truck to be shipped away. The movers arrived at 8:30 and by noon all of mine and Dustin's belongings were in boxes and ready to be put in crates to be shipped to Utah. As I was going through my clothes and belongings, deciding what would be shipped and what would be packed with us in the car on our drive, I realized that in the last two years I've accumulated a lot shit. Not shit in the sense of garbage, just stuff.  Our house has never felt full or cluttered, so Dustin and I were under the impression that we just didn't own a lot of things, we were wrong. Our house is somehow capable of holding more things than you would expect. Even though we sold the majority of our large furniture, there was still a lot to be packed away. Our whole life packed away and in the garage I'm now sitting in my nearly-empty living room and I'm reminded of of first few nights Dustin and I spent ...

Dustin and I are officially two weeks away from piling into his Volvo 240 wagon and starting our two day trip to Haines to catch the ferry to Bellingham. I'm super nervous and my mind is racing with all the things that need to get done before then, and every once in a while I catch myself thinking "let's just sell my car, and fly to Salt Lake, that would be so much easier.". Then I remember that the whole point of driving from Alaska to Utah (even though we're not quite brave enough to drive the Alcan highway in the middle of winter) is because it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see parts the U.S. and Canada that we wouldn't otherwise. I've lived in Alaska a little over four years and I've never been to or seen the eastern interior, or southeast, so although the drive from Anchorage to Haines is mostly just wilderness, I'm still looking forward to seeing it in all it's wild, rugged beauty. We've decided that in the spirit of tr...

I’ve been struggling with what to write for my first post, there’s all this pressure to make the first post of a new blog excellent, to set the bar to future entries. To be honest, I’m not 100% sure what direction this blog is going to take. 2018 holds so many major life changes for me that I could realistically focus on any one little part and have more than enough material to publish. For now however, I think I want to focus on the beginnings and endings in my life at the moment. It’s never easy to leave someone or something that you love and have come to cherish, even a job or a career. My least favorite thing to do is to quit a job I truly enjoy, even more so a job with coworkers and a boss that welcomed me and made me feel truly appreciated. I know I’ll have one hell of a time finding another job in a place that was as good to me as the neurology office I’ve spent the last eight months. Giving my notice today was probably one of the most nerve wracking and stressful things I...