Life in the city

So this week has been interesting........I started a new job last week after being off for just over a year, and I have not exactly been keeping up the old professional banking skills! Don't think I have been completely docile during my entire downtime.....I did some pretty progressive landscaping, got addicted to hot yoga, went to the gym a few times a week...and usually included a couple of lunch dates so I could remember how to have conversations with other people. But a work lifestyle it was not.........and that was welcoming. As a good friend of mine told me; once you start forgetting what day of the week it is you know you have finally settled into a life of relaxing.....that did happen....and I was relaxed.

Last week.........not so much!

I suppose I should expect a little stress...I am in a new city, a new apartment (a VRBO so none of my own stuff)  a new job, and I am alone.....Dwight does not join me until the end of the month. All of these experiences made me think "What is it about our need for routine in our lives, and once we get it we want it to change?"

My first day at work was filled with what, where, when and how is expected of me. Of course, the first thing you try to establish is sense of belonging, and there is no better way to do that then to set up your work area and establish a routine.  Even if its getting a coffee at a certain time of the day, by having something you can expect its can bring you a sense of calm. The building is certainly interesting......rather like Fort Knox, the reason why? Well there are about 350 people that work there and a large part of them handle a lot of cash....not the ones that report to me however even out material is pretty sensitive.....so its best not to know whats happening in the building...the best way to do that....make it a rather boring building....and that it is......on the outside.

There is so much happening right now all I can think of is.......take every moment as a new experience and be happy that I get to have them before they become routine. We often forget that life is just a series of moments, those moments turn into experiences and those experiences become our lives..........when our life becomes routine it just means that we need to branch out and find new experiences.........and from the looks of this town.....that wont be hard to do!!!

I travel back to Victoria this weekend to complete the final details of selling our house and all of the moving stuff......I am looking forward to seeing my friends. Of everything that has changed that is the one this that I do regret.....there is noting more important than the people you surround yourself with and unfortunately they will now be much further away..........I hope that I can be one of their experiences on a regular basis and we don't loose touch, good people are hard to find...........good friends are even harder.

No pictures on this one......but there will be next time..........promise..........


Till next time...........