Another update
Lately, I've been trying to be more of a fly on the wall instead of the voice in the middle of the room.
Things have been going well, but not as well as I would like. I'm still in a tough financial place, but everything else is on track.
I now know how to drive a stick shift, although not as smoothly as I'd like. I've been practicing driving around SOMA and trying to avoid stopping since getting started again is the biggest problem I have. I only stalled once last night because (and I am doing this a lot) I was in second instead of first gear. I haven't been in fourth gear at all yet and need to get on the highway. I've become one of those drivers I hate, driving very, very slowly down the street while hoping the red light up ahead will change to green so that I don't have to stop and so I don't have to shift into third. All the bad things I've been hearing about Beetle breaks, these breaks work very well, but they are very different than any other car I've driven.
I decided not to take any classes this summer, and the fall catalog really stinks, so I have no idea what I'm going to take next. It may be 2-3 online HTML/XML/Coding classes and a strange Saturday class like apparel construction, auto body or welding. I've been dying to take welding. I'm usually most comfortable in an environment where I'm the only girl doing something girls don't usually do.
Saturday is two years since I arrived in San Francisco and starting dating Dave. What a crazy two years! I've learned a lot about myself. It has been a challenging two years. I'm still settling in, but I love my apartment and the girls are super, duper happy. For our anniversary, we are leaving town. Hopefully, going to enjoy some sun and greenery and aquatic life. I don't regret my decision to move here at all, even though I'm so much further to Europe and still financially struggling. It is worth it and I couldn't go to Europe any way because someone doesn't have a passport, yet. Oh well, at least I get to be a tourist in California for a little while longer. And a drive up north would be awesome too.
Things have been going well, but not as well as I would like. I'm still in a tough financial place, but everything else is on track.
I now know how to drive a stick shift, although not as smoothly as I'd like. I've been practicing driving around SOMA and trying to avoid stopping since getting started again is the biggest problem I have. I only stalled once last night because (and I am doing this a lot) I was in second instead of first gear. I haven't been in fourth gear at all yet and need to get on the highway. I've become one of those drivers I hate, driving very, very slowly down the street while hoping the red light up ahead will change to green so that I don't have to stop and so I don't have to shift into third. All the bad things I've been hearing about Beetle breaks, these breaks work very well, but they are very different than any other car I've driven.
I decided not to take any classes this summer, and the fall catalog really stinks, so I have no idea what I'm going to take next. It may be 2-3 online HTML/XML/Coding classes and a strange Saturday class like apparel construction, auto body or welding. I've been dying to take welding. I'm usually most comfortable in an environment where I'm the only girl doing something girls don't usually do.
Saturday is two years since I arrived in San Francisco and starting dating Dave. What a crazy two years! I've learned a lot about myself. It has been a challenging two years. I'm still settling in, but I love my apartment and the girls are super, duper happy. For our anniversary, we are leaving town. Hopefully, going to enjoy some sun and greenery and aquatic life. I don't regret my decision to move here at all, even though I'm so much further to Europe and still financially struggling. It is worth it and I couldn't go to Europe any way because someone doesn't have a passport, yet. Oh well, at least I get to be a tourist in California for a little while longer. And a drive up north would be awesome too.