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Life has been both eventful and seemingly very stagnant.
I spent the past couple months in therapy and it recently ended, as my therapist was an intern. It went well. Honestly sometimes it was nice to just have someone that I could unapologetically converse with, vent to, and get feedback from. I've definitely had many instances throughout my life where I felt like I really just needed someone to talk to whom I respected rather than a "therapist" per se.
Recently the senior pastor at my church has been trying to reach out to the young adults. I commend his efforts lol, it's not his fault that few young adults go to our church.
During the past few days my parents, Raven, and I went to a family reunion in Virginia, thrown by my maternal grandfather's branch of the family. I did enjoy it, although excessive time with family/the elderly can take a toll on me at times. I loved the tour of D.C. during the reunion, I'd love to vacation there and go museum hopping.
While out of town, I started the Two Hundred Squats and [One] Hundred Pushups programs, and today I started One Fifty Dips and Two Hundred Situps. It was especially nice since I couldn't do Insanity and I didn't feel like running everyday. With the Pushups one, I can easily see that Insanity has given me a good base to start it, I definitely could not do 20+ consecutive real pushups a few months ago.
I've been working to make Spain a reality. Meaning that I'm...more-or-less planning to go regardless of how financially ready I am. I'm basically taking the approach of "whether or not I make it, I'm doing all I can to try," especially since I'd be moving there to work, so money would be coming.
I'm in the middle of preparing my documents to get my visa, that was goal number one. At the time I started getting them ready, a little less than a month ago, I had no clue how any of this could work out financially, but I felt that at the very least I should get my visa and give this an honest try. I've recently been approved for a credit card with no foreign transaction fees. I told myself that there is essentially no way this could work out if I don't take that step, and since I'm hoping to make a life abroad, that is something that needed to be done in any case. Currently, I'm getting certain things ready to sell on eBay/Amazon Marketplace and am working on a budget regarding necessary costs and preparations. I already know that I need to pack as few things as I can manage in any case, "the less crap you bring, the better," so having such a constrained budget takes it to another level. It forces me to more deeply determine what I need that has yet to be purchased. I'm also wrapping up some other financial obligations as well, working on a payment plan (medical bills from time in the ER a few months ago for some stress-related ailments...another reason to relocate and "start over")
Between my previous time in Spain and groups on Facebook, which are full of advice that I've both given and received and "friends" to network with while in Spain/Madrid, I pretty have a "Get Back to Spain or Die Trying" mindset. More or less. Knowing my luck, I'm afraid the universe will take that too literally.
I'm working on a crowdsourcing page on the off chance someone somewhere wants to donate, but I'm doing all I can with the assumption that nothing comes from that. This photo will be part of that page lol:
I spent the past couple months in therapy and it recently ended, as my therapist was an intern. It went well. Honestly sometimes it was nice to just have someone that I could unapologetically converse with, vent to, and get feedback from. I've definitely had many instances throughout my life where I felt like I really just needed someone to talk to whom I respected rather than a "therapist" per se.
Recently the senior pastor at my church has been trying to reach out to the young adults. I commend his efforts lol, it's not his fault that few young adults go to our church.
During the past few days my parents, Raven, and I went to a family reunion in Virginia, thrown by my maternal grandfather's branch of the family. I did enjoy it, although excessive time with family/the elderly can take a toll on me at times. I loved the tour of D.C. during the reunion, I'd love to vacation there and go museum hopping.
While out of town, I started the Two Hundred Squats and [One] Hundred Pushups programs, and today I started One Fifty Dips and Two Hundred Situps. It was especially nice since I couldn't do Insanity and I didn't feel like running everyday. With the Pushups one, I can easily see that Insanity has given me a good base to start it, I definitely could not do 20+ consecutive real pushups a few months ago.
I've been working to make Spain a reality. Meaning that I'm...more-or-less planning to go regardless of how financially ready I am. I'm basically taking the approach of "whether or not I make it, I'm doing all I can to try," especially since I'd be moving there to work, so money would be coming.
I'm in the middle of preparing my documents to get my visa, that was goal number one. At the time I started getting them ready, a little less than a month ago, I had no clue how any of this could work out financially, but I felt that at the very least I should get my visa and give this an honest try. I've recently been approved for a credit card with no foreign transaction fees. I told myself that there is essentially no way this could work out if I don't take that step, and since I'm hoping to make a life abroad, that is something that needed to be done in any case. Currently, I'm getting certain things ready to sell on eBay/Amazon Marketplace and am working on a budget regarding necessary costs and preparations. I already know that I need to pack as few things as I can manage in any case, "the less crap you bring, the better," so having such a constrained budget takes it to another level. It forces me to more deeply determine what I need that has yet to be purchased. I'm also wrapping up some other financial obligations as well, working on a payment plan (medical bills from time in the ER a few months ago for some stress-related ailments...another reason to relocate and "start over")
Between my previous time in Spain and groups on Facebook, which are full of advice that I've both given and received and "friends" to network with while in Spain/Madrid, I pretty have a "Get Back to Spain or Die Trying" mindset. More or less. Knowing my luck, I'm afraid the universe will take that too literally.
I'm working on a crowdsourcing page on the off chance someone somewhere wants to donate, but I'm doing all I can with the assumption that nothing comes from that. This photo will be part of that page lol: