I Remember Blogging

[calendula_witch]

Wait, didn’t I used to keep a blog?

It’s been so long that, though I am going to attempt a recap of what’s happened since I last showed up here (March), I am certain to miss a million things. And I have no real excuses-just busy, crazy, life, etc etc, the usual. That is all.

I turned 50 on Monday. Which is making me look up from the fray. I am

Comments

[scarlettina]

Well, welcome back, my dear! You shall have me as an avid reader of your thoughts. I look forward to more.

[calendula_witch]

Thank you! It's good to be back. Here's hoping I can do this even semi-regularly. :-)

[martianmooncrab]

but wow, the difference, in just that time

having grown up in Sellwood, the city is becoming a horror... there are no working class neighborhoods anymore.

[joycemocha]

This. With our half-time life in Portland, we see the changes every time we come down. When that trip is every other week...well, that tells you the pace of change.

[calendula_witch]

And as if to illustrate this...in my email just now there is your comment, martianmooncrab's comment, and a LinkedIn email with the subject line, "Shannon, more than 30,000 new jobs in the Portland, Oregon area!"

[martianmooncrab]

more than 30,000 new jobs in the Portland, Oregon area

....if you dont mind minimum wage, seasonal work, and no housing, and if you do find housing, no parking!

[msconduct]

No pressure, but if you do swing by more often that would be lovely.  Glad to hear things are going well.  I'm shocked, though, at your description of Portland.  I'd started thinking of it as a little American Eden, so it's sad to hear it's not what it was.

[calendula_witch]

I will try to do so! I do enjoy blogging, and it was a little weird to try, and find my "voice" so rusty. I feel like I've been scrambling so hard for so long, always behind on everything, never getting the day's list done before it was time to stop and rush over to take care of something else...that kind of busy-ness is okay for short sprints, but it's not sustainable in the long term. I really want to find a little more balance and reflection in my life. Here's hoping. :-)

Portland still has a lot to recommend it--I find the weather fantastic, and there are amazing restaurants everywhere, and no sales tax, and it's groovy and weird and liberal--but the population explosion is very, very noticeable.

[klwilliams]

Everyone down here who was priced out of housing (or who sold their house for a million dollars) moved north to buy a new house outright. That was my emergency backup plan, but the housing prices have gone up so much there that it's unlikely we'd escape there if we need to escape. Plan B version 12 it is, then.

[calendula_witch]

I can add you to the Orcas Island real estate mailing list we're on, if you like. :-)