All of These Changes...

What can I say about the past week or so?! I knew at some level it would come to this. It was almost more a matter of when than a matter of if. Sometimes a change of scenery is a good thing. I have to look at it that way. It is easy to look at it that way. I am happy with where I am now that I am here. Yes, we don't like life in turmoil but it is part of being human. We would not have a backbone is we did not have struggles in our lives. It isn't easy leaving all that you know for the unknown. I'm not saying it's the wild, wild west but isn't it in a way. At least it is in some ways for me. To go from California to living in Washington, the weather changes, the people changes, the lifestyle changes. I think I miss my friends and the warm beaches the most. They pretty much tie with one another.
While it is a sudden change of events in some ways. It's a nice change of pace in others. I've been working out steadily, eating quite healthy, enjoying the time I've gotten to spend with family and loved trying new things like tanning! What an experience! I've never laid in one of those tanning beds before but I definitely have a new appreciation for them like never before. There are only two times I feel warm: one is when I take a hot shower and the other is the couple of minutes spent lying in the tanning bed. It has been cold, colder than I am most definitely used to. In Socal I am the one who likes it cool but here it goes beyond cool to freezing.
I got a membership to 24 Hour Fitness. Awesome I know. I have to tell you, it can be intimidating especially if you are self-conscious about your weight or size or hell even if you aren't. Seeing all those people all buffed out kinda makes you hesitate like great not only are there fit people here but there are more mirrors than you'd like to see angles of your ass. I know gyms attract a certain kind of people, I've seen the buffed out douchebags that walk around like they got sticks up their ass; the skinny chick that is wearing her sports bra and not much else; the typical grunters that sweat all over every exercise machine and doesn't wipe it down afterwards because they are entitled or something. Then there are the normal people that are just there to either get in shape or stay in shape. There should be more heavy set people there but there isn't. It's sad but true. The fat people should be lining up around the block to lose their fat ass. Hell, 24 sponsors the Biggest Loser, so get over there and become your own version of the Biggest Loser. I think I'm going to make a tank top just for me to wear proclaiming my goal, "Team Skinny Lisa" as Heather likes to put it. Got to get creative with your situation and encouragement!
Overall, I could not be happier or more at peace with this change of pace. I'm about to embark on an adventure into the relative unknown. I'm going to find a job and career that fits me, I'm going to find a good home church (I'm hoping it will be Mars Hill) and I'm going to enjoy every moment I can hanging out with my Dad (and other family of course). But I'm going to cherish those times because they are God's unexpected gift to me. I'm taking a page from Ruth in the old testament, what a lady. I could learn to trust God unwavering as she did. Here's to finding a Boaz and not a Bozo.