I have started to take care of myself in a new way. No more crap. My AM pointed something out to me last week and I realized after talking to her that it was true. I had allowed another person's negativity to influence my outlook on life at work. I have been miserable and I had forgotten how incredibly fortunate I am to even have a job given the current state of the economy. So no more crap. My other frame of mind at work and even at home is "back to basics" and by that I mean that I need to revisit the lessons I have been taught. There is no need to make life complicated.
Using back to basics at work I have gotten out of my funk of just relying on the words I used to sell. Seeing is believing and showing a customer what makes us the best is why I loved my job in the first place. I do truly have an awesome job because I get to give people the gift of comfort.
Back to basics at home means getting back into a routine that allows me time to work out, take care of myself and eat better. Since the beginning of the New Year I have lost the extra weight I put on during the holidays. Now I am back to working on losing the excess pounds that take away from my feeling of confidence. I stand tall and enjoy what I have, but there is nothing wrong with wanting more. I want to be in the best shape possible for the start of married life that I will hopefully be enjoying sometime next year. Yes, Brad and I will be getting married next year. We have decided that it is time. We are thinking and looking at buying a house soon. We are going to wait until Brad and I have determined where we will be moving after the wedding because we know a move is coming it is just a matter of where we are moving.
Florida is a wonderful place to visit, beautiful if you are on the coast; however, it is not a place Brad and I truly see ourselves settling down permenantly. It makes me sad to admit that considering the fact that we have so many family members here, but we don't see them often. We also want to move to a place where we would have more in common with our neighbors. I want to join groups and take up a hobby for myself. I want to meet women my own age that I have things in common with and can relate to on more than one level.
2009 was difficult and rewarding for Brad and I. It started off very rough with us both being unemployed, with no money to enjoy the city we loved, and no way to keep a home with both loved. As the year went on and we left Atlanta, we discovered that it would all be for the better. The apartment that we loved in Atlanta is no longer a safe place to live, we both are doing something we enjoy, and we are making leaps and bounds towards the goals we had only vaguely discussed in the past. Moving to Florida has been good for us, just as Georgia was good for us. I feel like 2010 will be a wonderful year for us and I look forward to getting back to basics.
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