Work has been filled with a lot of changes. For the last year different departments have gone through restructuring and some of the branch libraries are now closed on Friday and Sunday's. Well recently the changes have hit my department. Three new people are in the department along with one being our new boss. After 3 1/2 years of working at the library change is hard to adjust to.
Summer is right around the corner and I'm trying to solidify my travel plans. I have vacation time set up from July 3-14 and the library will be on furlough from August 30-Sept 6. so that gives me another week off. Previous plans of traveling with my sister and niece have fallen through so I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do. I know that I want the time off to include some time in the mountains, possibly in Wyoming and Colorado, but I'd also like to visit family and friends back home in Michigan too. The tough part for Michigan is the cost of airfare and car rental while I'm home. Any travels to the Rocky Mountains would be done in my own car.
The hard part about traveling back home is when it's time to leave and come back to Seattle. I love living in Seattle and having the mountains and water so close by, but my family and friends are back home. I have a large family and I hardly know any of my niece's and nephews because I've always lived away from home since they've been born. I have friends there too who I've known since elementary school and they are some of the best people that I've ever met. I do have some great friends here in Seattle too, so sometimes I get really torn between both places.
I do know that right now I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be. I do have a good job that has made it possible for me to get out of debt. The mountains are less than an hours drive away and Puget Sound is literally 10 minutes away and the shipping canal is 5 minutes from home. I keep in touch with friends and family back home through the internet and phone calls and it's wonderful. As I get older though I'm going to have to decide what is more important to me, living in Michigan with friends and family, or the mountains and friends that I have here. Also I have my biological sister and niece out here too. Without them I would have never moved out here. They have both helped me out in life in more ways than I could ever dream possible. I have been able to watch my niece grow up for the last 6.5 years and it has been wonderful to watch her grow up into the great girl that she is today.
For now, I keep living my life for today and am grateful for everything that I have.
