This is it.

I have to be awake in one and a half hours to get my stuff together and out the door to catch my flight to LA.  

Crazy.  Time flies when you're having fun!

Philly

This was my second to last weekend on the east coast, and I think I spent it very well.  I took the train into Philadelphia with some friends on friday, ate some good chinese food, bought some curry (my friend got a nice wok!), then rented a private karaoke room and spent about three hours singing, drinking, and eating sushi!  As if that's not enough, we went out after that and danced around a bar near market east and had to rush to catch the last train out of the city!

On saturday we drove back to the city and did toursisty stuff since I've never really been sight seeing around here.  We got lunch at the reading terminal, posed for pictures in front of oversized game pieces, fought through skaters to get our picture taken in love park, walked through rittenhouse square, watched the huge tv in the lobby at the new Comcast building, the drove back to West Chester for some pizza and a soak in a hot tub.

Life is good.  I can't believe I have to leave all of this!

This must be it, welcome to the New Year

I'd like to start this off by thanking everybody for coming to my going away/family christmas party on the 27th! It was great to see so many people even though I didn't have a chance to sit down and talk to as many of you as I would have liked.

Ok, so you probably read my email and clicked a link that sent you here. This is my "blog" (I'm not fond of the word blog, but it will have to do for now). While I am in Australia I plan on posting stories on this site! Feel free to comment as much as you want!

Right now I really don't have much news regarding my trip. I've decided to take guitars instead of clothing and I still don't have a place to live. Lets save that for a later blog post, or blog entry, or bloggerie... whatever it's called.

Getting closer

This is for real.  For real real.  I’ve been unemployed for over a week, I have less than a month left to go.  Shit.

 

I guess now would be a good time to pull my head out of my ass and start getting ready for my future life, but I have a feeling that this won’t happen.  I’ve come to realize that I am an extremely lucky person and I really believe that somehow everything will absolutely work out for me when I get there.  Everything always does.  I used to think that catching every red light, always having it rain on my vacations, failing at love, and always losing tons of money on every kind of gamble (including exchange rates…) made me an unlucky person.  Now I see how having such great health, so many wonderful friends, a great family, and an open world of opportunities makes me so very lucky.  Seriously, my life is awesome and always has been.  If you’re reading this, then yours probably is too.  It’s just hard to realize this until you have to say goodbye to all of it.   Even through the hardest times I’ve always had my health and my friends, and as long as they both stay intact I will live a very happy life.

 

Maybe I’m crazy, but I really truly believe that I can just show up in Sydney with no friends, no place to live, no money, and no clue what I want to do with my life and somehow all of the pieces will fall together and I will end up a better happier person.  Am I scared to death to do it?  Yes.  But what’s really scary is that I’m probably right.

 

For now I’m doing my best to enjoy what time I have left in the states.  These last few weeks have been very interesting and I have a feeling it is going to get more interesting.  Some of this might be “bad” interesting, but I’ll deal with that when/if it happens.  For now I’m having fun.  Lots and lots of fun!

 

I should probably think about going to sleep some time soon.  It’s past 3 am and I’m laying on a friend’s couch in Harrisburg after a wedding and a fun night out in town.  Life is good.

 

 

So close

Here I am on November 30th, just 1.5 months away from leaving.  I have my tickets, I think I have a place to stay for 2 weeks once I get there.  These next few weeks are going to be stressful.

At least I only have 10 days of work left.  

mmmmmmm, I'd enjoy some summer weather right about now!

Time

Where did it go?  

Seriously, wtf.  This isn't funny guys.  Give me my time back.

Anyway, I just locked myself out of my house, so I'm spending my precious hours sitting in my back yard freezing my ass off.  It's a good thing my laptop is keeping my legs so warm!  About a half hour ago I was trying to keep warm by climbing all over my house looking for a way to break in.  It's nice to know that our house is secure, but kind of annoying that the dogs didn't even notice me trying to pry open windows and pick locks.  Worst watch dogs ever.

I guess in a way I should be happy that I have a house I can be locked out of.  In a few weeks I'm just going to have my guitar (maybe) and a sense of adventure.