Now, about tomorrow!!

Today is my birthday... I'm 32! I'm sentimental in the fact that on birthdays, significant anniversaries and new years, I look at my life, where it's at, what I've done and where I want it to go. I have to say, the last year has not been a disappointment!

I've been thinking a lot over the last several weeks and even more over the last week about if I will continue this blog after I've gotten home and life has returned to normal. I've decided not to. So effectively, this will be the last post. :( Now that I type that with the intention of posting it, it makes the finality of everything seem really REAL!

The adventure will never end... life is meant to be an adventure!

The adventure will just start to take on a different shape. So now that I'm not traveling and don't have traveling at the forefront of my mind.... I've registered with a temp agency and will continue to look for and perform temp work for the next few months. Provided the door is open when my circumstances are ready, I plan on moving up to Portland, Oregon and working again with the company that laid me off. They did want to keep me before I left and made it very clear I was welcome back when I got home. Ultimately, it was a very good company to work for... the office and management I was working under in Larkspur was what made it so miserable. I've been to the Portland office before and there's a very different vibe, a much better vibe. After I've been there for a year, I'll be eligible for tuition reimbursement again and can go to school to study international finance. Ultimately, I plan on moving back to Calcutta to do micro-financing. This however will be several years down the road!

In the meantime, the adventure is in the form of moving to a brand new state, much less city! I plan on learning how to roller skate in the interim and once I'm settled wherever that will be after the holidays, I want to join a roller derby team. Don't ask me where or why, but that just seems like a fitting competitive activity for me! And then there's school... for the first time ever, I'm actually excited about going to school, taking real (math and english) classes and having homework. Oh yeah, and then there's the book that everyone keeps telling me i should write....

No one knows what the future really holds! I have these plans at this moment, but this could all change depending on what opportunities are presented to me.

I'm excited for the new adventure that awaits me!