When you move somewhere totally foreign to you, everything is new. You never know where you're going (I don't at least!), and you don't yet have go-to places and familiar faces. You go through this surreal time when you keep thinking, "Do I really live here now?" When I first moved to San Diego, there were so many unknowns. My husband and I had recently gotten married, and he was fortunate enough to get San Diego as his duty station in the Marine Corps. We didn't know if he'd get deployed anytime soon, and once we arrived in a cross-country move from Florida, where we lived for a short stint while he was training, we found out that he would be getting deployed in just a couple of short weeks. Moving 2,500 miles from family, then finding out I'd be there alone was an ... [Read More]
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Big Changes In My World | Life Update!
My friends, I feel like I've been holding out on you lately. This blog is a place where I share my passions for food, exercise, travel, and all things healthy living, but it's also a place where I share pieces of my personal life and what's been happening in my world. There have been some big changes in the making and I've kind of kept quiet on here about them because I've been busy getting it all figured out.... but today I want to fill you in! When I first moved to California in the beginning of 2010, while I immediately fell in love with so much here, I didn't think it would be our forever home. So much has happened over the years, from living the Marine wife lifestyle, deployments, and adjusting to San Diego being my new home, to moving up to Northern California for a stint, to ... [Read More]
My New Home
Greetings from SoCal! Fortunately the move went pretty smoothly last weekend and I've been busy unpacking and getting things in order. Even though we're living a good 45 minutes north from where we resided last time we lived in the area (for reference for any locals, we lived in Mission Valley before and just moved into Oceanside), I'm already starting to feel at home and am glad to be back! I didn't know many people in the Bay Area and am enjoying having friends again! The first day we were here, a couple of our friends came over to help us unpack and see our place. We drank some wine and caught up, and it was a nice break from the madness of moving. Last night, I got together and had some Greek food with one of the first friends I made when I initially moved to San Diego. Her ... [Read More]
Sayonara San Francisco Bay Area
Happy Friday! It has been a little crazy around here because... I'm moving back to San Diego tomorrow! And I closed on my house there yesterday! The signing process got delayed a bit because of the intense wild fire situation going on there, but my new home should be safe from harm and is officially ours. :) I'll share pictures soon! Oh, and have I mentioned that it has been so hot in Morgan Hill all week? It's "cooler" here today, which means 90 degrees instead of yesterday's 99 degrees. It's May madness! While I am so excited to be going back to San Diego, I have had a lot of fun since moving to the South San Francisco Bay Area 14 months ago. I thought it'd be nice to reflect on my favorite memories of living up here, so here we go: Hiking - This is the most rural ... [Read More]