Greetings from Seattle

Hello all!!!

I wanted to send greetings from Seattle and give an update on how things are going in my new city!! :-)

As most of you know, I moved up to Seattle on September 23rd so I have been in the city for about 3 weeks now. I started back at work last monday after two weeks of vacation, and let me tell you I wanted vacation to keep going! But so far the Seattle office has been great! I've been working at a client down in Federal Way (about 30 minutes south) and met quite a few people in the office, and all of them are great! Which I expected, but so far I've been working 8 hours a day! Amazing huh?! :-) I know that it'll get busier the longer I'm here, but so far its been a nice and easy transition. Plus the office seems really laid back. They even allow JEANS on Fridays! Thats a huge thing for me because jeans were a huge NO NO in our SD office.

My main clients in Seattle are going to be a couple of Not-for-Profit hospitals. I'm working on the Make-A-Wish Foundation Audit, as well as Providence Hospital. It'll be something new since I've been working on manufacturing clients for the last two years, but I'm up for the challenge!

I think so far my favorite things about Seattle are living so close to Amanda and Nick :-) And my APARTMENT! My apartment is in Belltown, and I have a view of the Puget Sound from pretty much every window in my apartment! I spent the first 3 or 4 days here painting, unpacking and decorating the place, and before I knew it, I was home :-). I've posted a million pictures on facebook, and will be posting pictures on here shortly so that if you don't have facebook you can check them out!

When I get home in time I get to watch the sunset from my window, and its just so peaceful. Belltown is a great place. Its in the heart of Seattle, within walking distance of great restaurants, bars, and parks, as well as Pike Place Market. And the other perk is that its only a hop, skip and a jump away from Amanda and Nick's place. Which makes going over to spend time so easy! :-) And will be a huge asset once little baby Datz enters the world here shortly!

Although I've been here for a little over 3 weeks, with all of the unpacking and trips, I've only had 2 weekends in Seattle free to explore. And it turns out that I have a couple of friends from college that live up here now and so we went out in Belltown and Fremont the last couple of weekends to explore the nightlife, and I have to say I had an unbelievable time. We went to this Irish Pub called Kells as well as Frontier Place, and The Ballroom and it was fabulous!! Got to meet a lot of new people and see what the town is all about. I also went out to a karaoke bar in Ballard this past weekend :) and sang Total Eclipse of the Heart....it was AWESOME!

I'll be all over the city exploring and having fun so get ready for lots of pics! I'll send out a mass email to let everyone know I've updated my blog.

I love you and miss you all!

Make sure you keep in touch! I usually sign on to Skype in the evenings after work, and I have a half hour commute every evening so you can probably catch me then! I also just got a webcam so we can videochat now!!! yaya!

Look for the next upload with pictures from my apartment!

Also - I hope you all can find a time to come out and visit! I'm booking it all on my calendar!

xoxo
Amy

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Insomniac - night owl

It is now coming to the close of my three weeks of blissful vacation. I have one more day until I return to my normal routine of killing myself night and day. Well, actually not even that. I'll be working for most of the day tomorrow making sure I get some prep work done before I go back.

And over the last 3 weeks I have turned myself into a night owl. I haven't gone to bed before 3 am since before Christmas....and tonight is no exception. I actually fell asleep around 8pm, which I was super excited for! But then woke up at 11pm and couldn't fall back to sleep even after lying in bed for an hour.

So here I sit wondering what I'm going to do come tomorrow night when I have to go to bed and get ready for the next morning. I'll probably end up taking a tylenol pm or something. Or more likely, I'll stay up till god knows when, wake up and then spend half of my week dragging until my body finally forces me to go to sleep at a normal time.

But for now, I'm going to sip on a glass of wine and hope it helps lull me back to sleep.

A Night of Reflection

I'm sitting in my apartment enjoying one of the last nights of freedom that I will have over the next several months, and contemplating so many things. What I still want to accomplish, where I want to go, who I want to be, and I have to say that I'm starting to see glimpses of it. I've spent the last year of my life thinking of how very lost I've become. I've stood back and observed my life and saw that I had no idea of what I was doing.

I blamed it on everything else but myself. And I've realized that by doing that I have been the person I do not want to be. I do not want to be someone who cannot admit to their own faults and shortcomings. We are all human and there will be many within our lifetime. It is the people who face these faults head on and admit that they are their own faults and not anyone elses that I strive to be like.

So going into this new year, I take reflection of the faults I have, of the decisions I've made (I won't say regrets, as I don't truly regret any of my choices because they have led me here), and strive to take efforts to set myself in the direction I want to go. The direction that I have known was right for me for as long as I can remember. To truly be me.