Month in review!
I’ve finally moved into a new place- right in the heart of Cambridge. It’s quaint, and lovely, a bit set back from the road, so it’s very quiet and peaceful. My room is on the far left hand side of the building- so the prosperity section- if you’re into feng shui! I find that very suitable considering how much I am thankful for these days. Abundance is a state of mind I try to aspire too, it doesn’t always work… I’m still working hard at my new job - it’s doing a lot of multi-tasking between 4 shows, and some editing (finally!). For a while, I was keeping myself busy, and now I’m happy when I have a moment to relax. I kind of love the busy-ness. I wonder if that’s why it’s called business- lots of people walking around being very ‘busy’.
In the meantime, I’ve spent time and effort getting my room to be my ‘home’- I painted all of last weekend- and I’m so proud of the results! It was worth the hours of hovering over corners and bending back to paint the ceiling. I’ll have to take a photo of it once it’s done! And I’m really enjoying having roommates who have completely different lives than me, yet we relate very well. One is my age working on an education doctorate, the other works as a librarian at Harvard. We bond over Glee, wine and chocolate. And the occasional silly housecat- Henry- who really is a ‘Fred’ in my mind.
I still feel like I’m ‘adjusting’ - which I thought would have taken a shorter amount of time- but then I realized I wasn’t just ‘moving’ back but really restarting my life here. This weekend I went down to visit my parents, and found two huge boxes of clothes that I had left behind with them before I left. It felt like winning a clothing lottery! You forgot how much you have when you have it around you all the time- but when you travel, you have less, and it works just as well. Lesson learned!
I’m also working on how possibly I can pay off enough/save up enough to find a way to return to NZ- even if for just a vacation. I see photos of all of my friends there, and the landscape and it makes me want to go back really soon. For now, I’m happy ‘restarting’ my life in the US for a while.
