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#5 Pinkalicious Wednesdays Blog Hop for HOPE
Welcome to #5 Pinkalicious Wednesday a Blog Hop for HOPE! This blog hop is a special place for all our blogger friends to link up and spread breast cancer awareness. Hop around for HOPE and grab a few new friends. You’ll be surprised at how much you have in common with your fellow bloggers.
This will be the last Pinkalicious Wednesday Blog Hop for HOPE to support Breast Cancer! It’s been an amazing month with amazing support, and we wanted to say thank you to everyone who linked up your blogs in support of breast cancer!
*Supporting breast cancer has been a cause that is near and dear to our hearts. By linking up your blogs with survivor stories, breast cancer facts, stories of how you support the cause, donation pages, letters to a loved one loss to breast cancer could help spread awareness. It’s def OK if you don’t have any breast cancer stories or facts, all we ask is for you to link up your blog, and hop around you might find some interesting breast cancer info that way 🙂Here’s a little stat for you if you haven’t been able to read or research…1 out of 8 women have a chance of being diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. That’s a real fact! If you have a family history of cancer, you should schedule an appointment every year to check for bumps. As well as always checking yourself at least once a month at home.
I look forward to seeing what my blogger friends are up to this week!! This blog hop will take place Every Wednesday this month! My goal is to continue this blog hop past October but we will see how well the blog hop does. There are co-host spots available, if your interested in being a co-host, email me at lilmadjesse85@gmail.com
Don’t Forget Me
As I was preparing to move, I had worries that of course came up, one of which was this:
I am familiar with this feeling because I had pangs of it when Tim PCSed to Hawaii in October 2011. Over the years, the feeling subsided because I became more and more confident in our relationship’s ability to withstand the thousands of miles of distance between us. And now, we’re mere months away from kissing the distance goodbye.
But I was now having this feeling in regards to family and friends. I am going to be a bit far away and therefore unable to attend most family and friend events. I will inevitably miss get togethers, holidays, births, birthdays and celebrations.
Will I be missed by my loved ones? There’s no doubt in my mind that I will be, especially at first. But will I eventually just be forgotten? That’s a scary thought and something I hope I won’t have to face. While it is a possibility, I believe the relationships I have built are strong enough to withstand my move.
Moving Day Letter to My First City Love
Dear New York City,
I am sincerely sorry but I’ve chosen another city over you.This isn’t the first time. But this time is different. You see, when I went away to Pennsylvania for college I figured I would be back to you in four years. When I studied abroad in Barcelona, I returned to you in a few months. When I left for Hawaii, I knew I had to come back to you to pack my belongings and say my “see you laters” if I was going to move. I guess, in a way, I did not really leave you those times. This time is not like those times, though. This time, I don’t have a projected end or return date. This time, I am headed to Chicago with a one-way ticket.
My new career calls. Life beckons. I am onward to new opportunities and adventures.
But please know that I will miss you. I will miss feeling as if I feel in a suburb of ~2.5 million diverse residents. I will miss your pizza. I will miss walks in [the neighborhood park]. I will miss the proximity of [the neighborhood mall]. I will miss driving (because I will not have a car in Chicago for a little while). I will miss having the ocean nearby. I will miss navigating your hectic but efficient subways (but definitely not the antics I have witnessed which are too absurd to put into this love letter). Heck, I’ll probably even miss waiting for the buses on my street. I will miss the hustle and bustle of downtown . . . and even “the City” (Manhattan). And I will really miss my family and friends. I will miss it all because it all reminds me of you. It all reminds me of home.
Brooklyn, you will always be my first home sweet home and I will always be proud to say I was born and raised within your geographical bounds. You are my first city love . . . I just need to be somewhere else. I want a city life without your city’s price. This is something I’ve always wanted to do – move to another city to pursue my career. I’m all for expanding my horizons.
That’s not to say I am not afraid, though. I am. I am afraid of missing you too much. Of feeling like I’ve traded you in and can’t get you back soon enough, if at all. Of not having the comfort of knowing my surroundings since birth. Of feeling alone and lonely – because I love you, and I love the people I leave behind who still call you home.
This choice has been a hard one but I believe I have made the right decision. Only time will tell. I just hope you’ll still love me. Oh, and don’t miss me too much – I’ll be back to visit before you know it.
Me walking the Brooklyn Bridge
Forever a Proud Brooklynite,
P.S. Readers, please bare with me as I will be pretty absent from here during my moving process!
So Much To Do in Not So Much Time
Aloha Friday! Yes, I’m back on the mainland but I like Aloha 365 days a year, no matter where I am… I digress.
So, the theme of my October posts has unintentionally been (and will probably continue to be for a bit) moving. I hope I am not boring you but it’s the biggest thing going on in my life right now.
This is also my biggest big girl move — in my entire life. I’m headed hundreds of miles away from my hometown to live in a large city by myself. While I know a few people there, I don’t have a core group of friends or family awaiting me. But that’s okay because I’m doing this for my dream job, and how many people can ever say that they’ve been given a shot at their dream and gave it a try?? I’m all for adventure and experience, and very rarely can those two be achieved without risk. So I guess you can also call me Risk Taker.
Well, in regards to this exciting life moment I’ve made a short checklist to update you all on how the process is going:
The last few are the most hectic, though getting my apartment while living in Hawaii was not the easiest — and I even wound up being beat to the first apartment I planned on applying for. Fortunately, I got another apartment in the building I wanted and that’s all coming together.
Regarding the other stuff, furnishings are so expensive!!! I’m itching to already start getting paid because looking at the prices of everything reminds me that money is a necessity and unforunately does not grow on trees. Thankfully, my family’s amazing and helping out. Thankfully x2, Tim and I have brand new bedroom, living room and kitchen sets so I won’t have to worry about that when the time comes to move to a bigger place. Packing has also been overwhelming because I own so. much. stuff. I have to prioritize what I want to move with me and then family will hopefully send me the rest soon. Moving my belongings will also be hectic, as space is limited.
So, yes, it’s been stressful and a lot to take in but it’s also been exciting. I’m really trying not to forget that this is an exciting time because I want to enjoy it as much as possible.
P.S. Check out my new About Me and Love Story pages 🙂
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