I am definitely a hypochondriac. Or at least a WebMD, google expert. I have diagnosed myself with many a thing but no one was more surprised than me 10 years ago to be told I had renal cell carcinoma. When I presented my sister with my I told you so with a great flourish, she dryly quipped “you were bound to be right ONE of the times you were overly dramatic”. Touché.
Today I am ten years no evidence of disease. So in very typical me fashion allow me to dramatically overstate the obvious.
- None of us get out of this roller coaster alive. What we make of the ride is all we have. So drink the froo froo coffee drink, buy the REALLY NICE shoes, have the ice cream for dinner (if you’re not lactose intolerant like they say I am).
- Post the pictures of your fur babies, plates of pasta, offspring, first blossom of spring and random selfie. It’s fun to join you in celebration and when I say you’re in my thoughts and prayers when you post the challenges you’re facing, I promise you’re in both.
- If someone thinks you’re crazy for quitting the job, moving across the country or cutting bangs, let them. If I have learned ANYTHING in my 7.5 years (yes Paul I count them ALL), everyone is some degree of crazy. Don’t try and hide it, embrace it, we’re all a little mad here.
- Don’t wait until you move to spruce up your home, get the touch up paint and paint the door where the dog scratched it, buy the pretty rug, wash the windows, plant the flowers, get a new duvet cover. Why do we wait until someone else will see it? We see it everyday, make it shine.
- Get rid of sh*t you don’t need. This comes from my little hoarding heart, take a pic, relive the memory, but you don’t have to keep everything. As we have packed to move with an estimate of 2800 cubic feet of stuff we are moving across the country, if you look at the shirt and think it’s too _________ and you don’t want to put it on RIGHT NOW, donate it. We have too much stuff and it is a burden. An expensive burden. And a mental burden.
I am sure I have more sage and savvy advice but I am going to say this. In the next week, everything changes for our herd. And there is sadness for what is still in the PNW that lives in our hearts and it shares space with excitement for what it is to come.
Adventure is out there. ~ Kerri
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