B'HAM LIFE

Summer has arrived!!! I have had the windows open and the weather has just been delightful! Lots of rain but I love rain so that is okay! Rain and sunshine! I love it! 

So the newest thing I have learned about living in the south is that I have allergies. I never had allergies in the north I guess because I grew up there and my body was used to all the familiar pollens. Well !!!! My body doesn’t like the pollens here! Mercy! I have had a sinus headache for 5 days, nose runs and then gets stuffy, It is just a mess! But the sunshine is fantastic!

Well my home town has been hit with a blizzard!! Sent the town into a panic! The office was closed so those of us that could worked from home! I love the south but this snow seriously needs to go back up north! For real! Ain't nobody got no time for this mess!!!

It is snowing in WV right now!!! Wahoo!!! Keep it up there! It is 57 degrees and the sun is shinning brightly! Love the weather here so far! I rode my motorcycle yesterday and today for work! Love this weather.

It is a few days before my birthday and I am just feeling so grateful and blessed! I have a great career that I enjoy immensely and have made some wonderful new friends. I have plans this weekend! Dontravious is coming up to visit, taking me out to eat on Friday night for my birthday then cooking me a surprise dinner on Saturday night! I am so excited and cannot wait!

I contemplated moving from my apartment and obtaining a roommate to help with living expenses..but the more I thought about it...I realized I would miss my independence and freedom to come and go as I please and do what I want when I want to. So I am going to stay here in this apartment (which I love) for a few more months anyway. I have redone my budget plan and am excited to see the changes in my lifestyle and checkbook!

It is a brand new year! And what a grand new year so far! I ended the year spending time with a special person for the weekend. We hung out, cooked meals, went shopping, went to a new year’s eve party that a co-worker of mine invited us to, and then ended up spending the turn of the new year at my apartment listening to music, talking and having some champagne. It was fabulous!

I returned to work and everything just exploded. In a good way, though. For the first 5 months here I wasn’t tasked with very much to work on, I learned as much as I could but needless to say I was bored and just watched the clock tick by. It drove me crazy! Well that has changed and I am so excited to be busy again. I am contributing to the team and being useful! It has been a great couple of weeks.

I moved here with the misconception that it doesn’t get this cold in the south. Well there was ice on my windshield this morning! I scraped the ice with a credit card! Haha so ghetto! It goes below freezing some nights and then up to the high 30’s or low 40’s during the day! Still way better than it staying cold all day long like it does in WV!

So an update on my "fabulous life" as one follower stated...Let's just say I LOVE LIVING IN THE SOUTH! It has been an awesome 5 months and I am enjoying everyday of it. I have learned so much about myself (good & bad) and have been growing professionally and personally so much. This Christmas holiday season is shaping up to be one of the best. I am coming back to WV today for the weekend to see my kids! We are going to cook and bake together, play games, open presents, and watch movies! It is going to be awesome! I am also going to get some BESTIE time in there too and I am so excited about that! Then I will be flying back to my new home in Alabama for the week of Christmas. I have my skinny lil tree up and decorated and I plan to spend the holiday the majority of the time alone and reflecting on this past year. So much has happened. I am just so grateful and blessed! God is so good!

I have been making some really good friends here and I have definitely enjoyed making these new connections and getting to know them all individually! Like I have always said, friends are my new family! Life is good!

I miss some things back in the north (like Sheetz - oh I am so giddy thinking about it today) but for the most part I am so glad I moved and started this next chapter of my life!

OH Lordy it has been cold this weekend and week! Mercy! I moved south for the warm not the cold! Goodness. lol

Life has been great recently. Really learning my way around the area and getting to know more people in and out of work. Have made a small group of friends from work, we have gotten together for dinner and football on several occasions. It is nice to be connecting with a group! We made individual homemade pizzas this past weekend and it was a friggin blast!

My apartment is finally more organized. I have unpacked everything! I hung pictures on the walls last week. Doesn't look so bare and cold anymore. The views from my windows are gorgeous! All the fall leaves across the city, just breath taking! Each morning I slowly make my way to my cycle (well not recently it has been so cold) and as I walk out the door the aromas from the coffee shop just hit me and I smile! Love the smell of fresh coffee in the morning! Such a nice way to enter the world each day!

I started new medicine this past week and had every side affect that it warns about. So doctor has taken me off that and I am just waiting for direction for the next step. I am OK. I have my days but I am doing well.

Thanksgiving will be a blast, I am going to be spending it with close friends out of state!

Christmas I will be back in MD for a quick weekend to see my kids! Cannot wait. I will be putting up my Christmas tree the weekend following thanksgiving (all you people putting up trees and decorating before thanksgiving are nuts...always gotta be rushing the holidays). I will post a picture of the tree once it is up.

I guess I will keep this for a little longer. lol

I think Fall has arrived in B'ham. It was in the low 60's this morning. Everyone is sweaters and jackets. They were all talking about turning the heat on and getting ready for winter! I am like "Are yinz crazy? this is gorgeous! I am loving this weather!"

I want to give a shout out to a dear friend! Hi ANN! Hope you have a great weekend catching up! Enjoy your weekend!!