The Mothership!

This week my mom came to visit for a few days and it was really really nice, I've been here for, according to my countdown app, 87 days. That's the longest I've been away from home, ever. 

I've been doing alright, I get anxious because I have to fix things by myself now and I don't have a stable place to live, per say, I miss my family and my mom, but overall I've been doing really well.

I did not realize, though, how much I missed my mom until she came here. It was heavy. 

I wish she could have stayed longer, forever probably she should just stay in my backpack or something, but seeing her for the three days she was here was awesome.

It was a really nice relaxing time, we went a lot of places too, which was awesome! We went to Japantown and Burlingame (which is almost a bigger version of downtown Edmonds in Washington) and ate yummy food and it was really nice. 

We went to a place called The Melt, which is a grilled cheese restaurant. Grilled. Cheese. Restaurant. It was so good. 

We also went to a restaurant called Crepevine. I got the shrimp Thai crepe and it was delicious. 

And of course FroYo.

Something I could probably eat every day. 

Also this

Cute. 

I also made a friend!

I had a great time with my mom, I'm very excited to be visiting Seattle in a couple weeks to see my whole family. 

I miss my mom a lot, but I know I'll be alright, but she came at a really good time too, I needed a little piece of home for a bit and to take a break and just be with her. 

I will close with this:

Goodnight little shrimpies~

Getting Out Of My Comfort Zone

Moving was something I had wanted to do for a very long time, I felt very in limbo about my life, especially once I finished beauty school. Being in a long distance relationship was hard, not having a job was hard, not wanting to live at home was hard, moving away from home is hard and I just let myself be miserable in my room for a year instead of doing what I wanted to do, because I was overpowered by the fear of being on my own and being away from my family. 

Finally at the beginning of the year my mom gave me two weeks to decide what I was going to do, whether it was going to be me putting on big girl panties and finding a job in Seattle, or moving to San Francisco to be with Jesse and be happy but far away.

I decided to move. It was a hard decision and it was hard and scary to tell my family about it, but I was so relieved that they were all so supportive and understood what I needed to do. 

So, it was time to move! Jesse came up to Seattle and helped me gather my things and be my shoulder to cry on when I started freaking out about the decision I had made. He was so helpful and I'm so thankful to have someone so wonderful as him in my life.

The drive was long and tiring and emotional but finally I was in San Francisco, somewhere I had wanted to be for over a year.

My friend Sam was gracious enough to let me stay with her and keep my stuff in her little studio apartment style room, since Jesse still lives at home and I didn't want to overstay my welcome with his mother. 

But before I moved in there my mom came down to help me get settled. I was so happy to have her there with me to help me figure out every thing and give me good advise about what to do. 

We also visited a cool oddities shop she's wanted to visit for a really long time!

Once I got settled at Sam's and became best friends with her kitties I buckled down and tried to find a job and followed up with all the places mom and I had visited and dropped off résumés. 

I had a couple interviews but I ended up getting the job at Starbucks!

I'm loving life here in SF. I miss Seattle and the weather there, and my family, but I'm very excited about things to come in the future. 

I'm very excited to be moving to Arizona soon with Jesse, and I'm so thankful that we're lucky enough to have his father helping us with housing, because that was my biggest stress, it's happening sooner than I expected, but it's going to be really good for us and I'm excited to have my own space again.