borticus

For a few months now, I've been saying to myself "something really needs to change" - I'd gotten to a point in my life where I'd fallen into a pattern of wakeup-gotowork-comehome-gotobed, endlessly repeating.

My roommate called me the other day. He's currently back at his parents' place in Montana, recovering from a serious illness. He called to remind me that our lease runs up in November, and that he wasn't going to be renewing it.

When I mentioned this to my mom, she offhandedly mentioned that my brother out in California was also at the end of a lease, but had opted for a month-to-month deal. But hey, wouldn't it be neat if I just packed up and moved to California and we got a new place together?

Wouldn't it be neat indeed....

So, I'm doing it. I spoke with my brother tonight on the phone and covered all the mutual details that needed to be hashed out. All that remains is to work on getting a transfer to my company's office in the LA area, and I should be set to make The Big Change that I've been needing for so long, now.

I'm not going to miss Texas. I didn't realize until today just how much I hate hate hate not being nearer to my family. I also hadn't really realized the rut I'd dug myself into, down here. Even though moving to Texas has so far been one of the best decisions I've made in my life, I have no fear that moving off to California is destined to become just as important and fortuitous.

When negotiating my job transfer (which shouldn't be a problem at all, given my performance and standing w/ my company), I'm going to try and get a Leave Of Absence approved until January 1st, in order to help get settled into my new place. We'll see how that goes... though the transfer itself should be easy enough to arrange, a lengthy LOA is a touchy situation.

So, that's it.

November 15th -- I'm OUTTA here.