I thought it was a good time for me to give an update as it has been over 7 months since this post recreated quite a stir – a stir of supportive fans and stir of emotions on my end. I can not believe it’s the end of July. I can not say enough how far I’ve come since Jan 1st and how blessed I feel about all that has been created. This year has been full of what I like to call small miracles. For one – right when I got back from Florida after New Years my friend Andrea (best friend from high school) moved into my studio apartment with me for the month of January. She too had broken up with her boyfriend in late December who she was living with and she needed somewhere to call home while she figured out how to stand on her own two feet again. We both felt absolutely blessed to have each other that month – that month that I knew was going to be a very hard, emotional, and lonely month. Instead, it turned into both Andrea and I supporting each other and keeping each others spirits lifted. We spent 4 weeks side by side and it was an incredible transition out of our relationships and back into ourselves. Fate indeed.
Shortly after Feb rolled around my travels began – I headed out to San Francisco for work, down to Florida to visit my family, out to Chicago to visit friends, to Philly, to Rhode Island, out to San Diego, and then back to San Francisco. It’s been a whirlwind. My first trip out to SF was pretty special – As fate would have it, a very good friend of mine (we dated many moons ago when we were abroad on Semester at Sea) who you’ve all seen on PJ a number of times now – Kendrick – broke up with his very serious live in girlfriend early in the year. Kendrick lives in San Diego and is from outside of SF. What I’m getting at is we planned a fantastic weekend together in San Francisco back in Feb – it was amazing to re-connect with him and just the distraction we both needed. Long story short, he ended up visiting me in NYC for 5 days in April, and then as fate would have it once again I was out in San Diego for work in early May and was able to spend the weekend with him there. This is someone who I hadn’t seen in 5 years – 5 years! And we’ve now spent 3 amazing trips together in 3 short months. All I can say is God gives you what you need when you need it most. I am so blessed to have a friend like him and so excited for our upcoming trip to Yosemite over Labor Day weekend!
Let’s back up for a minute - During my trip to Florida back in Feb – the trip that Lauren (one of my besties from High School) accompanied me on – her and I devised a plan to move to CA. We were both at points in our lives where the sky was the limit and we had no strings attached to the cities we were living in (she was in Chicago) so we pretty much had one serious conversation about it while sunning ourselves by the pool at my parents condo and moved full stream ahead. The pieces of the puzzle all started aligning. I always wanted to make the move, but knew it would motivate me more to do it with a friend – welp here was that friend, ready and willing. My friends and family gave me their blessings and the rest is history. From coordinating with our jobs and current leases, going out to visit the city, and going apartment hunting out in SF, it all came together so fast. So excited to say we just made the move out to SF this weekend and could not be more excited to embark on this journey together.
You might be wondering if my ex, Jeremy who used to grace this blog many times knows about my move or if I’ve talked to him or seen him or if he had anything to do with it – considering did I mention he’s from SF and him and I had talked about moving back here together? Welp, the honest truth is Jeremy and I didn’t communicate in any way for 3 full months. We even detached from our social media relationships – no more following each other on Twitter, Tumblr, no more FB friends, nada. I made the conscience decision back in January that I didn’t want to do the “small talk” thing. We had dinner one last time to talk things through and went our separate ways. It was the healthiest (and maybe even the hardest) decision we could have made, but it made it so much easier to move on with our current lives. I was happily surprised to hear from him on my birthday in April which was soon after he found out I was making the move and he wanted to catch up, so we had dinner in mid-may. It was great to see him and for now I’m going to leave it at that. Are we friends? Are we more? I’m not really sure how I feel about it all, but what I do know is he has moved back to SF as well and so, the rest for now, is unwritten.
And then there’s Boston – and I don’t mean the city. Boston is a nickname for a great guy who has graced my life since mid-March. It’s funny how things work – just months before I move out west I meet a great guy from the east coast, a great guy that I had a lot in common with – he is Irish, French- Canadian, Catholic, from New England, Boston sports fan, smart, athletic, generous, funny, adorable, (we had amazing you know what), his parents even had a place in FLA near my parents, and he treated very well - pretty much the whole package. We’ve had a lot of fun and spent a lot of time together over the past few months and I will miss him so so much. Again, all I can say is I feel very blessed to have had the experience and the rest will have to remain unwritten.
And then there’s miss Heather who moved to Philly last year, who is moving back to NYC exactly two weeks after I move out west! Ah life. So happy for her though, she just signed on a place in the west village, will be working for Madwell, and she will be so happy to be back in the big apple - I can’t wait to visit her back home AND to top it off she already booked her flight out to SF to stay with yours truly for 5 days next month!
So all of that brings me to this conclusion – with a positive attitude anything is possible. If you pursue your dreams they can and will come true. As I stated back in January – positive thoughts and a positive mind create amazing outcomes. We have the power to create what ever we want in life and no matter how hard the hard times are, we can still come out of it, happy – happy and better off to have learned from the experience. I’ve leaned such an incredible amount about myself the past 6 months. Would I have thought 6 months ago I would be moving to San Francisco and I’d be as happy and fulfilled as I am right now? There is a plan for all of us – we just need to follow our hearts and have faith that the right doors will open when the time is right. My friends, remember to keep smiling because I can promise you, everything’s gonna be allright. And on that note….here’s to Bob Marley, summer nights, friends (new & old), family, love, and life - here’s to life - and my next chapter in life - San Francisco!
Xx Jenny
