Chasing dreams.....

[Kim]

Have any of you just chased a dream/goal and   "caught" it?

I'm thinking of doing that. I spent the weekend at my aunt's cottage on the water and with my aunt you can't casually mention ANYTHING without her being like a DOG WITH A BONE!! She knows I have always wanted to live in Ohio (again) and by the Lake (as in Lake Erie) so she points out all cottages either FOR SALE and she knows the inside scoop of who MIGHT be selling. I know quite a few people but EVERYONE knows my aunt so they will know me soon enough....LOL! Well, as I was leaving, one of my friends there took me to a restaurant on my way home. We had been jetskiing all day and were starved. Well....I ABSOLUTELY "fell in love" with this small town the restaurant was in. (Cottages are 20 minutes away in basically a "nothing" area....BUT...theres a LAKE so I was definitely considering it.) Well,  I half heartedley researched that town a little and found that it is VERY inexpensive rent wise to live there and I could easily get a job so I'm SERIOUSLY considering it. WHAT is holding me back? My dad, my (big) dog, my daughter, and my client. AND the "fear" that by relocating AGAIN, it will set me back financially like LAST time when I moved HERE!

Well, going up there again NEXT weekend and depending on how many days I have, I may take a half a day just walking around that town and trying to get a FEEL for it and what it would be like to live there.

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[Wayne Goodwin]

Love it ....

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yea,it is cool

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I've seen and done so much more with my life than I ever imagined..and I ain't done yet.

[Merry]

Whatever you decide to do, I wish you the best!!! I bought a home again after many years and I used to let that overwhelm me but I'm learning to dance with it. It was very hard at first adjusting to having a four bedroom home but then I turned the largest bedroom into a studio and the dining room is for business and ok the dust bunnies are running the joint but I am falling in love with the daily struggle of living here. If you don't take a chance then the dream will never come true by default.

[Kim]

Thanks everyone for your encouraging words and "food for thought".....my aunt said the other day, if it feels right to you, GO FOR IT!! Every time I pass the border, I have a feeling I can't describe like I am in the RIGHT PLACE. I never feel quite the same thing when I see "welcome to Pennsylvania". I feel a dedication to my hometown but as far as an all over peace and contentment...not so much. The main thing is to find a job. I probably could stay at my aunts cottage until I found a place to live IF it came to that. I QUESTION the sanity of moving in a place like that as winter is approaching because I surely won't get moved up there before THEN.

[Kim]

I made a SORT OF decision on this.....I decided to WAIT. I mean...I will be up in that area every weekend I CAN for the rest of the summer but moving there is going to take some money, planning and a JOB. I can easily have a job TOMORROW with my previous company but when you work through an agency, what's here today could be GONE tomorrow and if I move there, I need to have something more stable. I don't want to be fighting to keep my electric on all winter. I have no reason to quit the job I have right now. I have been trying to finish an online course for a couple years now and figure I should really work my butt off to complete it so I can have that part time at least.

But it is a dream that I will keep my eyes on!!

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Having the dream means you're alive.

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You could spend this whole winter making plans to make it work to move in the spring, and watching for job openings in that area. Good luck which ever way you go, you are still young Kim.