Showing posts with label Pulling the Plug. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pulling the Plug. Show all posts

Friday, January 4, 2008

High Rise


2008 will be a year of moving out of my dusty earthquake cracked once elegant high end high rise apartment with a view of Catalina island to a cozy California cottage bungalow closer to the beach where my new friends live and thrive. Wow that was a mouth full.
The decision to move was easy. Finding a new home is frustrating. LA is expensive and I'm not the only one who enjoys beach living in a hip neighborhood.
One way or another I'll move away from this concrete jungle of carbon  laden single occupant vehicles. Maybe I'll buy a new smart car, if I can fit in it. Well my medication is starting to kick in so the words and thoughts are turning dull so I'd better stop writing while I'm not too far behind in my angst.
Ciao



Saturday, December 8, 2007

Pull the Plug


Today its cool, cloudy and murky. The kind of weather I enjoy as a respite from the myriad of sunny days. To some this may sound as if I'm a bit off kilter shunning sunny weather in the heart of winter. Well I am and I do. The reasons I'm no longer a fan of the sun these days are too many and very boring to detail in today's journal.

Cool murky days also make me feel melancholy so I'll share something a little bit intimate and personal but not too deep. I've had a good run here in Los Angeles over the nearly three decades I've tooled around this cool town. But I've overstayed my welcome and its time to move on with my new life. 

A major decision I'm married to is to move to a new environment far away from this once  glitzy paradise which quietly crept up to become a concrete jungle resembling other cities many of us left.  

My search is for a quieter, smaller, gentler less congested town I can call my own, find my tribe, start anew and thrive. Ah, isn't that a dream many of us have. I wish this were a unique wish but I guess I'm more ordinary than I'd like to think I am.

Well, I now have the time and inclination to pull the plug and move on but not yet the courage. I'm trying to muster up enough gumption to act and its not as easy as it seems.

As a web surfer I've conducted all the research I need to to make my decision. I've narrowed the locations down to three interesting places - all for different reasons. At this point I just need encouragement. So if yo have any please let me know.

Bye for now.
Abba