March Madness.

Well well well, time for an update. I realize I haven't been consistent with updating this, but that's no to say I don't have random ideas in my head of blogs or stories I want to write, because I get them all the time! But for one reason or another don't end up writing.

So here goes my update. San Diego circa March 2009. A year ago, where was I? Living in a once nice- but turned crappy two bedroom apartment in Hollywood by myself because my roommate spur of the moment decided to move back to Michigan, and excited to move into my awesome and oohh so missed at times lovely large, yet over prices $1200 a month studio in Hollywood. I was job sick, but now look back and realize how lucky I was to have even had a job in the record industry considering that way too many good people were let go. I was in a weird, loosing touch with some of my LA friends stage, but loving that one of my best friends from high school was coming into town, and I had just met a guy that I eventually fell wayy to deep for, only to be heartbroken once again.

Today...i'm actually realizing that living in SD is making me pretty content. At times I miss LA terribly and the city hustle and bustle of it all, but just like Boston, it kind of all came and went in a blur. At the end of the day, it's only 2 hours away. San Diego is a lovely city. People are genuinely really open and friendly, especially the native, who now more so than ever tend to have a pride about them (myself included), because so many people are implants these days! I constantly wonder if people were always implants to this city, and perhaps I just See it now because before this just a kid the last time I lived here. Overall, the city is refreshing and comfortable. San Diego has this fresh air smell too it, I know it sounds corny, but it really does...and sometimes when I leave for work in the morning, or i'm driving down the 5 freeway, i totally stop for a second and have a moment, a comforting moment, that the smell I grew up with is once again here.

I'm really enjoying my job at La Jolla Playhouse. The people are awesome, (not AS awesome as the last set of work peoples), but definitely up in the awesome, I got lucky I work here, category.
I feel rewarded at the end of the day, and am proving to myself I AM good at what I always thought and knew I could do at a professional level.

Other than my day in and out routines, I'm staying busy, I've met a handful of great new girlfriends and have re-surfaced with some old ones, so the combination of the two and the openness of the cities mentality, has really brought to me a stability that I need. It's also been nice to be closer to some of my family. This past weekend, at my cousins Bar-Mitzvah, I realized I do have a pretty cool family, and I hope that I can try on my own to bring us all a little closer. Sometimes that's the "kids" responsibility as we get older.

I've also really want to be more active down here. SD is such an active lifestyle type of city, i'm proud of myself for taking on the large Cowles Mtn hike, and i've realized I really enjoy hiking, I'd also (still) like to get a bike, and make it to the beach every weekend. I think when I move to the west side, my beach active-ness will increase.

Which brings me to my next sort of surreal thought. I'm condo shopping. And i'd like to tap my own shoulder for a second, and give myself props, because I never thought in a million years I would be able to buy a place at 26 (my goal was by 30), but with the real estate market so low, it's actually giving people with moderate incomes and not amazing but good enough savings account to buy. It was a thought that after researching it more is about to become a reality, and i'm so excited. I start looking this weekend. I will pretty much be broke as a joke, afterwards, but I think having my own place will make me really feel like "this is where I live now," and i'm also pretty much obsessed with HGTV shows now. I hope and pray it all works out.

I'm still actively going to the ROCK church every Sunday and I signed up to serve in the Foster Care ministry. So basically for 2 hours a week, I will mentor a teen in need. Pretty cool. Sometimes I feel guilty not being involved more, but at the end of the day you gotta pick and choose what works for you, I think the Foster Care thang will work out just great for me. Finding spirituality again has been awesome.

The dating life. Should I just stop here? ha. It's pretty much non existent...still. I mean I go on dates, but for whatever reason it just doesn't go past that. I've heard so many theories on it, especially from the bartender who I was venting to the other night, but at the end of the day...I'm going to be myself from point one. I guess maybe the key really is to stop looking. Man, looking can be exhausting sometimes. And it's not like I actively "look" but just working yourself up about being single can get to a girl sometimes. I'm going to try to just focus 100 percent on me, and forget about it for awhile. I think whats really happening is He is sparing me from meeting people other than the One. Hope so.

Are you bored yet of my update? That's pretty much what's been goin on. I think it takes time to really transition into a new place, even if it is your own home town. The only thing that remains awesome for the time being, is the amazing Mexican food in San Diego, man...I seriously laugh at the people who are satisfied with La Salsa and think Baja Fresh is real Mexican food. It doesn't even begin to compare.