It's happening...

And so it begins. I am rounding third base and heading into the home stretch of my life here in Iowa.

Tonight I have a date with the load of boxes that arrived this morning and the tape dispenser. For the rest of the week it’ll be getting everything packed up and ready for Saturday.

I’m sure as my belongings are sorted, organized, and packed and my apartment begins to look more and more bare and empty, I’ll really begin to reflect on my time served here. I’ll undoubtedly think about how genuinely excited I was to move here for my new job and all the possibilities that came with it. Memories of traveling all across the country will come to mind along with the faces of all the people I’ve met along the way. Some people have been great to know, others not so much. A few I will be glad to stay in touch with, and more than a few that I will be happy to never see or hear from again.

I definitely gained some great professional experience and have had some remarkable successes in terms of delivering results to the team. In addition to some of the great people that I’ve worked alongside, I’ve also been privileged to know some fantastic clients. There are at least a handful that will stay in touch and I’ve gotten a lot of very warm response from almost everyone when they found out about my departure.

On the flip-side however, my personal life has been far from positive here. A few good friends, but not many, and even those that I do connect with are usually wrapped up in other things to really count on regularly.

As far as girls are concerned, I’ve been on many, many first dates here, and not a single one has amounted to anything. Not one. Hard to believe that in my former life outside of Iowa I actually had a reputation as a bit of a heartbreaker and a notorious ladies man. Not here though. I don’t know if there is something in the water or what, but it seems like I must be emitting some kind of repellant or something… “Danger Danger! Keep Away!” So on that score, I am definitely not going to miss this place.

All-in-all this whole move to California will be something of a rebirth for me and after the last few months, a fresh start is exactly what I need…