Settling in...?

So it has been 5 weeks now. I am working fairly consistently but definitely not full time. But there is a huge part of me that is starting to miss home a whole lot. I miss my friends, I miss my family, and I miss my job. My best friend had a really bad week and I wasn’t able to be there for her… thanks mom for picking up the slack for me. I miss the city. One of my friends told me I "just need to relax, city slicker". And believe me, I am trying but as most of you know, I am not very good at that. 

But really its more than that. I came down because I wanted a change and I wasn’t ready to marry my job yet and I wanted adventure. Now all I think about is my job and wish I had something full time here. Maybe I am just not cut out for this beach town lifestyle. Don’t get me wrong, it is beautiful and amazing but I just don’t want to get lost in the surf and the parties. I still need to have direction and need to be making progress. And I just haven’t figured out if I will be able to make that happen here or not.

Maybe I am just having a mini freak out, and in another 2 weeks I’ll never want to come home. But I left a lot of security back in Seattle, and it doesn’t matter who you are, that’s scary.

I’ve been meeting a lot of really amazing people though. Everyone is so nice and so loving. And I’ll be FINALLY learning to play my guitar thanks to two beautiful ladies down here!

I did meet with the owner of Rincon Vacation last week. Come October they will need someone full time to do reception and reservations for their company. Go to the website. It’s awesome. I would get to help people all of their travel reservations and upsell them better packages. Sounds pretty perfect. I really want to do something in the travel and tourism industry, so this could be exactly what I need. Plus he said they would send me to do all of the adventures before I start so that I would be able to speak to that and get to know the vendors for each thing (zip lining, bio bay, kayak tours, etc.). Bummer, right? I won’t know anything until mid September, but cross your fingers for me!

I have been terrible about taking photos, but here are a few!

My mom and sister sent me down this for Izzy. She has to chase it around to get her kibble out of it! It is quite entertaining. 

Typical sunset from the beach across from our apartment.

When I went to pick Mat up from the airport 2 weeks ago, we ended up driving around the whole island. I took the top route to get him and we took the bottom route home.

And had lunch here.

I am also happy to say that I have lost 10lbs since starting with Team Beachbody on Shakeology and Insanity. Now keep in mind, I have totally slacked off with my workouts since I moved. So, I’m gonna say 10 in less than 2 months is ok with me! Back on the horse again and moving forward.

Big shout out to my Mom, Sister and cousin Erika who are starting their Challenge Group this week! Let’s kick some butt ladies!

For those of you who haven’t wanted to join one of my Challenge Groups, I am doing a 7 Day Challenge next month that will be a Shakeology and Clean Eating challenge. I’ll send you a 7 day supply of Shakeology and you’ll commit clean eating to go with it. That way all of you who are interested in it will have to opportunity to test it out! It’s going to be awesome so keep it in mind and I’ll keep you posted. 

ALSO please please please go donate to my charity: water page! I'll be doing this once a year and I really want my first one to be a success. I know so many of you out there know how important water quality is to people around the world.