Springtime

It's been a while since I wrote. Things have been pretty busy, especially at work. I went to Los Angeles last month for spring break. It was my third time in California, but first time in Los Angeles. I loved it. The hiking there is amazing, you can't beat  the weather, and the ocean is just everything. I can't wait to go back.

I have been working to regain a positive mindset. With things at work being tough after spring break, I was falling into a pattern of complaining and negativity. The past week I have really been working on using my positive affirmations to change my mindset. I already see a difference. We're so close to the end of the school year. This Friday we have a rally downtown at the capital for school funding and our pension fund. The district made us take personal days in order to go, but so many people requested it that school for the kids has been cancelled! Education is the key to everything. One day I hope people in this country realize it.

I still am so grateful to have the opportunity to live here. I used to have to drive over an hour to get to any sort of nature preserve away from the city in Chicago and then it would just be grassland, which is fine, but not the challenge I want and need. Here I can drive 35 minutes to Boulder and have amazing views all around me. I need to remember when times are tough that what I have is what I have been dreaming of since I was 17.

Happy Spring everyone!