I’m going to list some exciting things that have happened to me recently in a sad attempt to hide the fact that I haven’t really gone out to purposefully do something mega exciting.
Well, this first thing is quite exciting. I was contacted about applying for a job in the Caribbean! Yes, really. One day out of the blue there was a message in my inbox from this lovely sounding lady who was looking for someone with my experience for a job in St. Kitts. I thought it was a joke at first. It wasn’t. It was very real. Ooh the excitement! I was going to move to the Caribbean, live there in a wonderful climate, walk on the beach every morning noon and night and swim in the crystal clear ocean just as often. Life would be idyllic and I would live in a small house with wonderful views of the coast and everything would be so relaxed.
The next two nights I was seriously toying with the idea of applying for this job and spent hours online searching for information on what ordinary life in St. Kitts would be like. This was when clouds started gathering over the paradise. Well, for one, I found quite a few photos where it was cloudy in St. Kitts. What?! Cloudy?? In the Caribbean?!? No!! But of course it’s cloudy there at times, but it just wasn’t what I wanted to see. In actual fact I would probably have really embraced the cloudy days as my skin burns to a crisp in about 15 minutes.
But I also found out that there’s nothing much to do on the island and there’s only so much walking on the beach or in nature you can do without going bonkers, and that combined with high prices for everything and the lack of all but basic medical care made me decide against it and drop the idea. Reluctantly. It had been wonderful to be headhunted, it made me feel very good about myself, and as much as moving there (I need to remind myself that first I would have needed to secure the job but that’s a minor detail) would have been an exciting thing to do, I’m quite sure that after a honeymoon period I would have felt stuck there with nothing much to do and that just wouldn't have been good.
It makes you wonder though... what would have happened if I’d made a move, turned a different corner… how interesting it would be to see my parallel lives evolving, one if I’d decided to go for it, another this current live. Like the film Sliding Doors with Gwyneth Paltrow.
Then I went to my book club even though I hadn’t finished the book which just happened to be so miserable that despite several attempts I just couldn’t continue reading it. Funnily enough, when I left home that morning I wasn’t going to go to book club because of that but during the day I got a feeling that I should go so I did, and ended up having a wonderful time. I also told my fellow book clubbers about the above headhunting experience and that my bank has agreed to give me a mortgage and I’m actually looking to buy a home and they thought that there was a lot going on in my life. Putting it like that it did sound like that so I went home that night feeling mighty good about things, my so called boring life included.
Maybe, just maybe, it’s all in my head. At least most of it. A delusion. Maybe my life isn’t in fact quite so uneventful as I thought it was. Well, it kind of is but at least for a while I felt much better about it.
My super exciting hiking holiday (see my blog post about it here) is also getting closer and I’m exercising regularly to make sure that I’m in good physical condition. I’ve surprised even myself with my determination to keep it up. Yes it can be hard at times but afterwards it feels so good and it’s exciting to see how I’m improving.
Remember that pet sitter site from my last post? Their newsletter found its way to my inbox the other day. My first thought: where has this site been all my life? My second thought: this is what I’m going to do on my next holiday (the one after the hiking holiday, whenever that may be). Better yet, I’ve been keeping my eye on the site in case something last minute comes up for Easter, some short assignment to get me out of town for a couple of days would be nice. Some of the house sits on the site are quite long, several months. Imagine if you had a job that you could do from anywhere in the world? You could just move from one house sit to another without needing a permanent home. I could see myself doing that for a while.
And I have been focusing on my chosen three projects from my last post which you of course are doubtful of since it’s been quite a few days since my last post and this blog was one of the projects I was supposed to be focusing on. It may have received the least amount of focus bit it still got some. I really need to work on discipline.
So all in all I think I’ve been doing quite well and am slightly less bored than before. Not bad at all. I still haven’t done anything mega exciting which I’m a bit disappointed about. However, I am looking to buy my very first own home. Now that is exciting. And so very scary too. More about it later.
Have a good and an exciting day!
Well, this first thing is quite exciting. I was contacted about applying for a job in the Caribbean! Yes, really. One day out of the blue there was a message in my inbox from this lovely sounding lady who was looking for someone with my experience for a job in St. Kitts. I thought it was a joke at first. It wasn’t. It was very real. Ooh the excitement! I was going to move to the Caribbean, live there in a wonderful climate, walk on the beach every morning noon and night and swim in the crystal clear ocean just as often. Life would be idyllic and I would live in a small house with wonderful views of the coast and everything would be so relaxed.
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| Image courtesy of Phil Thebault / FreeDigitalPhotos.net |
But I also found out that there’s nothing much to do on the island and there’s only so much walking on the beach or in nature you can do without going bonkers, and that combined with high prices for everything and the lack of all but basic medical care made me decide against it and drop the idea. Reluctantly. It had been wonderful to be headhunted, it made me feel very good about myself, and as much as moving there (I need to remind myself that first I would have needed to secure the job but that’s a minor detail) would have been an exciting thing to do, I’m quite sure that after a honeymoon period I would have felt stuck there with nothing much to do and that just wouldn't have been good.
It makes you wonder though... what would have happened if I’d made a move, turned a different corner… how interesting it would be to see my parallel lives evolving, one if I’d decided to go for it, another this current live. Like the film Sliding Doors with Gwyneth Paltrow.
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| Image by Ian Wilson / Flickr |
Maybe, just maybe, it’s all in my head. At least most of it. A delusion. Maybe my life isn’t in fact quite so uneventful as I thought it was. Well, it kind of is but at least for a while I felt much better about it.
My super exciting hiking holiday (see my blog post about it here) is also getting closer and I’m exercising regularly to make sure that I’m in good physical condition. I’ve surprised even myself with my determination to keep it up. Yes it can be hard at times but afterwards it feels so good and it’s exciting to see how I’m improving.
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| Image courtesy of Ian Kahn / FreeDigitalPhotos.net |
And I have been focusing on my chosen three projects from my last post which you of course are doubtful of since it’s been quite a few days since my last post and this blog was one of the projects I was supposed to be focusing on. It may have received the least amount of focus bit it still got some. I really need to work on discipline.
So all in all I think I’ve been doing quite well and am slightly less bored than before. Not bad at all. I still haven’t done anything mega exciting which I’m a bit disappointed about. However, I am looking to buy my very first own home. Now that is exciting. And so very scary too. More about it later.
Have a good and an exciting day!
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