Making home a little homier

For those who talked to me over the past weekend, probably heard me cry, or be negative, and just not be my normal, happy-g0-lucky self. Adjusting to a new place has been some what of a wake up call so far. It feels like college all over again, except for sharing a dorm. The putting yourself out there part is exactly the same and I hate to say it, but I had been complacent my last years in college. I had the best friends in the world and liked how things were going enough to not change.

After a few days of mopping around, I decided to take some advice of a good friend of mine:

"also, just a nugget of living on your own advice: set habits from the start. it's all about you now. and you get to set the trajectory of how you wanna live your day to day. so if that means that you go for a run every morning at 5 AM in some really cool place of Charlotte then do it. or if that means that before you go to sleep you'll fill your nothing book with some nugget of the day that changed your life. do your thing the way that we always say we are gonna do our thing but don't necessarily follow through on."

I've decided to act on this advice and my new living space, my home. Making this new town, my town. Making this new people, my friends. It's up to me. No one is going to do it for me now as much as I would like to.

So what did I do this week? I finally am 85% unpacked. I called friends and family and talked about the positives. I visited my classroom for the first time. I went for a run in my new neighborhood. As rough as those hills were to run on for the first time ever, it's about me getting used to the new normal. I spent time with my 1st grade team and planned our goals and got to know some of the girls in the same boat as me. I explored some local coffee shops and restaurants in my area. And I think I just realized, everything will come together eventually. It just takes baby steps.

So here's to setting a routine that makes me happy and adjusting my mindset on this new city of mine.