In two months it'll be a year since I've posted on this blog. Time, whatever that is anyway, is moving so fast. Or maybe its me. Maybe I've just been moving fast.
Lets brief, shall we?
I moved y'all.
Finally, I have my own place in the lovely state of Texas. Houston to be exact. I'm four months in.
Do I love it?
I love that I moved and actually did something I planned to do.
Nothing better than watching a plan come together.
I've clearly been manifesting for the past 2 years all while learning how to manifest. It's a learn as you go type deal.
Why Houston?
In 2014, I started mentally planning to leave Chicago after graduation. I knew I needed to move but I really didn't know where I needed to go. Then one day something just told me Houston. Call it intuition or the universe or whatever but something put a bug in my ear and that bug said Houston was the place I needed to be.
I came down without a job so I worked a few ride sharing and delivery apps and within two weeks I had been offered a full time job. Which was right on time because about two weeks later my car would be totaled(which had been my only source of income before the job offer). I felt nothing but gratitude even during my perceived misfortune because the way I saw it, although my car had been ruined I still had a home, I had a new job, and I walked away from what could have been a deadly accident. I was going to make the best of the life I was creating for myself! The way I see it, in life things will happen both good and "bad" but no matter where I am in the world I will have to learn to work through these things. I have a new truck(one I have always wanted!), I have a job, I have a home and
I'm learning so much about who I am at my core. I'm spending much more time alone. Its an introvert's dream, truly. I am so much kinder to myself. I'm healing old traumas and I am so excited about the person I am becoming.
If anyone still reads this blog thank you!
I have to live and experience things to have something to write about and sometimes for me I just cant do both simultaneously.
Lets brief, shall we?
I moved y'all.
Finally, I have my own place in the lovely state of Texas. Houston to be exact. I'm four months in.
Do I love it?
I love that I moved and actually did something I planned to do.
Nothing better than watching a plan come together.
I've clearly been manifesting for the past 2 years all while learning how to manifest. It's a learn as you go type deal.
Why Houston?
In 2014, I started mentally planning to leave Chicago after graduation. I knew I needed to move but I really didn't know where I needed to go. Then one day something just told me Houston. Call it intuition or the universe or whatever but something put a bug in my ear and that bug said Houston was the place I needed to be.
Of course life happened year after year and things got in the way that caused me to postpone the move but I knew that whatever happened next for me it wouldn't be happening in Chicago. My lease ended at the end of April 2017. I moved in with my mom for a month and then with one of my sister-friends from July to September. I had been trying to find a job in Houston from Chicago since March and hadn't had any luck. Its hard to plan for interviews in other states while not tipping off your current employer and I only had so many PTO hours. I realized that I had to be all in. I couldn't continue to take the safe route because it wasn't getting me anywhere. I couldn't abandon strategy altogether but I had to trust that I was making the right decision, take a leap and just know that things would work in my favor. I knew I wasn't making enough money to pay my bills and save to move so I applied and was hired on to a higher paying position at my job in Chicago. I basically got a pay raise within the same company. Unbeknownst to them , I wouldn't be in my new position long. Before I accepted the position I already wasn't feeling the company and their unprofessionalism during my transition period from the old position to the new one made it so much easier to not give a fuck about using the permanent job offer as a temporary position. Sometimes, you gotta do what you gotta do. I figured out that I just needed to get about 5 checks from them to have enough money to move. So I worked the job, worked ride sharing apps, continued to apply for jobs and just prepared myself for my move. I even changed my number to a Houston area code, I had to believe that I was already in Houston. Once August came around I knew it was time. I found an apartment in Houston, applied and was approved. Once I got the approval I put my two weeks in at the gig and I was on my way. Well, of course when we plan, God/The Universe laughs. Hurricane Harvey came and it set me back about 3 weeks but that shit wasn't stopping me. I ended up leaving at the end of September and on September 25th I moved in to my new home.
I came down without a job so I worked a few ride sharing and delivery apps and within two weeks I had been offered a full time job. Which was right on time because about two weeks later my car would be totaled(which had been my only source of income before the job offer). I felt nothing but gratitude even during my perceived misfortune because the way I saw it, although my car had been ruined I still had a home, I had a new job, and I walked away from what could have been a deadly accident. I was going to make the best of the life I was creating for myself! The way I see it, in life things will happen both good and "bad" but no matter where I am in the world I will have to learn to work through these things. I have a new truck(one I have always wanted!), I have a job, I have a home and
I am thriving!
I'm learning so much about who I am at my core. I'm spending much more time alone. Its an introvert's dream, truly. I am so much kinder to myself. I'm healing old traumas and I am so excited about the person I am becoming.
If anyone still reads this blog thank you!
I have to live and experience things to have something to write about and sometimes for me I just cant do both simultaneously.
So if you're rocking with me, I appreciate your patience and understanding.
Stay tuned because I'm working on some great things,
I promise, I'll write,
Tailah
- 11:49 AM
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