Stressful Times

We're down to the wire now. I board a plane for PDX next Sunday, and my W+K tenure officially begins the next day. This past week flew by, and I can't imagine the next week will be any different. It's difficult to wrap my head around the fact my time remaining in the CO is down to eight days. We arrived a little over seven years ago, and we have grown to LOVE it here. I honestly started wondering yesterday if I was making a mistake, if I shouldn't have pursued W+K and instead I should have just been content at Gates so we would be able to stay where we love to live. 

But the truth is, W+K is where I need to be. I need to be in advertising, my life-long passion and obsession. If I truly want to maximize my talents I need to be in the fast-paced ad world. I've worked in other industries, including engineering and manufacturing, but it's in advertising where I am willing to give my back and my heart. 

Chanel and I had a terrible night last night. She is under a ton of stress, and I have been very self-absorbed as we've prepared for our move. She will have it tough while I am away. She'll be able to handle it no problem, but I hate the fact she has to keep up her responsibilities and take on many of mine as well while I am away.

We put in an offer on a new home in Vancouver. The builder countered with very minimal changes to our offer, but we decided to not accept their counter offer. It was a nice enough home, but we checked out the neighborhood on Google Maps and were not in love with what we saw. Plus, we decided we need to be patient and not buy the first house we can simply because it's convenient. We haven't even seen the home in person!

I get 30 days of corporate housing, so I'm covered for a while while our family stays in CO and sells the house. I'll be spending all my free time checking out neighborhoods and homes, both to rent and to purchase. 

I have a lot of emotions right now. A bit of sorrow to say goodbye to what we currently believe is the best place in America to live, excitement to live in a new place that we hope is just as amazing as CO, nervousness/anticipation/excitement over starting a new job at the best ad agency in the world, sadness about leaving my family for 30+ days...lots of thoughts and feelings. But this is the kind of stuff we've wanted to do for some time now, so I'm learning to love the moment. We are truly blessed to have this amazing opportunity in front of us. Now we have to make the most of it.