My One Year Anniversary!

Writer’s block again? NOPE. I’ve just been extremely busy with getting my business going and needed to work through a couple of emotional phunks.

I have been in this city for a year now and feel very settled in. Recently I was asked by a new acquaintance if I had made any friends since I moved and the immense smile that spilled onto my face caused me to reflect on the tight group of loving friends that I have in Chicago. I feel very blessed to have attracted the cream of Chicago’s society. I want to take this moment to acknowledge an amazing individual, my dear friend, Adam McLain. Adam was and is a powerful instrument, not only in my life but everyone else that knows him. He is a gateway to the cream of inspiring like-minded individuals that live in this city. His positive, loving character is so contagious that you want to be around his energy all the time.

My business is finally taking flight and I hired my first two employees a couple of weeks ago. It’s not easy to pick up and leave a west coast lifestyle, especially the cream of San Diego and Puerto Vallarta but God- it’s REALLY EXCITING to see what tomorrow brings. It can be a very hard and sorrowful day OR it can be the best day of YOUR Life! I would have never imagined 18 months ago that I would be A) living on Lake Shore Drive and B) owning my own company. More importantly, I would have NEVER, in a million years, imagined that it would take the loss of the greatest love of my life to have such an extraordinary life. So many ask why the hell would I leave San Diego and my work in Puerto Vallarta to start all over in Chicago? My youngest brother Randy of eighteen years old committed suicide by a gunshot wound to his head on August 25th 2008 around 1p. The day of his funeral I offered my Mother to do her hair and she said she hadn’t washed it since Randy’s death. I stepped into the shower with my Mother and washed her hair. Five minutes later my nephew Noah climbs into the shower with us butt-naked and asks that I wash his hair too. That was the moment I decided to move back home after eleven years. I don’t want to miss the next opportunity to wash my loved one’s hair.

I miss my brother so very, very much and I feel extremely blessed to be his sister, to be my father and mother’s daughter, to be an aunt… to be your friend. Thank you and MAKE IT A GREAT DAY! It was created just for you :-)

p.s. To my friends in San Diego & Puerto Vallarta, I miss and love you all. Thank you for CONSTANTLY being in contact and for all the special trips many of you have taken to Chicago to be with me. I will visit you soon when the winter has settled in.