On turning 30... plus updates and such

I know I haven't seriously posted in a while. It is not for lack of motivation or me feeling guilty about my diet or lack there of... (although I have been doing ok. Mainly maintaining my weight not so much losing).

The main reason for my lack of an update is that I am officially back to the grind. Since being married I have been doing a lot of stuff. Working freelance retouching and photography off and on, nanny-ing, and other odds and ends type stuff. However, I have been applying for jobs most of the time I have been working freelance and it has been a discouraging and enlightening journey to say the least. Like most things in my life, I have learned that timing is everything. I worry and worry and my patience is sorely tested but in the end, things happen when they are supposed to happen. I have found that to be the case time and time again with things like school, and with marriage, and with my career.

I am so happy and positive and LOVING life right now! This weekend I turn 30. YEP that is right I am going to be turning the dreaded 3-0. I have had mixed feelings about this. For a while I felt a little bummed out. I generally get bummed around my birthday with missing my family and friends in utah and most of all my Dad. Also, I guess growing up... I thought I would be further along in certain areas of my life by the time I turned 30. I wallowed in these thoughts for a while but then I decided that turning 30 means I have a great decade ahead of me! I loved my 20's but I just have a great feeling that my 30's will be just as good if not totally better. Ive been trying to turn around my thinking... and I am thrilled and excited to be turning 30.

We are heading to San Diego tonight. Chad is taking me to Balboa Park and we are staying in a Hotel in the Gas Lamp District which is an old and swanky area of San Diego. I can't wait! stay tuned for pics!