Starting Things Off

San Francisco was one of those life goals; I had this gut feeling I needed to be there.  It was something about the city, about how I felt when I visited friends.  And on New Year's Eve 2010, I made it.  A year and a half later, I'm now living across the Pacific Ocean in Shanghai, China.  It's a ball of crazy anxiety and excitement all rolled into one.

That ball got rolling soon after I got laid off from my last job.  They say these things are usually blessings in disguise and they couldn't be more right.  It wasn't easy though.  When Shanghai was a decision waiting to happen, I was made an offer for my dream job.  And I had to walk away.      

So here I am starting a blog, thinking this may be my outlet in a foreign everything.  And I can't tell you the amount of mental roadblocks I've had to overcome to actual sit and write this.  I kept thinking -- Why would someone read my blog?  Am I important enough to have a blog?  Will people judge what they read?  What will they think?  But I'm taking the plunge and sharing my journey -- even if my mom's my only reader.