This year is the first year where I have been away from my family for the holidays. Although it is very soothing and quiet sitting here on this patio overlooking the ocean, I am sorry to not have them all by my side being loud and full of laughter...
That said I have spent this holiday season at the beach, working, but still with my toes in the sand every day. I've been surrounded by people from all over the world and am even picking up on a little Japanese since my arrival...I'll let you know how that one turns out.
My co-workers tell me I am finally getting darker, which I laugh about all the time because I considered myself to be pretty tan before I got here...oh well....
This week has brought many surprises...fabulous baked goods from family and friends, amazing sunsets and a captain as a new best friend. I do not have work on New Years Eve or Day, so my plan is to spend as much time out on the boats as possible and hopefully catch the fireworks from the water, maybe even spend the night on one of the boats out in the bay.
It has been cold here...yes cold. I do not know how it happened, but my body has acclimated so quickly that anything close to low 60s feels like a frigid winter day in the mountains...I'm ashamed...it's a little ridiculous.
This new year has made my mind roll out a list of new years resolutions and I have decided to throw them all out the window already. I have decided that a positive change in life should not start on the first day of the year, it should start right away.
That said, I plan to keep any bad habits that I may have and maybe pick up a few good ones along the way...you only live once...or twice...or nine times depending on who you are...
As I write this one of my closest friends is getting ready to embark on his own amazing adventure to another small set of islands in the Pacific. I am absolutely thrilled for him and hope he finds nothing but great adventure and amazing new friends. New Zealand is lucky to have him. I cannot wait for all the stories.
With the wind howling over the mountains and lava fields, I cannot help but think that this adventure, no matter how much I have resented it at times, has been an incredible journey. It has been a change where I have learned so much about myself and about the person I have turned into over the years. I realize more and more that I am very different from the girl that left that little mountain town for the "big city." Although that big city did not turn out to be so big, it was still a great chapter that I look forward to returning to someday. And hey, I have even met a fellow Santa Cruzian here on the Big Island, AND he works for the same company as me... this small world just keeps getting smaller.
I'm not far away and can be back to the mainland in 6 hours if need be, so look out! It's a small world after all...(hopefully you are now singing...you're welcome).
Wishing you well on this clear cool evening.
Climbers keep climbing hard. Travel safely to the mountains and back home.
Spam count, shockingly, still zero...
Aloha,
Be Well,
M.
My new relaxation station is pictured above...15 feet up in a beautiful dead tree that has broken off into the ocean. Whales breaching in the distance, white sand and clear, warm water below. <3
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