It has been a very long THREE MONTHS (wait, almost four?!) since my last post. I never intended to be away from my blog for that long. To my (few) dedicated readers, I’m sorry for the long hiatus, but let me explain why I’ve been away.
At the very end of February, we moved to Virginia. This was not necessarily an unexpected move, but it happened fast and much earlier than we anticipated. The week we arrived, I immediately started looking for work, anxious to locate the same type of tribe that I’d luckily fallen into during our short time in Florida. With Norfolk being our first real duty station and Brett’s assignment aboard the USS Harry S. Truman, I knew he would be spending about the same amount of time at sea as he would be on shore and that it would be important for me to get established quickly.
I found my new yoga home at GUD Yoga and nearly immediately started teaching at the YMCA (again). Beyond yoga, I was seeking something more. I’m not sure I even knew at the time what I was looking for, but I knew that teaching four classes per week would not be enough to keep me sane with the impending sea schedule.
A distant friend, Amanda, reached out to me on Facebook one night in mid-March to tell me that a friend of hers had recently posted about an open position at her tech startup. Amanda said she wasn’t sure why she felt compelled to share this job posting with me (honestly the last time we talked was four years ago around the time Brett and I had gotten married), but that she just had a feeling it could be something I would be interested in.
Flash forward a few months, and let this story be a lesson to you: LISTEN TO YOUR INTUITION. THERE’S A REASON WE EXPERIENCE IT. Amanda’s suggestion led me to a full-time remote position as a Training Manager at Invisible Technologies. I’ve been happily (and feverishly) working on building training systems for our contractors all over the world and my eyes have been opened to an entirely new professional universe outside of public education.
My heart is soaring on this front. Not only do I have the incredible privilege of teaching yoga to all kinds of wonderful folks (like I honestly can’t even believe I get paid to do that), but I also now have a full-time job that will travel with me no matter where the Navy takes us. I have a career that is mobile and will allow me to contribute to my family income in a real way. I stepped off the path I was on and have ventured far, far into something new and unknown.
Other things in my life have been thrown out of orbit, however. I’m hanging onto yoga + remote job + being a married person by my fingernails and I have struggled to find my center again. I’ve struggled to maintain my personal yoga practice outside of teaching. I’ve struggled to maintain healthy eating habits. I’ve struggled to keep up with my running schedule and appointments and errands and running a household and keeping three pets alive (seriously I’ve killed at least five potted plants in four months) and going to bed at a decent hour and flossing, for Pete’s sake. Things have fallen off this wagon and I’m slowly picking them back up again. Thankfully, I know how to recover because this isn’t the first time my life has been thrown out of whack (and it sure as hell won’t be the last #thankyoumilitary).
This is a really long way of saying that I haven’t been on my blog in a bit because honestly y’all, the eye strain is real and most workdays I can’t bear to look at my computer for another minute.
I know, I know… I’ll start writing more on the weekends.