2 1/2 Weeks!

It's official. I'm 2 1/2 weeks away from my one way ticket to the first day of the rest of my life. I leave for Kauai on May 12th and am currently wrapping up projects at home as well as finishing up my last week of work. Since I made the decision to "go off the grid", I've had a couple of job offers, but I'm confident that this is the step I need to take at this point in my life. I'm excited and nervous all at the same time, but I'm feeling good about everything.

What Happened to my 20's?

So here I am at 29 coaching swimming and wondering what the heck happened to the last 10 years of my life. I spent two awesome years in Chicago with some amazing friends and memories, and earned a BA in Psychology. I came back home and trained for the 2004 Olympic Trials although half heartedly knowing I wasn't in any sort of shape to make a team, I just needed closure for my career. I spent the next year coaching then from 2005-2007 earning my MA in Kinesiology/Sport Management while interning, coaching, and taking care of my dad who received a heart transplant during that time. I stayed on at my last internship as a gym manager and coached and worked both jobs until 2008 until my gym location shut down, but it did allow me to meet some great people in the world of exergaming. In July of 2008 my Grandfather passed away after a month plus of suffering due to horrendous post-op care at the hands of Redlands Community Hospital. He went in for elective hip replacement surgery and came out with 9 bed sores (4 of them to the bone), a double eye infection, and a bladder infection. He ended up going septic from an infection caused by the bed sores. In 2009 the swim team board decided to let go of the head coach who is like a family member to me, so I gave it a few months, and elected to go another direction taking a position in Palm Springs a 90 mile round trip commute. I'm on my 2nd head coach in Palm Springs, watching everyone I know my age get their acts together, and now scratching my head trying to figure out where my 20's went...