What a journey I have had in the last 5 months.... I decided to take a very nice and long break from the city and go back to California for a while. First I stopped by Utah to visit some friends and family. Utah must have been unhappy with my presence because it decided to greet me with a crazy wind storm that knocked out power for pretty much my whole visit. Two of the friends that I saw are both married now, in fact I even stayed with one for 2 days and she has been one of my bestfriends since high school. It is such a trip that most of my good friends from school are married now.... and well I'm only going to be 21 in a few weeks. I just couldn't imagine settling down yet. Non the less, they all seem to be happy with their situations, so of course I am happy for them.
I returned to CA just about 2 weeks before Christmas so I didn't miss out on any of the holiday baking and cheer. Actually, the holidays at my mothers house this year were a bit intense. After getting married in May, building a house over the summer and moving into the place in October with new husband and two teenagers... everyone seemed to be a bit uptight. Don't get me wrong, it was lovely to come home to a much bigger home than I grew up in with a room of my own and all, but I left NY to get rid of stress, not be in the central system of it. After Christmas and New Years things seemed to calm down a bit. I started doing all different kinds of yoga regularly, started a painting and finally lessons for learning to play the piano. I had many play dates and craft days with my 4 year old nephew; even got to go to his birthday party that looked like spongebob threw up on everything, even the cupcakes.
I'd say the most eventful thing to happen was our fun-packed first ever Kwanburn family vacation. My stepdad has 3 kids and a son-in-law, and my mom has 4 kids. Also our wonderful family friend Connie came so that made a whopping 11 of us. We had a huge ship with unlimited amounts of frozen yogurt and New York styled pizza. Off ship we were able to walk on white sandy beaches along side turquoise crystal clear ocean. Dolphin, manatee, monkey, lemur, iguana, crocodile... and many other animal encounters. We all had our fair share of cute/hot/funny/weird tour guides and adventures along with them. But most importantly, we all got to know each other so much better and I know I can't hardly wait for the next vaca with one of the craziest families in town.
Heading back to New York only 2 days after we got back from our cruise was an exciting thought, but running off of zero sleep and ridiculous time changes made it slightly hard to be enthusiastic. When I left in December, I couldn't wait to get out of the city. I thought I would never want to come back, that I could easily go back to my plain life in California and go to school and focus on another profession. But truth be told, the moment I landed in New York, my heart was overwhelmed with joy. I was back in my beloved city, the city that understands my craziness. The place where I can be whoever I want to be without being looked at weird. I can talk about fashion and people don't think I'm speaking a different language. The truth is, once you become apart of this world, its hard to leave it. Not because of the money (cause I'm sure not making that right now) but its exciting and different, its loud and crazy and the reasons why a lot of people hate, are the reasons why I love it. Sometimes we try to hold onto old memories that we thought made us happy, mad or sad, but the cool thing about life is there are always new memories to be made. When one door closes another one opens... or is waiting to be opened.
NYC I'm back.
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