Wow, It's been a WHILE!
So a lot has changed in the past year and a half-ish? I quit my job (which I was blissfully miserable at for far too long), moved to a new town (from a city I was blissfully miserable in for far too long), been diagnosed with an under active thyroid (in which I was blissfully miserably living with for years prior). On top of all these new changed I managed to fall flat on my butt physically, emotionally, and financially all in a period of 10 months. "How the hell did you manage that?" Well, dear reader, let me explain...
So the preverbial ball that got all this rolling was when I saw my good friend from high school post on her Facebook that she was moving to Nelson and starting as a head stylist at what seemed to be a great new fun salon. I commented on her status the typical "congrats" but, with my schooling in aesthetics and my constant look for getting out of my Dispatch job, I jokingly asked "Do you guys need and aesthetician?" Her response was "OF COURSE AND YOU HAVE THE JOB IF YOU WANT IT"... Kay... wait... WHAT just happened? So I read it again "You have the job if you want it!"
Thoughts went flying through my head... You see it has been a dream of mine to move to Nelson since I was in grade 12 (my family and I went to visit the local college because it was one that I wanted to apply to and the moment I stepped foot in the town, I fell in love with it. If you don't know what Nelson BC is about, google it... it's pretty well known for a lot of things). I debated it for about a month and just after the new year (2013) I went to visit my friend for a week. I met a lot of new people and really nice people. When I returned home, I realized that Nelson was "where I was supposed to be" and fast forward 4 months, I had quit my job packed up all my belongings and was off to my new life in BC!
I struggled a lot in my first month here, close friends were going through a lot of issues back home and when I normally would have been there in person to comfort them I was left comforting them via Facebook, text message or Skype. I also wasn't financially getting anywhere I should have been. The first two weeks at the Salon I was shorted about 75 bucks on my first check and was pretty much called a thief and a lier from their "bookkeeper" when I told her about it (who her sister fully admits was a "fucking idiot"). That from the start should have been the red light that... this was all going to be heading down a rather steep slope.
In my first two weeks here I knew I wasn't going to be able to go on like I was at the salon (the owners weren't willing to put any money into promoting the aesthetics part and I had no money to do it myself, and if I did, I sure wasn't going to be working the shitty commission that was offered any was that's neither here nor there). My friend had also left the salon and found a job someplace else. So not wanting to be struggling I set out to find another full time job that would allow me to work in the salon on my days off. In rolls my first min wage job I had in about 8 years. I am not going to say anything bad about this job, there were some ups and downs but I am truly appreciative that the boss had accommodated a lot of my requests and honestly genuinely a good guy. In the end of my employment it was easy to give my notice (because there issues that came up) but still hard because I really like working for my boss.
Not to bore you with all the boring details living in Nelson drained me emotionally, financially and to a point physically... you remember how I said about my under active thyroid, well I wasn't able to get health care because I couldn't afford it, so there fore I wasn't able to get the medication needed and well... I will let you google the symptoms of having an under active thyroid, it's not pretty and I pretty much suffered from ALL of them (including substantial weight gain). It broke my heart because it was my dream for over 10 years to live here and now that I am living my dream.... It wasn't all what it was cracked up to be. I met some nice people but not a lot that I will consider a friend. Have you ever been in a place that you literally have no friends? I never went out I never socialized. You know what that does to someone? I was really let down and and in a way broken. I called my mom (bless her heart I put her through A LOT this past year) crying more times than I did just to talk. When my friend told me that she was moving back to Alberta due to personal reasons, I quickly decided that I can choose to sink or swim... So I am swimming... FAST HAHA! I am leaving Nelson April 30th and heading back home. I have never been happier :)
So what's in store for me now?
New life New goals right?
Well one thing that I can admit that was a life saver for my time in Nelson was youtube. I couldn't afford TV so Internet it was. I fell in love with a lot of you tubers and daily Vloggers. It was my form of entertainment, and with how A LOT of you tubers share their lives online, they became my "friends" (remember, I have no friend in this town haha). Two channels that helped me get through this past year was Charles and Alli Trippy (CTFxC), and Danny Duncan and Lindsey Bell (DLV) If you guys don't know who these wonderful and amazing people are go check them out:
Charles: https://www.youtube.com/user/CTFxC
Alli: https://www.youtube.com/user/Alli
DLV: https://www.youtube.com/user/dannyduncan
They are just amazing people! Charles has been going through a lot of junk that really makes my crap seem like it's a breeze. He has his ups and downs but for the most part he just remains really positive. Danny and Lindsey are just a riot that makes me smile with how cute and funny they are.
ANYWAYS! Where was I going with this... OH YEAH YOUTUBE!
But this has peaked my interest in starting a channel of my own. I already I have my first Intro video up and I will start posting them in June so go subscribe there: (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSFy9CPkUjLNW1cv8fVfFZQ) if you want :)
So thats my first goal, my second one is to get back on my path of weightloss and getting my thyroid in check. I strongly believe that I need the thyroid in check first to get everything else health wise to fall in check. It's like a domino effect. My first goal in weight loss is getting put on Desiccated Pigs Thyroid (I will touch more in a blog later on why I think this is important) Second is getting my gym pass. Third is getting my friend to do this with me. The best part about where I am moving to is it's close to the mountains and hiking trails are abundance :).
Something that I have come to realize is that I have A LOT of creative ideas, wether it's writing, crafting or music, it's locked away in my head. I want to start getting these things out (kind of why I want to start my YouTube Channel I can post a lot of things on there). I LOVE PINTEREST! There are so many things on there that I want to try!
Anyways that's all for now reader. I hope to be doing this weekly. I am thinking setting a certain day (maybe fridays) as my blog day. Next week might not be posted because it's going to be a crazy week! but I hope to talk to you all soon :) CHAO BELLA'S
