Family, Future and Food... Part 2 (Future)

Part 2 - Future...

I have had a lot to think about regarding my future. I can't help but think ahead. I do that a lot but now that I have Neil in my life and with all the changes I have made over the past 2 years (Happy 2 year Surgiversary to me! 2 years on July 24th), I have this extreme desire to plan my future. Besides the obvious planning of a life with Neil, I am also thinking about one day having kids and moving into a bigger place with more bedrooms. A lot to think about! I am not worried at all. I know that what is meant to be, will be. As much as I think about my future with Neil and about a future family etc.. I feel somewhat like I need to pull back on the reigns of my brain. I am so used to being 100% in control of my destiny that I tend to map out things as the sole participant.. now I have other influences and a partner to consider. Someone who gets to share in a lot of those decisions.

Another thing I have been really spending a lot of time and energy thinking about, is my career. I am not 100% working in the role that I feel best fits my skills and I really miss working on a team of people who collaborate and share ideas with me. Being the only Tech Writer in the company is a lonely job. I wish I was at least a part of the communications department so I would be able to share in the creative energy pool. No offense to any accountants out there but it is hard to have my brain within a team of people that do all the things I was terrible at in High School! Mind ya, my actual team consists of me and my boss and he is on the other side of the country so technically my "team" that I refer to above is another team I tend to tag along with lol.

As part of this soul search and potential aspirations career-wise I am thinking about what I really love to do and what I really want to do in the future. When I have children I need to be able to take maternity leave or afford the time off anyway. It all fits together in a mishmash of what is practical vs. my aspirations. Again I am positive that whatever is meant to happen, will and of course everything always works out in the end.

This weekend I am going camping with Lauren, Neil and my Dad. I haven't been camping with my dad in a long time and I am really excited! He is a master camper and this is also the first camping trip post-Marchesini (after surgery) :)

On a side note, I have been thinking about potentially collecting and perfecting recipes to write a cookbook but I will touch on that in Part 3.