A year

Okay - sooo its been a long time since my last post so a quick catch-up timeline of the high points of the last two years:

Feb 28, 2010 - completed my first Marathon in under 6 hours and had a blast though it was rough at points.

May 7, 2010 - graduated with my MPH in Epidemiology (no picture because I didn't go to the graduation ceremonies because I was to burned out from trying to finish everything so I could graduate on time).

August 28, 2010 - Arrived in Augusta, Maine to start work with the state (I'd never been to Maine, so why not just move there for a while - that was my thought behind the move!)


Okay so we're all caught up and back to the present in July 2011.

Almost a year ago I move from Florida to Maine. While I knew it was going to be a cold, dark, long winter, I still wasn't prepared. I did make it, though not always as gracefully as I'd have preferred.

I did learn may may things:

- how to shovel my car out of 18" of snow (okay - maybe it was only 12, but it seemed like 18" to this southern gal)
- that downhill skiing is awesome and scary and needs to be done repeatedly!
- when you're ice climbing you must trust the ice tools and crampons to work and keep you stuck on the ice
- that good friends/roommates are recommended for survival, but are required in my case (I love you all!)
- that sliding down hill backwards in my car is NOT fun (it was controlled so nothing was damaged and no one was hurt, but still!)

And most notably - that I was not made to thrive through cold, New England winters.

While I called a truce with winter and Mother Nature, a Maine winter really isn't something that I enjoyed or wanted to repeat - therefore Arizona here I come!!


I will miss all the wonderful people that I have met here, but I'll be back - maybe for a ski trip or a cool week on a Maine lake. I'm like a bad penny - I always turn up!