This is it.

Stacy sits next to me on the plane to Edinburgh, Scotland, reading a fantasy novel about dragons. As surreal as this feels, we may as well be on our way to fight dragons ourselves. It hasn’t sunk in yet that this is the day. The first day of what? The rest of our lives? The first day marking days different from all that have come before? The first day of our excellent and amazing adventure.

Well, that was it at least.  😉  I have been a bit belated in posting.  Too busy storming castles, inspecting ancient inns, gazing out train windows, meeting new friends, and strolling cobblestoned lanes.

But is it?

Though I have been officially unemployed for three weeks now, it’s still not real.  As I wrote in my last post, the first two weeks were filled with far too much adulting.  The stress of that time is finally wearing off after a week in Scotland.  This just feels like a vacation at this point. There was a freakish moment when I was filling out the landing form on the plane. I was bewildered about what to write for “profession”. Am I a writer? Not yet. I spent twelve years as a project manager but that’s not something that I felt defined me. A year from now I suppose I could go back to that, but I don’t know that I will. I wrote “Former Project Mgr” but I think next time I’ll take the advice of a couple of friends and either write, “Explorer” or “Self Unemployed” or “Travel Blogger”.

What’s in a name…

I’m *still* brooding over what the proper name for my blog should be.  I thought I had it finally when “Go Find Glow” came to me but the vast majority either don’t get it or don’t like it. It came to me when I was in the midst of trauma right before I left. My sweet cat Aiko’s health was at a point that I needed to let her go. I left the vet’s office, taking her home to spoil her for one more week before saying goodbye. Grief bubbled up, bordering on hysteria so I fired up “Emergency Calm” on my Calm meditation app (love this app BTW!) and held Aiko and tried to calm down.

Why do I care what “they” think?