I'M MOVING TO.....ANCHORAGE!!! (Well, Eagle River to start)

Yes, I am moving to Alaska.  It's been a long road getting here.  An unexpected path, but now that I am on it the excitement is beginning to bubble over.  I have spent months trying to decide on exactly what course of action to take and here I am.

It all began with my research on rural America.  I am studying to become a teacher and want my focus to be rural education.  Alaska was on the list by default, but it wasn't on my list.  Initially, despite the low pay, I had planned on moving to Montana after graduation.  I guess Heavenly Father had different plans in mind.  I researched, I questioned, I prayed, and I pondered.  I started feeling the draw of Alaska, and somehow it landed on my list too.  This was all supposed to in the future, but the revelations and kept pushing the move up.  So here I am.  It's six in the morning and I've got my flight confirmation, and one phone call in to Alaska Air (I somehow clicked on the wrong flight, so I had to fix it), and hopes and dreams in my front pocket.

Am I scared?  A bit.  But not afraid of the move.  No, that doesn't scare me.  Will I miss my friends?  Sure, but they'll always be there.  Isn't that what Facebook is for? =)  I'm scared, but for reasons I cannot share here.  It's deep within me stirring.  I'm not a very emotional being, as far as the shedding of tears is concerned.  I have a very limited number of "soft spots" in my heart.  This move affects one.  That is all I am gonna say about that.

I'm leaving my job behind, with hopes to find a new one in Anchorage.  I've had the same job for over ten years.  I've been happy there.  I love the people I work with.  They have inspired me both in and out of the workplace.  A company that I have been loyal to.  I will miss the people there.  I will have to un-memorize all the numbers I have come to store in my noggin over the years.  The rapport I have with some of the "people in my life" that I only know over the phone, is something I am going to miss.

I will be staying in Eagle River to start, which is just outside of Anchorage.  My cousin and her husband live there, so it will be nice to be with family.  I will go more into detail as things move forward.  I fly out on February 5th.  I am so excited but I have a lot to get done by then!  I am spending two weeks in San Diego in the beginning of January, so that doesn't leave a lot of time.

I feel so blessed to be able to take this step!

ej