I live here

Some days (like today), I am in the van driving from the office to the garden (the office is south of downtown and the garden is north of downtown) and we pass downtown on our left with a perfect view of the Cascade Mountains on our right and I'm just like 'I live here.'  Like really, I live here, in Seattle.  It's crazy to think about.  It's been going so fast that sometimes I really forget that I am living in Seattle.  I forget just how far away my friends and family live.  Of course I know they are not here and I miss them tons.  But sometimes I forget that they are 3 days away and not 2 hours away.  But mostly I look at the Seattle skyline and I'm like, dude this is my home, this is where I live.  I am living in Seattle.  Seattle.  I am working an amazing job that I love.  I am learning SOO much professionally.  I am making lots of new friends and meeting all kinds of awesome people.  I live on the west coast.  In the pacific northwest.  In Seattle.  Really I do.  Maybe this sounds ridiculous.  But it's so crazy every once in a while when you just realize it.  When you look up to a skyline that you know.  It's good to take a step back and look at a bigger picture.  I live in Seattle.  For real, dude, for real.

And this makes me smile.