Radioactive...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPBbMbKSZrQ&ob=av2e
Here's a link to Kings Of Leon - Radioactive

Listen on one tab and read on another. Multitask for a brief moment. Good luck. I believe in you.

I started writing this blog because I moved away. Last Saturday, while driving through Hillsdale for the first time in three months I started to get emotional about our macaroni and cheese colored movie theater, our "highway" dotted with fast food restaurants, Walmart, the penguin jumping over an igloo Christmas light on the court house lawn... We have nice things here. Seriously, we have a beautiful Christmas set up which starts at one end of the town and continues to the other. Also, I made a list of about thirteen places I needed to eat before I left. Turns out, I care about this town.
IN ADDITION to the restaurants, my family lives here (angels are singing)!!!

My favorite part about being home is the total lack of decisions I have made while here. No cooking, buying of groceries, showering, going to work (yes, I count this as a decision some mornings), locking doors, locking car doors, wearing heels or flats, choosing a route to work based on time and highway traffic tendencies...
I think the biggest decision I made was about the pattern in a scarf I'm knitting... I guess I had to choose the yearn too.

Adulthood is essentially defined (according to me) as the phase in life during which your actions and reactions start to bear significant weight. I suppose I've been in this phase for a while, but I used to really suck at it. Moment of silence for the days of old... AND NOW take a moment to consider how much better you are at making decisions. Let us now join hands across space and time. I shake you warmly by the hand. We are now winning.

Back to the music you are by now jamming to for the second time (or youtube a Beastie Boys song... LONG LIVE MIKE D). I went running on Monday with some ear muff/head phones my Momma bought me for Christmas. It was sunny, the altitude is low so I didn't feel like my lungs were bleeding, the roads were clear, and that song came on. There are a select few people in this world that smile from ear to ear while running. I was one of those people for a brief moment. I miss it here, but at the same time I was tickled with thoughts of how happy I am in Colorado. The nice thing about leaving is that I can come home and see all of my favorite people, during my favorite time of year, and my life in Colorado still exists. There is no expiration date. I am making a choice to go back there are be really, really happy! Being here reminds me of God's grace. It reminds me of my family, bad choices, better choices, possibilities, my friends, my past, the future, SENTIMENTAL THINGS TO SAY.
However, I truly do mean it.

The best thing a person can do is move away from home, miss it like crazy, and be really, really happy making tough life choices in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains.