On Big Announcements

This is something I have been contemplating for a while now and I think it's time everyone knows.  Let me start by saying this though: for those of you that speak to my mother, I have not told her, please do not mention it!! I will tell her myself when the time is right.

SO, the big news.... While I love Portland dearly and it will always be a place of wonderful memories, I will be moving back to Virginia at the end of my lease in October.  (DUN DUN DUUUUUUUN)

Right, anyway, there are a number of reasons for this move, first and foremost being that I want to be closer to my family.  My dad, my grandparents and all my aunts and uncles and cousins are on the east coast, from North Carolina to West Virginia.  The closer I get to starting a family myself, the more I want to have them nearby.

The second big reason is that a friend of mine and I are looking at starting a bakery to go along with his graphic design studio (www.rappsodystudios.co.cc).  I know that, outwardly, this doesn't make a whole lot of sense but I promise it does.  We will have a store front and cafe but then we will also have an "edible marketing" division.  Customers and companies will be able to get cookies, candies and chocolates custom designed by our graphics team! It's going to be awesome!!!!

I will be moving to an area a little West of D.C. and a bit North of Richmond, though the exact location is TBD.

For those of you that know me and know my aversion to VA, rest assured, I am not making this decision lightly.  I will not be anywhere near the area I grew up in and I think I will actually like it.  I feel amazingly good about the whole thing.  I feel more at peace with this turn of events and the timing and the future than I have in a long time.  I know it's the right thing and I am completely excited!!

I am going to enjoy Portland to the fullest while I am here, going out with friends, exploring Oregon.  I have a new roommate that I am counting on to show me a good time.  ;-)  I love Portland, I love Oregon and I am sure I will come back here many, many times and maybe even move back someday.  For now, though, I feel in my soul, in my gut, in my heart, what ever you want to call it, that it's time to go home.