It's Real...It's Here...Just Take It

And these are my dreams
That I’d never lived before
Somebody shake me
Cause I, I must be sleeping

So Far Away - Staind

Guess what got Fedexed to me today…that’s right it is a job offer from my east coast opportunity. And yes, it is a good offer. I am not sure if there is any reason to turn it down. It is too perfect…relocation package, great money, good company, good benefits…everything except my family. My family all live here in California. Although I was not close to them for the better part of my adult life, I have grown close to them over the last few years and the idea of living 3000 miles away is a little scary. You see, I know myself. I am terrible with long distance relationships. I mean your family is always your family, but I see them every week now and if I move across the country, then I will maybe see them annually. I know they wouldn’t want me to pass up an opportunity like this just because of them and family probably isn’t a good enough reason to pass it up either, but it is my only reservation.

I have a meeting with my boss tomorrow to let him know that my days are numbered. I mean, come on…it has been my wish to move east for the last ten years…now I can. No way am I passing it up. Who knows, a few years from now I could find myself in Manhattan with my dream job, shopping at my corner market and basically existing within a six block radius (New Yorkers will understand this)…it is out there, I just have to grab it.

To my family, I say, I will miss you. I have truly appreciated the last few years and the chance to get to know you all, for really, the first time. I hope you know I love you all…even the grandkids…and I will do my best to break my habit of not communicating with people who are not in my immediate vicinity.

The job and the move are actually contingent on a background check, so I hope they don’t find out about that bank robbery in 1982…Look out east coast, I am on my way.