Moved back to PA after many stops as a traveling nurse. I thought I would give home one last shot, before packing my belongings and leaving for good.
About traveling. I enjoyed seeing different places and learning how things are done in different hospitals. I met some great people and more than a few I hope to never see again.
Traveling taught me that I can live with just the essentials and be very happy. When you work as a travel nurse you understand you can't load everything you own into a VW Jetta - so you have to pick and choose exactly what is important. When you reach your destination and find you are without something - go to walmart and buy it or learn to live without. I learned to live without and it was a very freeing experience.
So when I decided to come back home I wanted to free myself of all the excess possessions I had accumulated over the years. First I tore through my closet and donated 2/3 of what I owned to charity. We are talking boxes and boxes of clothes (I am a clothes whore) and shoes and anything else I had held onto for years.
Something felt so good about letting go of the things I not longer felt that I needed.
What was bad about traveling was never feeling that I belonged to a place or unit. Plus living in apartments - ewwww! Nothing against apartments, but I own a house to do what the fuck I want when I want to do so. Rental furniture is also yuck. Sleeping in a horrible queen bed when my pillow-top king was all the way back in PA.
Back in PA, but just to try it back on for size. I am not sold on staying here, but wanted to give it one last chance to lure me home.. we will see...
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