WOW! It has been over a year since my last post - where has the time gone?

WOW!  It has been over a year since my last post - where has the time gone?

I didn't mean to take a year off but it happened.  A lot and I mean a lot has happened since my last blog post.  So much that I don't know where to start or even how to begin to catch everyone up to what is going on in my life.  That is assuming that you care what is going on in my life - lol.  I write this blog for me anyway and right now I need to write again because things feel like they are close to derailing and that should be farthest thing from my thoughts right now.  My plan is to write when it suits me to see if I can get my train back on track.  If that doesn't work, I will head back to therapy.  :)

I am running again.  Today marks the 75th day that I have run at least one mile.  Not a bad streak actually.  I am not sure what prompted me to start running again but on July first I went out for a run and i have run at least one mile every day since then.  Yay me!  Yes.  I am bragging.

Shadow Selfie from my 75th run this morning - check out that view!

My Nature Lab is killing it.  I haven't even written about My Nature Lab and here I am telling you that it is killing it.  Things couldn't be better.  I quit my high paying corporate consulting job on January 1, 2017.  I then works at Home Depot for over a year working my way up to the Department Supervisor of Lumber and Building Materials.  I enjoyed that job but it wasn't fulfilling my desire to share snakes and their amazing natural histories with people so we opened My Nature Lab.  We opened on Earth Day (April 22) and have over 200 members with a goal of 500 in the first year.  Killing it!  That said, we still struggle each month to pay the rent and my starting salary of $42,000 annually that we just started paying last month.  Members love the Lab and they come back all the time.  We are building a strong community around snake conservation right here in Louisville.  We just need to keep growing to become financially secure.  My mind is swallowed by these thoughts of not being able to pay our bills and it has killed my creativity.  Running is helping.  Being at the Lab every day is helping.  I just need to look at the big picture and find a way to grow.

Great Horned Owls just because they are nature.

Short post this morning since the Lab is about to open for the day and I need to get ready for our members and visitors.  Just writing this short blog post is amazingly therapeutic.  I will be writing a lot more in the next few weeks/months.