Real Adulthood

I am embarking on stage 2 of the scary and exciting journey of "Real Adulthood". Annie, one of my first RAs in SF, used to refer to me as a "Real Adult". When she would say something about adults, and then people would look at her like "Helloooo! All college students are adults!", she'd say, "yeah, but Ann is a REAL adult." Little did she know, it would be many many years before I'd become a Real Adult.

Well, to me being a Real Adult means being a home owner. So, I have a condo on hold in Vancouver but a few things went down that didn't put things on hold and made me realize that I want to live in Portland, closer to work. This past weekend, I connected with a realtor and started the search and found a place I love. So I am nearing the possibility of being a home owner. Offer-wise, things are accepted, but I still need to do an inspection to make sure I want the place. It was built in the 1940s, so there is a good possibility that there will be some major issues, so I am trying not to get my hopes up. But there is a good possibility that I'll be closing on a very cute condo in NE Portland at the end of August.

In other news, I FINALLY turned in my Intermediate Certification portfolio at work. This is the first of several steps to getting a raise and demonstrating my growth and the skills I've developed as a Success Coach in the last year. I was planning to wrap things up by the end of this week, and then on Monday we got an e-mail that the process is going on hold for a couple of months while we revamp it and we had until 1pm Tuesday to submit anything we wanted to get in. Don't get me started on having 1 day notice (it gave me a chance to practice my stress management skills I'm learning from my peer coach), but it gave me the push to put in the last 2 hours to finish things. It feels good. We talk about open cycles with students and how important it is to close cycles, and this is one of them in my life. I may not get to the next steps for a while, but at least I've gotten step 1 done!

Happy July 4, all! And Happy B-day to my Dad tomorrow and Tammy on Friday!