So the good news is that Episode 12 and 13 have been done and been waiting for upload for WEEKS now. The bad news is my Final Cut Pro is no longer working. So I tried putting things together via IMOVIE and it kept crashing and burning. So until I can get all my discs out of storage, which should be by next week, new video content has to wait. Unless of course some amazing soul has a Final Cut I could use=) Don’t worry I won’t tell if you won’t!

I can’t believe my trip started back in January. It feels like a lifetime ago and I feel like I have an entirely different life since then and well I guess I do. I have a new job opportunity that starts next Wednesday and have been apt hunting here in Los Angeles. Of course like all things, as soon as I get one opportunity another comes up that would have been pretty amazing, but sadly had to turn down.

It’s been an incredibly surreal few days here. I am coming up on 8 years living in Los Angeles and it feels like I am coming to live here for the very first time. Not only have I changed, but the people around me have changed and the city itself is changing. Everyone seems to be leaving Los Angeles with the vacancy rate higher than ever and a lot of people are struggling to find work. Things are definitely NOT the same.

Yesterday as I was driving around a neighborhood at night to see if I would want to live there, a car came down the street and took out my driver’s side mirror. I tried to chase after him, but to no avail. He was too fast and I was still in shock by what happened. I’m fine and so is Fran, but in that instant I had feelings of both anger, fear and instinct to connect to people. I wanted to call my boyfriend, but he was out of town. I thought about calling my best friend, but he no longer lived in Los Angeles. Finally I thought I should call my parents to let them know, but they were on a plane flying back east. In that moment I truly felt like I had 8 years ago upon first moving to Los Angeles. Now I am not going to equate a hit and run accident with moving to a new place, BUT I will say the same feelings when I first came here rushed through me. The need for connecting by calling people I knew so I felt safe, the fear, the shock that I had actually made the move in the first place. The rush of emotions I felt were the same I felt 8 years ago when I first came to Los Angeles.

After I checked the vehicle and made sure Fran was ok another feeling washed over me, gratefulness. Thank goodness I was ok, thank goodness nothing more happened to my vehicle and thank goodness I knew the fastest route home. The truth is things are very different here, but things are also the same. Sometimes it is hard to determine, which is more scary. However, once you push past the fear things are always better than what you thought!