Welp. The Griffins are on the move again. This time, we're headed south, to sunny Florida! The Sunshine state! Palm trees, beaches, sunshine, oranges, and humidity! My husband has accepted a position as a systems director of Clinical Documentation Improvement for a 10 Hospital system in the Tampa-St. Pete area....a great career move for him! And it means that he won't be traveling all over the US and he will be home with me EVERY. SINGLE. NIGHT!!! None of the 10 hospitals are more than an hour away from our central location! I am beyond thrilled to get my husband back!! My home is where HE is....no matter what state that may be.....it is a state of happiness! I'd make do in a cardboard box on a sidewalk if it meant we could be together every night....I love this man more than anything else in my life! Just seeing his face and feeling his arms around me after a long day makes everything else in my world fall into place.
It doesn't hurt that we're moving to Florida.......the place most people go for VACATION. Sunny, warm, temperate, close to the beach, near Disney World, lots of parks, lakes, and bays......what's not to love? It doesn't get as hot in Tampa as it does here in Nashville.....humid, yes.....but there's a breeze blowing in off the ocean most days and it rarely gets over 100 degrees! Palm trees, citrus trees, sandy soil, swimming pools, lanais, sunshine.........it sounds like paradise! Yes, I do know that there are fire ants, humidity, alligators, hurricanes, Palmetto bugs, tropical storms, sink holes, lots of older folk, tourists, and traffic.....but we have most of that stuff here too.
I will miss my friends; I will miss my current job.....things are going really well and I have invested a lot of blood, sweat and tears into my current office. However, I know that I will make new friends and find a new job there. We will find a new church home. I will miss my family, but hopefully they will come visit me. We will find new adventures and new places to explore. A new home, a new routine. A new me? Maybe!
Here's to the adventure and the joy of new discoveries!
