In flux

I feel like my life is totally in flux. My roommate moved out. My lease is up next month, and I'm supposed to tell them what I'm doing by the end of this month. My parents are coming home in six and a half months. I'm getting a new boss at the beginning of the year. (Fifth boss in just over four years. And I haven't moved or changed jobs.) Ward boundaries are likely going to be changing soon.

What am I supposed to be doing with my life? Where am I supposed to be? I have no idea. But I'm trying to move forward and keep living my life regardless. So, here's what I've been up to the last few months while I haven't really been blogging. In no particular order:

• I'm keeping an eye out for other apartments, though I haven't looked at any yet. (I think I'm going to pay a bit extra for month-to-month where I am currently until I know ward boundary stuff and then really start looking harder.)
• I signed up for my first half marathon (that'll take place end of April) and I'm still trying to run regularly, even though the Galloway group is off-season right now and the weather is TERRIBLE. How do people run in this? Looking forward to next Galloway season when it'll hopefully be better weather and I'm probably going to be a pace group leader. And I've got some serious training to do to make sure I keep the required 16 minute/mile pace for my half.
• Speaking of running, I ran a couple of 10K races... Barber to Boise and Scheel's Turkey Trot. 
• I did an Ironman in a Month Challenge last month at the Y. (Why on earth would anybody ever do 112 miles of biking? The swimming and running were fine. But biking? Ugh.) And the Ironman reminded me how much I do like swimming. It's just hard to convince myself to get up really early and change into a swimsuit when it's freezing cold outside, even though the indoor pool is great. My bed is just too warm and comfortable. 
• Hit the year mark of being in our new store location. Crazy how time flies.
• Spent time with extended family, both at a funeral in Colorado in October and at Thanksgiving in Reno.
• I finished my Gothicized Italic Calligraphy class and am going to take Copperplate starting in January. 
• I've invited groups of girls over a couple of times now for hanging out and am trying to make more friends. 
• I did NaNoWriMo again in November. I seem to switch off years on having a good idea and then not, and this year was an off year. But I did write 50000 words! So... go me. 

And probably other things. But I think those were some of the highlights that happened while I wasn't blogging. Moral of the story I've learned the last little bit? Bloom where you're planted. Because I haven't really done that since I got my own place, but I feel like I've finally gotten a bit more into the groove of doing that. Only took me almost two and a half years...