Good to be home but where will it be next....

I've arrived safe and sound in good old Dundas Ontario, the town where time stands still. As much as I hated this place as a kid, I now love it as an adult. Yet to my surprise this time round time has done anything but stand still.

I've come home to find many things, many people and many places have changed. Maybe its just our age or that time in our life but I find everyone buying homes, getting engaged, getting married, having babies, expecting babies. As hard as it is not to measure yourself against others I find myself thinking and wondering - what have I done? How have I changed? I'm still living out of a suitcase with nothing to show for it!

Despite this little self-assessment and jealousy that I may have over others, others look at me and are jealous of what I have done and what I have accomplished. I guess you can really say that I have lived for myself and not for others, and have pursued my goals (not all of them, but at least some of them!). I've traveled the world, I've got 2 international degrees and 3 post-secondary degrees and now a bunch of letters I can put behind me name.... But despite this it still makes me wonder....What next?

I think I can officially say that I am ready to get off this merry-go round of my life and settle my wee self down somewhere that I can call home, somewhere that I can establish and grow my career.

As Bonnie and Scotland may be, I don't think its the place for me. I think its kind of like living in a greenhouse, a place that is always damp and wet but when the sun does shine (not often!) it is certainly one of the most pristine and pretty places I have been.

My trip home has made me realize how great Canada is, and also how much I have missed being close to friends and family. Officially on my agenda, the next stop and hopefully long term stop will be Vancouver. To me it has everything a young sexy singleton like myself could imagine. Its got the ocean, the mountains and the cosmopolitan city that I crave.

So a one way ticket to Vancouver please.