Life Change

I have experienced so many changes in the last 7 months.  2013 has been an interesting year.  My X husband, Johnny Seidel, passed away.  We had continued to see each other off and on over the last 10 years, but were on an off period.  It was a terrible shock when I got the phone call that he had passed away.  If anything it made my determination to move to Costa Rica even stronger.  I do not want to dream... I want to do!

I did change my plans as far as renting my house out.  Instead I decided to sell my house and moved back to my old home town, Greenville.  The pace of life is slower here and the cost of living is less.  Just another step in the right direction.

It's interesting when I start connecting the dots of my path.  After my divorce I moved to Oak Cliff in Dallas.  It is an area that is not as upscale and citified as my entire life has been up until then.  I went from having Central Market and Neiman Marcus in my back yard, to having small not so great grocery stores and having to drive about 10 miles to reach anything upscale.  This was the first step in getting used to slimming down my options.  Now I've moved to Greenville where life is slower paced and there is practically no good shopping at all.  If I want a good grocery store, ie Central Market, I have to drive back to Dallas.  All these changes are getting me ready for Costa Rica!  Puriscal is a very small town and my life style will change.  It would have been quite the culture shock if I had not started changing my lifestyle seven years ago.  Of course, at the time I did not realize where my life was going.  Connecting the dots is so exciting!  God has had a hand on my life for a very long time. 

I am so excited.  My plan is still to move there in 3 years once I am able to collect social security.  But the life style change is going to be easy for me now.

Make your plan, trust God, and work that plan!

Pura Vida!

Keeping My Eye On The Prize

Now that I have decided to rent my house out and move into my garage apartment I've gotten busy!  I had the outside of my house painted this week, including the stairs to the garage apartment, and it has my house looking like new!  Next week my wood fence will be stained.

I've been collecting boxes at work.  I am going to start packing things that I rarely use.  I've also started listing things for sale on Ebay!

I know now I will not be able to finish the house and move everything into storage until the end of December or the beginning of January.  It is so hard to be patient.  I want to do everything at one time, but finances are just not there for that.  It will also be nice to spend one more Christmas in my house.  I can tell you I will not be sad to move into the apartment even though it is only 469 Sq. Ft.  Just knowing what I will be able to save and knowing how much faster it will move me towards my goal of getting to Costa Rica will make every day a joy!

I am reading an E-book about a man who moved from California to Costa Rica about 10 years ago.  From his experiences and from what my friends who are already there is teaching me is that patience is not just a virtue it is necessary to save your sanity!!!!  It's funny that patience has always been a problem for me and one of the things I have fought the hardest with is going to be the thing I will need the most for the rest of my life!  God has such a crazy since of humor!

Pura Vida