Getting Back on Track Part 2

Welcome to Part 2 of Getting Back on Track. If you didn’t read Part 1 from last week, then you definitely want to go and read that first. 

All that was from 2022. I’m actually getting this blog up in 2024. So what has happened to fill this last gap. Well…for starters, we didn’t get inspections approved from the city on the new office space until just before Christmas of 2023. Yeah…it took a whole year and a half to get the simple remodel done and approved. So that is one “excuse”. 

Another more fun explanation (or was I just fed up with the remodel and couldn’t work anyway so came up with something else to do?) is that I turned 50 in 2023. So my gift to myself was to travel somewhere every month last year. And I pretty much filled up the year. 

January: Caribbean Cruise (my first)

February: Costa Rica (another first)

March: Hawaii - Oahu (first time on this island, had been to Kauai and The Big Island before)

April: NYC to see Depeche Mode & Asbury Park, NJ; then back again to tour colleges with my oldest.

For the college tour with Will, we visited Columbia and NYU. 

May: New Orleans to see The Cure

June: 2 different trips visiting more colleges with my oldest

The first trip was to Boston to visit MIT, BYU, Northeastern, Tufts and Yale. Spoiler alert...his Early Decision school was Northeastern and he got in! So I will have many more Boston trips in my future 😊 The second trip was to Pittsburgh (U of Pitt), Philadelphia (UPenn & Temple) and finally to Washington DC (U of Maryland & Georgetown).

July: More College Tours (this time West Coast). Seattle (UW) and San Luis Obispo (SLO, Ca)

August: Harbor Beach, MI...our family's happy place

September: Pearl Jam in Chicago

October: Greece...and I got COVID on the flight out, but I wasn't sick at all, so I managed.

November: Carlsbad, CA for Thanksgiving

December: Didn't go anywhere this month, so my final month of travel for my birthday was actually January when I went to Kauai, Hawaii with my sister.

And that concludes my 12 months of travel for my 50th trip around the sun. Going forward, I will have more content pertinent to my jewelry business. I can't wait for you to follow me on this journey!

Until next time......

Dianna