Intro

I never thought that I would be blogging, since I've never liked writing anyway, but here I am... writing my first blog. It took me probably close to one hour just to come up with the first few sentences, and probably a whole Saturday night to write a whole entry. So why am I doing this?

When you asked me ten years ago about what I want in life, I would've most likely given you the most generic and predictable answer that many other people give: to have my career, settling down, living in my own home, etc, etc, kinda like what everybody else is doing. That was what I envisioned for my future, not because that's what I really wanted in life, but because that was what everybody around me is doing. It seemed to me that that was what life is: you go to school, then college, then get a job and start a career, then get married, settled down, buy a house, live like everybody else. It does sound kind of boring... but that was okay, because I'm not much of a thrill-seeker anyway.

But then I got married... to someone who doesn't settle with a boring life. After two years of marriage, we started to envision what we want in our lives together, what we want our lives to be, and we don't want it to be boring.

This blog is to document our journey of marriage together. Long story short, we want to live the life we want, fulfilling in every aspect, and (hopefully) along the way give something back to the community we are living in. Oh, and we also want to live here:

That is the US Virgin Islands. We are planning to move there hopefully in 2013, that way we have about a year and a half to plan the move and save money to start over. I will continue to work as a Physician Assistant there, hopefully in a primary care community clinic setting serving the locals, while my husband will work in the tourism industry starting his own business. We also want to volunteer, help the community and maybe even one day start a local non-profit program there.

So that is the plan for now. We will write about our life in the meantime: living in a crappy town, working hard to save tons of money and getting ready to make the move to paradise. But it is Saturday night, it is time to relax and enjoy the weekend in our crappy town, so maybe I'll have one of this...

~ Josie