2024 Chevrolet Colorado Girl Boss (2023) (Patreon)

I am slowly settling into my new place in Seattle (still in a sleeping bag on the floor, but I did buy a dresser and I'll have genuine internet by the end of the week, if you're curious). One of the things that has been helpful has been that I have a brand-new truck to help the moving process with, this Colorado Trail Boss. I needed to properly test it for an article, as well as get a shoot of Emma (girl on the left) done with it for my book, so we hit Snoqualmie this weekend to go wheelin. I actually even used four-low! 

This photo more importantly represents the real reason I'm settling into Seattle. We loaded up a truck with dolls and hit the woods, something I deeply needed in my life. My roommate is fantastic, my friends are amazing, the forest is 40 minutes away by car, and I still can walk to the heart of Capitol Hill in fifteen minutes. I'm like five blocks from Pony, for god's sake. The stares I get now are accompanied with compliments and flirting. It's not fully sunk in yet that I'm actually here. I've visited this city so many times to do the same things I've been doing over the past few days and yet now I'm just here, because I live here, at the top of Capitol Hill.

I'm still aware that it will be challenging to make my life work here because I'm a freelance writer (broke, etc), but I'm not scared any more because I'm here, and that seemed so impossible for so long that now that I pulled that off, everything feels so much more possible again. 

To be blunt, Idaho did almost kill me. That I finally made it out to a place I truly wanted to be, surrounded by friends, with actual opportunity ahead of me again, makes me so happy it didn't. I have no idea what comes next for me, but for the first time in a while, I'm truly focused on being thrilled with the present.