Six Months!

This post was supposed to be made on Monday and then it was going to be Tuesday....well now it's Wednesday and I'm finally getting this up. (Actually I saved a draft on Wednesday and am actually posting on Thursday) But then again, I don't really think anyone reads this blog anymore so does it really matter when I post. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Monday marked six months to the day that I truly started off my Bay Life and one year to the day that I made the decision to roll the dice, leave my New York job and take a chance on coming out to the Bay. (I made this huge decision while waiting in horrific New York/New jersey Traffic a week after visiting the Bay to meet with a producer at the unsaid company and realizing how much happier I could be from where I was in my current life and job. Thank you New York Traffic!!)

Reflecting back on those 6-12 months, I can definitively say that I made the right decision. While things are still up in the air with the final arrival of Mrs. Nice Gal and while it may have taken me longer to lock down a job down than initially expected, I am very confident and happy with the decision made.

I feel that over the past six months I have been able to re-center and return to the "person" that I want to be and that I look to be over the course of the next years. Now I can make things seem all fluffy and bountiful, but as with as life situation there are going to be things that I wish would be better. I of course without a fraction of doubt in my being, wish that Mel was out here and am counting down the days till we are reunited finally and permanently. I can also say that I wish I had some closer friends out here. While I one of my best friends from high school is out here and I do see him every other weekend or so, I am still looking forward to building a larger group of friends and acquaintances. I could say that I look forward to the apartment to be fully set-up as it sits in partial disarray as I wait to make decisions that require Mrs. Nice Gal's presence. I could say all this and it would be true, but it still wouldn't change the fact that I took a huge risk and it can undoubtedly be said that the risk paid off and I am happier now than I was before.

So there you go after six months, I am in a pretty darn good place and ready for the next six. In conclusion, I will point out a few things that I have learned over the course of these past months:

• New Yorkers yell a heck of a lot more than in the SF/Bay Area
• There is not nearly as many horn honkers out here. For better and FOR WORSE. You can be sitting at a green light for 5-15 seconds, and people will just twiddle their thumbs waiting for you to go.
  
• People out west do however complain a heck of lot more. (If perhaps not as loudly and with as many colorful explicatives)
  People out here need to totally toughen up and stop all of this whining. (Guess it is true what they say when it is suggested to live in New York, but leave before you get too hard, and to live in Northern California, but leave before you get too soft. A lot of people out here are very soft.)
  
• I can't tell whether I like the drivers better or not out here.
  
• On one hand, New York drivers are far superior drivers than California drivers. Their skills are better.
• However this knowledge of their skills and their aggression causes them to cut more defensive people off, and just be obnoxiously rude and idiotic.
  
• California drivers are nice calm, peaceful drivers, but they also make moves on a dime totally oblivious of other drivers. For a defensive driver, this isn't so bad because I am prepared, but other California drivers are just as oblivious as a car is about to hit them! UGH!
• The weather out here is perfect with the exception of the lack of rain
• Since moving in by myself, it has not rained a single day. 6 months -- No Rain. CRAZY!
  
• Working in film (even with talking Chihuahuas) is so much more rewarding than spinning cell phones. Though from what I hear from my producers, the film clients are just as indecisive, whiny, and nasty as advertising clients. (And I tended to have good advertising clients...ACK!)

So there it is. If I had to give a grade for the six months, a resounding A (A+ will be once Mel gets out here). For the past month itself maybe a A-/B+ (The individual month grades always seem harsher in more immediate retrospect.) So everyone have a great long weekend, Happy Labor Day, enjoy the political conventions, and most importantly start getting ready for FOOTBALL! Blog with you soon!

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

-Nice Guy SMA-