1. Widen my circle of friends.  Find at least 5 new friends that I would like to keep.
2. Discover at least 3 new things about me.
3. Excel beyond my own expectations in my new job.
4. Get a high pay raise for what I've done in number 3.
5. Furnish my new apartment.
6. Explore my new ‘home State' and find at least 3 favorite places to hang out.
7. Re-awaken and deepen creativeness.
8. Create a memorial of the loved ones I have lost.
9. Find a way to give back to the community and commit to it.
10. Find a new love (if he ever exist)!

I have arrived!  I have arrived in Washington!  I have arrived to my own place, to my peace!  I should revel in saying those words because I think this is something I cannot quite often say in life.  In life, we never really quite arrive because we are almost always just getting there!  Not sure if that makes sense, but it does to me!

It has been a month and 3 days since I drove into Emerald City.  Full of excitement, driving into my newfound city, it was about 6 pm when I drove into the house where I rented online -a room for a week.  One look at the house and my excitement plummeted deep into my stomach- causing pangs of fear and panic !  The house and its surrounding looked more like a scene from the movie, The Adamm's Family (not kidding).  With courage I did not feel, I walked up to the house, met my landlord, paid for my room and brought some of my things and the cat into the rented room where I stayed with much discomfort and panic!  With my enthusiasm dampened and for a night, sleepless in Seattle (no romance, this time), I took off early the next morning to crash in my friend's living room while her ferret and doves agitate with the smell of my tired and confused cat.  The following day, a surge of renewed hope came at finding another rented room (with what I thought was a kind and sweet man), only to be once again dampened by another reality:  my new landlord's disability was not his lost vision but his current state of emotional instability.  During all this time, I had found myself a new job with very pleasant new co-workers, met and encouraged by a zaadzster (thanks, Cassie J), received unrivaled and continuous moral support from a strong network of family and friends beyond WA (Colorado, California and Oregon) and my courage sustained by listening to Stin's podcast (mythoughtcoach.com).  Then about a little over a week ago, a ray of sunshine did pushed through the clouds of WA and smiled at me as I found this cute little apartment nestled in a rustic little town, just beside the wine country of WA. 

Ah!  It has been quite a month!  Many extreme emotions filled that entire one month that I probably have never felt in any years of my life put together.  Yet here I am, celebrating it all with a glass of 2002 Merlot!  I am sure there were plenty of lessons that I needed to learn from that one month.  Surely, there will be plenty of time later to ponder those.  For now, the cat and I are happy, content and at peace.  Once again, I will say, I have arrived (for here, for now)!

What makes life meaningful?  It is simple:  by sharing it!  No amount of knowledge, wisdom, wealth, status nor good health can bring meaning to one's life when it is not shared with another.  One simply cannot live life in one's head!  Mountain-top-experiences may bring a fleeting glimpse of meaning, but it remains that - only a glimpse, unless it is shared with those who are at the foot of the mountain!  

Hmmm, if I have $10 million, I will take care of my own and others!

Finance the college education of my nieces (3) and nephews (3).  Help lift the financial burdens of my siblings.  Build a hide-away-cabin nestled in the pines somewhere here in WA.  Offer college scholarship to some deserving youths.  Find worthwhile investments (like Zaadz!) and make charitable donations.  Then finally, hide in my cabin to write these nagging stories in my head and put some colors on canvas.