And so life goes on.

With a heavy heart and somehow, a mind full of ambition… I am leaving the city of Chicago. As I sit looking around my office, I’m excited to leave. I’m excited to be someplace new.

New….what a glorious word.

But I can tell you in my four years I've learned and done a lot in this great city. I've met the greatest group of friends I will most likely ever know in my life. I have earned my first real big girl job. I've quit my first job. I got married while living here. I lived with a man for the first time ever here. I've witnessed both my parents riding a train for the first time ever here. I've met Josh Duhamel here…. I've watched major block buster movies get filmed here. I walked down Michigan Ave next to Anderson Cooper. The Sears Tower is right outside my door, every day. I've been free here.

But alas, life goes on. Now I will have to suck it up and be strong and put those pretty little memories in a box and plaster my life in Chicago all over my new walls. I will move on. I will make new experiences. But I have this nagging question: Will life ever be this good?

I am looking forward to the new. The new place, the new people, the new memories. But I will never ever forget these memories. Including the one today, where I’m sitting in the dark contemplating a nap, typing this out.

More than anything, I am looking forward to meeting the new me. The new projects I will try to take on, the new nagging I will take part in, simply the new.