Getting Kari'd Away

       I've written this blog in my head over and over for a few days now, but am finally ready to put to 'paper' so to speak. So here it goes....        Change is inevitable. Change is usually good. It helps us grow, improve and learn. But change can also be scary and daunting. That's the change I'm dealing with right now. See, Friday was possibly one of the biggest days in my life in a long time. Seems like a such a strong statement but it was. I formally resigned from my music therapy position with the local school district. This is a job that I held for 11 years. It was my first real job. You know, aside from the working at The Limited, grocery store, or selling accidental death and dismemberment insurance over the phone type summer jobs I had throughout college and before.  And yes, I actually did sell D and D insurance and was pretty decent at it, but we'll leave that for another blog post...

I wrote this last night and it is what has spurred on my desire to start a blog. I hope you like it. Just before 212 began I noticed something during part of my weekly drive.   A new building was going up along the road.   I continued to look each week as I drove by wondering what the building would become.   Until one day I found out; a storage facility. I was so disappointed, of all the possibilities, really, that’s what someone decided needed to be built! So I continue to pass the future storage units and now I have noticed they are everywhere !   I feel like I can’t go a mile or two without seeing one and I can even think of a few places where other new storage facilities have recently been built.   So I did some research. According to the Self Storage Association there are almost 46,500 storage facilities in the USA. The storage business brings $20+ billion in annual revenue to the USA.   I, personally, don’t have a storage unit I pay monthly to u...