So its been a minute and I thought I would say hello.

I did something that was incredible for me, and I'd encourage anyone who hasn't done this to give it a try.

After I went snowboarding with my daughter, I signed up for alerts when big snow fell out west. Leading up to the Easter weekend I started getting emails. I didn't have the kids and I wanted to go, but I couldn't find anyone to go with me. I had the option of going to my parents house in FL for the Easter weekend so that I wouldn't be alone but I didn't want to go. I also had the obvious option of staying home and trying to just experience being lonely and learning to live in that space - but I really wanted to go west.

So On the Thursday before Easter I got a little push from a friend and I said F it. I booked a flight for Friday and went out.

It was the most fun I've had in years. As soon as I got there I knew I had made a great decision. I felt empowered. When I woke up Saturday I was thrilled as I walked to get my coffee and then sat and read a book. I drove up to the mountains with my music blaring the whole way. I snowboarded from open to close. I got back to my hotel and met some people in the hot tub. I went to dinner alone, sat at a bar and got hit on - which is fun. And then made the good decision to go home at 10p, instead of going to the next bar with the ladies.

Sunday I got up and went to church and repeated the day. I had a ball snowboarding, they had gotten 12 inches of snow over night. When I would go up the chairlift I would try to make friends and then I would snowboard with them until I wanted to do something different.

They would show me paths I didn't know about that made it more fun. I tackled some hard and fun terrain until I got exhausted and had to be done. Sunday night I used Bumble to set up a date and had dinner with an incredible woman I'm still talking too. Who knows what will happen with that but she invited me to Mexico in a month and I bought my ticket for that. On the Monday after Easter I had my last day snowboarding and it was a great day too.

One of the greatest most empowering trips of my life. I now know that I can travel alone and have an incredible time.

I got back from my trip and bought an Ikon ski pass for next season so that I can get more days in. And I'm working to set up a trip to Chile this summer to go snowboarding. A friend said he wants to go to, but I'd be fine going alone.

Now all that might sound great, but life is never all sunshine and rainbows. Back in reality work piles up and so do kids activities and I hate interacting with my ex. She has this guy that she has some kind of relationship with and she is brining him around the kids and has him texting my son which I find to be outrageously strange and inappropriate. I raised this issue to her and I almost think she liked the fact it bothered me because it feels like the behavior has increased.

So I'll work through that and find a way to make peace with it. But overall things continue to move in the right direction.