(Inspired by: http://www.etni.org.il/farside/resignation.htm)

I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an employee.

I want to wear boxers all day long.

I want to lose those last 5 pounds that have evaded me.

I want to skip the commute.

I want my meetings to be of the furry kind that take place on the couch.

I want to watch Ellen every day.

I want to get my life organized and efficient.

I want to get through the night without a Blackberry waking me up (a Blackkitty is quite welcome. As is a Bengal one.)

I want to use my new sewing machine to create.

I want to work by my own schedule.

I want to fly only for pleasure.

I want to enjoy the weather, not just talk about it in the breakroom.

I want to take Spanish and yoga and entrepreneurial and pole dancing classes and learn everything there is about everything.

I want to volunteer.

I want to have margaritas at lunch. And at 3 PM. And possibly as a mid morning pick-me-up.

I want a full 8 hours of sleep every night.

I want to start my own Project 365.

I want to do things with my hands that don’t include a computer.

I want to wake up every day next to my love in our bed of furbabies instead of in a hotel room.

I want to become an animal trainer and a party planner and an internet connoisseur.

I want to have picnics and ride a bike I don’t yet have.

I want to feel liberated.

I want to get a purebred, male German Shepherd named Trigger and teach him to live up to his name.

I want renew my motivations.

Therefore, here is my badge. Here is my Blackberry, my laptop (don’t worry, I’ll get a much cuter one), and my Corporate Amex (I’ll just take the points thankyouverymuch).

And here is my resignation.

As of May 5, I will no longer have a job (Happy Drinko de Mayo to me!). Actually neither will Bear as we were each other’s catalyst in this leap of faith.

Scary and wonderful.

We can’t wait.

Living wide is mostly about experiences. Try and do and see and eat and experience anything and everything as much as possible, as often as possible, and to the absolute.

Skydiving - Sophomore year of college, a week after my first boyfriend and I broke up. I felt I needed to start living up to my motto. This was followed by my first cigarette, my first time smoking hookah, my first drunken escapade and my first random makeout session with a strange boy (not all in the same night!). Wrong order? Perhaps. But the feeling of jumping out of a plane is indescribable and life-altering. In a very, very good way.

Falling in love – By far the coolest, and scariest thing, I’ve ever done..

Kickboxing, Self-Defense – Even though I am still petrified of any encounter in which I may have to remember these moves, I was at my peak physically and felt like an incredibly strong woman during these classes and I miss them.

Raising Lions – What started as a need to get back to myself (aka, living wide) after a break-up from my first but not nearly true love, turned into one of the coolest stories of my life. Not only did I get to help raise lion cubs in South Africa, alone for 3 weeks from family and friends and bf; I also met some amazing people and held some big snakes, got to cuddle with a cheetah as well as the lions and rode an elephant.
Lions are unforgiving and selfish and magnificent. And the fact that these white lions are being decimated is a tragedy. I’m glad I could do a small part.

Adopting Bond - A semi-spontaneous decision that I questioned for a few brief moments before I took him home. I’m eternally grateful that I found him out of all the kitties. He is my greatest achievement.

Can’t wait to add more…