What’s this all about?

Welcome to my blog!

The Stepford Diaries are my way to chronicle a new life, new perspective, and a new set of priorities; and hopefully to help me keep some kind of perspective.

And so it begins…..

I’m a hard-nosed corporate girl used to boardrooms, negotiations, long commutes, and working insane hours.  I’ve always loved my career and define my success and accomplishments by acheivements in those areas.Somewhere in the last 12 months, though, things have changed.  I went through some really difficult times at work that stretched me past breaking, and things seemed to spiral out of control.  Neither my partner nor I had ever been small people, but gained a lot of weight.  Our eating habits have descended into pizza 2 nights per week, and eating out an additional 3!  We were stressed, grouchy, and miserable.  Something had to give.

Thanks to a bit of luck on the stock market and a well paying career on my partner’s end, at least from a financial perspective, we didn’t need me to work anymore.  So we talked about it, I cried about it, and we shouted about it, and finally we decided that the best thing for our lifestyles, and health (physical and mental) was for me to leave work and focus on taking control of our lives and building a home.

Now, just to be clear, we don’t have children, we don’t even own our own home.  On the face of things there is no reason I “need” to stay home; and yet…..  That is exactly what we’ve chosen.

Over the next 12 months I’ll be sorting out our home, our diets, and our finances.  I’ll also be planning a wedding, and overseeing our immigration to the US.  Hopefully I’ll also be painting my nails, and playing a lot of Xbox while I’m at it.  The real question, though is how will both of us adjust to the shift from workaholic-Michka to Stepford?