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Umpiring has begun and other thoughts

So spring has finally arrived, and with it the beginning of my 11th year as an Umpire. So far the games have been well played, no major issues with any players,coaches etc, and I have enjoyed being back out on the fields doing what I love.
 I have about another 12 games spanning the next 4 weeks for my New Hampshire High School season, plus 2 more for Vermont, as well 6 more for local recreation leagues, before  gearing up for a summer  of hopeful Cal Ripken League games, Babe Ruth League games and some tournaments.   Also am planning on going down to Boston with one of my good friends to catch the sox play and that should be a lot of fun. Usually I try and get to at least ONE game a season and also try to catch some minor league games at either Manchester, or Burlington.
   BUT one thing that has kept my mind occupied is the fact that in less then 3 months now I will be leaving Vermont, New England and beginning my new adventure as a Floridian.  I am truly excited about this opportunity to move down there and pursue my umpiring career fulltime, as well as spend more  time with my wonderful girlfriend whom I truly am soo blessed and lucky to have met, while I was down in Florida for Umpire School . She recently came to visit me here in Vermont, and it was such a wonderful visit and I am soo thankful for her family for helping me arrange and coordinate this trip to allow for her to come and visit.
 However excited as I am, I am also quite nervous, and scared about leaving everything that is part of who I am here in Norwich, and in the Upper Valley. I have soo many great friends, and places that I love to go and it will be different I am sure to find the same quality of people that I have met, and know down there that I have here.
    I am nervous about packing up my life into my car and forgetting something, or trying to pack the last 5 years of my life that I have spent here into a suitcase, and duffel bags and other forms of bringing my life down to Florida.   I am not going to be leaving alone, I will be bringing with me all the memories and the special times, and the people that I have met and who have had an impact on me with me on my journey.  I promise I will visit and will come back and see my friends and the Upper Valley as often as I can.  Right now I know that the first time that will be back will ironically be around my birthday in October.  In regards to my trip I  am also hopefully going to be making this trip with my dad, who is one of the most important and special people in my life.  Also I am going to be bringing my  cat, Mitzy with me and she and I will be making this trip together and beginning our new lives down in Florida together.
 I just wanted to just get those things out and say that even though the countdown as begun for me to leave, I will never be more then a plane ride away and will always have ways of communicating with my friends, whether that be, via phone, email, txt or facebook know that ALL OF YOU are important to me and my life and I am thankful for all of you.

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