Career Options?

So out of the blue I have found myself gravitating toward personal training and perhaps physical therapy. It's funny how that happens. Life seems to be going in one direction, and then it takes a careening sideways slide before heading somewhere completely different.
I'm working at the YMCA right now, and I'm loving it. I just started working in the fitness department today, and it was pretty good. I think I'll get myself certified as a personal trainer through the Y, and then, once I've got some good experience under my belt, if nothing else turns up as a good career opportunity, I'll find myself a nice job as a full-time personal trainer. And then I'l save up and start working on my degree in Physical Therapy. And I think Yoga certification falls in there somewhere, too.
The only question now is, where and when do I start that natural foods cafe that I've been thinking of for so long? Or perhaps that's a retirement gig, like I'd origanally thought?
Oh well. Life is crazy. Good, but crazy I love it!

Washington, not DC

So I just got back from Washington a few days ago. What a gorgeous place! I'd not yet been to the Pacific Northwest, and I wasn't quite prepared for how awesome it is to see massive mountains rising out from across a huge bay. Mountains and Beaches in the same scene... How much more could you ask for?
I wish I'd taken more photos and/or video while we were there, but no, I was too distracted by the great time I was having to bother thinking about recording it! This pic of Serra and me is pretty much all I have from the trip, snapped quickly on my cell phone while were admiring the view from the top of Washington Park.
I'm now torn. I like the Boston area. I've been having a pretty good time here. My job, though, is not a permanent one, definitely not something I'm ready to settle into. I've been looking into what I want to do with the rest of my life, and for the most part I was thinking about staying in this general area. Now, though, I know how amazingly awesome the Pacific Northwest is, and I'm wondering if perhaps moving out there might be somewhere in my future... I thought the same things about Colorado, though...Oh well, no rush.
Except that there is a bit of a rush, in terms of my career. My current job is not cutting it in terms of paying the bills, and I'm really not liking the stress of wondering what bill won't get paid this month. It's not a pattern that I want to get into, and thus I'm looking to get a better job of some sort or other rather soon, if I can't make more hours/money where I'm working now... Again, oh well. No sense getting stressed about it. I've got a few options I'm looking into. Until then I'll keep up this experiment on how to be poor.