I realized someting today. It has been a year since I moved away from home. It’s kind of strange knowing that I’ve been away from my friends, family and all the places and things I grew up around. Just yesterday for no real reason at all I found myself craving a pizza from Beggar’s. I’d say its impossible to find a good pizza out here, or for that matter a good burger, grinder, or gyro sandwich. Shit happens I guess.
Things were rocky after the move, I spent my life savings keeping bills paid and living life. I’m not ashamed to say there were times when I wish I hadn’t moved but those times were fleeting and honestly I never regret it. My wife (yes, wife) still has her bad days when she misses home (the place she spent 21 years of her life) and I don’t blame her one bit. We made a few trips back home last year and we plan on making at least one trip this year and we’ll probably go back until we are too old to make any more trips.
I’ve been at my new job for nearly a year now. It will be a year in August and I can say I’ve never been happier at a job…Of course it’s actually a career, I’ve always defined a job as something you just go to and get paid; the kind of thing you do with no reward other than a weekly check. I don’t have one of those, I have a career with lots of benefits. Work keeps me busy, I am in the middle of setting up an entirely new infrastructure, among other projects.
I’ve been married for two months now and it’s great. Not much has changed since being married and I like it that way. When things start to change just because you have the title husband or wife, that’s when shit hits the fan. I’m quite comfortable shit sans fan.
Sarah is finished with school, has her diploma and is working at a pathology lab in Fort Wayne. It’s a few miles farther from home than either of us had liked. Especially with gas prices the way they are but my truck doesn’t get great mileage either but I knew what I was gettin into when I bought it. I’m really proud of Sarah and all her accomplishments at school but I’ve said that more than once.
My best friend, Kevin, is making the trek out here next weekend for the Memorial Day holiday so we’re gonna show him a good time. I really appreciate him coming out here, it’s great to see him and it’s great when I get to see any of my friends. It’s terribly hard to meet people my age out here since I’m so young and I work with people twice my age. Eventually I’ll get around that some how. Not that I’m bothered by sitting around the house messing with my computers and watching tv. Seriously, it doesn’t bother me.
I gotta go do something so that’s it for now.