It's been over a year since I last posted on this blog, and my oh my what a year it has been.
This is a post to let you know that I'm still alive, that I'm gonna start posting weekly, and to update you on what a heck of a year it's been.
As promised, here is a (not so) short list of what's happened over the last year!
- I dropped out of NAU and had an existential crisis.
- I moved in with my parents for the summer and tried to figure everything out.
- I went to Disneyland with my best friend, Liberty, and it was the actual best.
- I spent the summer nannying for two adorable girls and helped their family move from one farm to another.
- I found my calling in life and decided to pursue culinary school.
- I joked with a friend about moving to Utah.
- I decided on July 18th, 2016 to move to Utah.
- My mom and stepdad FINALLY tied the knot on July 4, 2015 under the fireworks in San Diego with their best friends by their side. They facetimed us in.
- Liberty, found me a nice, furnished apartment to live in in Utah.
- I packed up my things less than a month after deciding to move, and moved to Utah on August 13th, 2015.
- I discovered that my apartment was not, in fact, furnished and I had no bed.
- I celebrated my birthday with Liberty by going to her cousin's wedding and eating In'n'Out with her amazing family.
- Liberty stayed with me for 2 weeks and we slept on piles of blankets on the floor.
- I made best friends with my favourite cousin's baby, Annie, and spent an absurd amount of time hanging out with Karli, Tucker, and Annie girl.
- Liberty moved to her apartment, and I continued to sleep on the floor for 2 months.
- I got a cool job, but only worked there for 2 months before the pressure of hating my job and some issues with anxiety got to me and I quit.
- I got a new job at a school and absolutely adored it. I'm still working here and I still love it.
- I spent as many weekends in Salt Lake dog sitting my friend Brittany's babies Noah and Mazie as I could possibly muster.
- I finally bought a bed and a dresser.
- I slept on a mattress for the first time in months, and man was that a good night.
- I made new friends.
- I lost old friends.
- I coped with overwhelming anxiety and used social media to connect with a community of people who deal with the same things that I do.
- I played matchmaker.
- I went on some awful dates.
- I went on some not-so-awful dates.
- I cried.
- My paternal grandfather, my Opa, got diagnosed with Metastatic Melanoma, and I cried more.
- My dog turned 13, and the reality of her not being a around much longer set in. I cried some more.
- But more importantly I laughed.
- Karli and I stayed up far past our bedtimes on Halloween Eve sewing costumes and eating chocolate and laughing.
- A girl in sacrament meeting told the story of the time she basically kidnapped a homeless man in a wheelchair, and I laughed at the absurdity of the situation.
- I drove from Utah to Arizona for Christmas with a car full of strangers. We became fast friends and we laughed.
- I stayed up way too late with two of my favorite people in the world watching videos on Youtube and laughing until my stomach hurt.
The last year of my life has been hard. It has been hard and exhausting and there were times when I didn't think I would make it through. But I am here and I can say that even though it sucked a lot of the time, I laughed. In fact, I laughed until I cried.
