if you want something in life, reach out and grab it

i'm not exactly certain where to start on this one...i'm really not certain where this one started. did it start over a year ago when megan moved to germany? did it start memorial day weekend when i took a trip to iowa? or was it somewhere in between? maybe there was no specific moment when it started. maybe all of these tiny little moments culminated and now here i am. regardless of when or how the one thing i do know for certain is that this is where the universe wants me. wanna know how i know? because everything down to the teeniest, tiniest detail was orchestrated perfectly for my life to take this path. and it feels natural and right. it feels good.

this part goes out to the people like the ones who told me that i couldn't raise an australian shepherd puppy: don't tell me that i'm making the wrong decision here. if perhaps there was one point in time when you did know me that doesn't mean you know me now. if perhaps there was one point in time when i valued your opinion that doesn't mean i value it now.

so. here i stand on the precipice of a grand and new and lovely adventure. a new direction. i stand at the threshold of change. i needed change. big change. i have for a while. life was getting a little stale here. not the beauty though. the beauty of this place could never get stale or old or even boring. you've seen pictures. i can still visit. and i will.

soon i will bid farewell to this desert that i have called home for the last nine years. i will pack up my soob and hit the road. i'll drive with my favorite co-pilot to iowa. where i spent the formative years of my life. i'll leave my job at salomon. there are a few people that i will truly and genuinely miss working with. i will then begin a new chapter of my career with scheel's in iowa city. i am more than excited about this oppotunity and the change it is providing me.