one year ago. in august of 2011. i was here. on top of the world with my best friend and our pups. i was happy. excited. scared. anxious. nervous. elated. i was preparing to leave utah, my home of nine years, and move to iowa. the place where i had grown up. i had a new job there. i would be close to my family. i'd get to see people and do things that i hadn't seen or done in almost a decade.
i moved to iowa to manage the ski shop at scheel's in iowa city. it rocked. i rocked. people were shocked all winter when they could talk to somebody who REALLY knew skiing. and i was a girl to top it off. i sold a lot of skis. i made some decent cash. i made a lot of really great friends. but it wasn't long before the mountains called me. all the way from the west.
i took a couple ski trips to utah. one in january. that was epic. literally. in a year when it hardly snowed anywhere in the united states. i managed to be in utah for the one week of the year that it snowed for almost an entire week straight. i knew a guy who used to call that "livin' right". this was when i knew that i belong here. not just because it snowed for the whole week that i was here. but because it felt right when i was here. life felt right. i was with my best friend. and kenai was with his best friend. we were all happy. and the world seemed right.
i got a job at QBP. moved back to utah. started mountain biking. spent a lot of time with my bff. got the pet-sitting business back up and running. tied up some loose ends i had left when i moved to iowa. made some really great new friends. and realized that this is where i'm happy. so naturally i got pre-approved for a mortgage and started shopping for a house.
now. in august of 2012 i'm here. on the front porch of the house i'm currently renting. writing this blog. thinking about what a crazy. fun. exciting. scary. full-of-change. year it has been. in 11 days (barring any unforeseen catastrophe) i will close on my very first house. 2929 vanburen street. its cute. brick. 3 bedrooms. 2 bathrooms. fenced yard. basement. 2 car garage. everything i wanted in my first house.
