a year

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.