I have sat down at least a half a dozen times to write this post.  Not that this post in particular has any significance.  It’s just that I have neglected my blog for the better part of a year.  Where do I even start?  Should I forget about chronicling the last year and just pick up with now? (Did I really just use the word chronicling?) But then again, what is the now without the then?

The last time I was posting consistently, I was in the process of moving to Florida.  Deciding to move was probably the biggest decision I have ever made.  I don’t think I let myself feel just how big of a decision that was.  If I had?  I’m not sure I would have made the same choice.  Now I have lived in Florida for over a year, and I’m happy.  Happier than I ever was in Utah.

Everything didn’t fall into place right away like I naively thought it would.  The job market was terrible.  Businesses weren’t looking to hire in the fourth quarter.  I went three months without so much as an interview let alone a job offer.  I kept getting the same question over and over.  When are you going to give up and come back home?  While that may have been the easier choice, I never considered going back to Utah as an option.  I was here to stay.

Three months of unemployment was hard.  In the past I had spent a lot of time fantasizing what it would be like not having to go to work every day, but it was nothing like I imagined.  It was isolating.  It was lonely.  I knew next to nobody, and that made for some sad times for me.

I eventually did find a job, and that’s where I’ll pick up on my story.

posted by Olivia Singleton
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