Regroup and Regrow

It seems like a month of Sunday's since I've written anything... so the beginning of 2013 is as good a time as any to post. 

First... note to self, email daughter to update blog decor.  Woefully outdated.  lol

Second... wow, REALLY?  2011?  YIKES! Now I'm just embrarrassed given the monumental events of 2012!

As I write, I am sitting in a hotel room in Washington, DC.  This is not an unusual thing.  It's my life.  Let me back up...

In early 2012 I was working on a position in Nevada, thinking living closer to home would be good enough.  And it would have.  Except something better came along and I was able to take a job thata let me relocate from NJ to UT and working in Washington DC.  I know, head scratching, isn't it?  Here's how it works... every other week I fly to Washington and spend the week (sometimes two) at the Child Support Agency for the District, the weeks I am not flying I am telecomuting and working from home.  Home now being Salt Lake City. 

This began in April. Gordon, big brother,flew out to NJ at the end of March and drove from NJ to UT with me. Took a week.  Started the new job the next week. 

I love my job.  The company has been good to me.  The role of Business Analyst is significantly different from NJ to be challenging and give me new things to learn.  I am also very pleased to be working with my friend, Lori, again.  We worked together in NJ for the first year I was there and the chance to work with her again was a huge bonus. 

I love that my job let's me LIVE in SLC.  I KNOW... hell was going to have to freeze over before THOSE words crossed my lips (or fingertips).  I cannot confirm a frigid drop in temperature there, but I suspect it cooled down a few degrees.   It is great to be back near my family and especially with aforementioned daughter. 

So that's the move stuff.  And the job stuff.  All terrific and just fell so neatly together that I KNEW it was meant to be.

Speaking of meant to be... on Christmas Day I got engaged to a wonderfully sweet man.  I don't know if I mentioned it to too many people but whenever I pleaded with the Universe for a soulmate I had the distinct impression that I had already met him.  It confused me, because I couldn't imagine who I was supposed to recycle.  Well, it turns out I was not supposed to recycle anyone... thank goodness... because while I had indeed already met 'him', we were nothing more than work aquaintenances. 
 
While we met back in the 90's, we didn't really become friends until March 2011 when he had become friends with my brother (real friends).  It was when he became friends with my brother on Facebook and saw me on HIS list that we reconnected.  Even then we were just friends. It wasn't until I had moved back and we started having lunch occassionally that things changed. By the end of July, it was clear that we were meant to be ever so much more. 

And we are.  So much more.  And so very, very good. And will be getting married on July 27, 2013!!

To be sure, this is the Cliff Notes version.