Let's Play Catch Up!

Wow, it's been a while, eh? A lot has happened since August. In a nutshell, here's the gist of it.

Softball turned out good. We ended up getting 4th place in the tourney. I'm so ready to start playing again. I could play year round. I met a guy during the tournament but I'll have to get into that later. It's really not "in a nutshell" type of story.

The ex got under my skin around the end of August. Some how he convinced me to move back to Utah. Something about things being easier. He would help me, give me money, and other stupid stuff. I got there and it was a nightmare. I was physically ill. I cried non-stop, X and I fought non-stop. It wasn't a good situation. Needless to say I moved back home after a week and a half. It's the best decision I've made since I left him a year before.

Moving back home was definitely a good thing, but hard. I had lost my awesome job and I really couldn't live in my parent's house any longer. My friend, I'll call her Tri, from where I had worked before offered her house and a bedroom for me to stay in. I was pretty weary about doing it because her boyfriend lived there as well and well...it made me a little nervous. I guess I was just worried about barging in on their life/relationship/thing/etc. I'm still living there and everything is working out fine. I look in the paper for good deals for rental as I would still really like to have my own place. But, I'm not in a hurry right now.

Losing my job was probably the hardest thing (besides dealing with X) that I had to deal with after moving to and from Utah. My aunt is in the process of building her log house and was kind enough to hire me to help. I actually really liked doing. Most of what I did was stack logs, lay decking and uh, that's about it. It was pretty neat because the majority of the work was being done by women. My aunt, mom, other aunt and I all did most of the stacking and what not. It was a lot of fun and very rewarding.

At my old job they ended up hiring someone else because I was a day too late in telling them that I was coming home and wanted my job back. After about 6 weeks of being back I got a call from the super. She said that the new girl had quit and she wanted to offer me my job back. I went in and talk to her and her manager and it went really well. I started the next day. They put me right back in like I had never left. The only problem was that I had to start at the bottom of the totem pole as far as seniority and benefits go. I started at the same pay, though, which was what I cared about the most.