One year later

Wow, I pretty much completely forgot about this blog. Since I'm sure no one reads it anymore, it'll probably just be a place to mind vomit. I hate that term, btw, but it's the most accurate thing I can think of.

Geez, where to begin? Since November last year, I:

• Applied for and interviewed at a bunch of jobs.
• Didn't get those jobs because of a lack of experience, even though every interviewer praised my choice to spend a year after school learning things I didn't have time to learn in school.
• Dated a girl for just over a month before I realized I wasn't that into it. It was my first time really just letting myself try something out I wasn't 100% sure I wanted. It was worth it, although I did feel I spent too long to figure it out. Learned something for next time.
• Started a business. I figured if I didn't have the experience I needed and no one would give it to me, I'd make my own. Kinda fell in my lap, but I ran with it for 7 months. It grew like crazy for a bootstrapped business, and it's still heading upward, although my stepdad is doing almost everything with it now.
• Dated another girl. Fell in love. Then got my heart really, truly broken for the first time ever. I believe it now when I read quotes that say you never really get over being in love with someone, you just learn to move on. I'm still trying to do the latter, and not succeeding very well yet. Learned that letting fear linger in a relationship is the quickest way to end it, no matter how thriving it is/was. Learned a LOT about relying on the Lord continually, and a LOT about how difficult it is to say "thy will be done." Most of my prayers are still "thy will be done, but if it's all the same to you, please find a way for this to still work out!" I'm still not sure how to move on, but the pain is more dull and less sharp now, so at least I can manage it a little better.
• Got a new full-time job. Looks like my plan to make my own experience paid off, since I interviewed for 2 jobs and was offered both of them. I'm working in a digital marketing company in Lehi, UT. My title is technically Enterprise Digital Marketer, but really I'm a Jr. Account Manager with a lot of room for growth. The company is exploding with new business and they're pretty aggressive with their pay raises. Feels so good to find some stability when life has shaken everything else up so violently.

That's pretty much everything in a nut shell. It's been one of the strangest, most unpredictable years ever. Haven't had this many highs and lows since my mission.

I'm looking for a new place to live, but I don't know if I could handle living alone right now. That may be one too many changes for me in a short period of time. I think I could handle moving somewhere with a roommate or two (or three) as long as it was still in my ward boundaries. Any more than that, I think I might panic. Probably in 3 or 4 months I could handle moving to a new ward? Not really sure, but I've learned to just take things one day at a time.

Anyway, that's about it! I don't think there's anyone to read this anyway, but it's always good to have a little recap in life.

Peace!