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Showing posts with label over. Show all posts

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Welcome Back!

So, there's really no excuse for how long I've been gone. It's been a long 7 months but I'm ready to come back now and get this thing going again. However, I suppose I owe anyone who had been reading this before an explanation of sorts, so here it is..

The reason I stopped writing here was pretty complicated. I was living in Oklahoma with my sister and my brother in law, who recently welcomed my awesome little nephew. I was in a relationship for two and a half years that started to completely fall apart. The distance from the situation as well as anyone to discuss the issues with who knew the guy were extremely straining, in addition to the tensions due to lack of sleep from everyone in the house was too much for me to handle and I was then offered an ultimatum: come back to Connecticut and we fix this, or stay there and we'll call it quits.

In a hindsight kind of way, I stupidly and selfishly quit my job, left my family behind, and went home to try to make things work. I now know how stupid that was, because only two weeks after returning home, the relationship was ended. Done. 

We tried to make the end something we could look back on happily for both of us, but after all is said and done, I realize how ridiculous the whole situation was. Regardless, for a while after that, I was mourning the loss of the best friend I had relied on for years and a boyfriend who will more than likely never speak to me again. But to each his own, I suppose.

So, after a more than long enough hiatus, I was working a lot of evenings at a bakery and not really functioning properly. I've met someone new through that job, unexpectedly, and we've been together for 4 months. We've spent an unreal amount of time together, which would explain the lack of posting for the last couple of months, but things are changing now for the better. 

So, after a long-winded explanation, I'm ready to start "new". I've been uploading videos to YouTube for a while now, which has taken up a bit of time but I've been having a lot of fun with it and hoping to expand a bit more as I learn things. You can check out my videos (many of them involving my sister, Hannah) by searching DivineMissE on YouTube. 

I hope everyone's been doing well the last half-year I've been gone. Let's do this, and welcome back.


Thursday, September 12, 2013

Starting Over?

Hey everyone!  I have some awesome, horrible, terrifying, and sad but also happy news.

I'm moving to Oregon...(I think...)

In the last post, I had mentioned having to move again after living on my own for five months because of a whole long story, and I've had so many different ideas and suggestions going through my head for the last couple of weeks I could probably throw up with how dizzying it all is. 

At first, a friend of mine (Jess) had offered for me to come down to Richmond to live with her and her husband.  Then, my older sister and my brother-in-law offered up their spare room in Oklahoma.  

Now, I had tried to find a place to live on my own in southern Connecticut, then in the entire state of Connecticut, but I just can't find a place here that I can realistically afford on my own.  So I had broadened my search to the surrounding areas (RI, NY, MA) but only found a very, very small selection of options.  Playing around with ideas, I looked into Portland, Oregon.  My older sister and I had gone out there with my dad a few summers back to visit my aunts and cousins and honestly, I really love it out there.  After our week vacation was up, I really didn't want to come back to Connecticut.  The weather is almost always beautiful, there's minimal snow (which is great for me), and it's so much cheaper.  

I'm still very torn about the whole situation.  I've always wanted the chance to move to a different state, but now I'm nothing short of having a panic attack over it.  I've always said I kind of hate Connecticut, but I'm hesitant to actually leave.  I know I'll have a job wherever I go, but I know I won't have a car.  No matter where I go, I know I'm going to have to sell all of my things except my clothes and my laptop and just leave.

While that idea sounds liberating, it also sounds terrifying.  Imagine someone telling you that you have two weeks, drop everything, pack what you can carry, and move across the country.  Scared yet?

Sorry this post is kind of a downer, I just don't know what to do at this point.  Here are some pictures from my last Oregon visit.
Courtney, Dad and Me at the beach


More beach pictures

PDX Airport with Courtney
Mountains in the distance