2/2/05

It’s official. I’ve been living in Pennsylvania for over a year now. I arrived one year ago yesterday to be exact.

What a year it’s been. With all the life changes that I’ve gone through, I’m surprised that I’m still sane. I’ve always said that I don’t like change but over the last year, I’ve gone through so much that even if I don’t like change, I’ve grown accustomed to it.

When I first got here a year ago, I was alone and surrounded by strangers except for my fiancee at the time. I wasn’t real sure how my job was going to work out and where we’d be living in a months time. I was scared about where my life was heading because I hadn’t really planned anything but jumped in feet first with my eyes closed.

A year ago I was a broke single guy who was engaged to a woman whom he hadn’t spent much time with in person and who had a baby on the way, living in a house with his fiancee and her mom and scared to step a foot out of line because he didn’t want to end up on the street. I wasn’t sure about my job or the people that I would work with. I had no plans for the future but was just getting by day to day.

Now things are so different. I’m married to a beautiful wife who loves me as much as I love her. We have the cutest baby girl who brings us such joy and love into our lives. We’re living in our own house and controling the debt I’m in. We’ve made plans with what we want to do with our lives and the things we’re going to do with the house. I love my job and the people I work with. I’ve made some very great friends here.

To say that my life is different now would be an understatement. Nothing is the same as it was. That’s a fact of life though and one that I’m really learning is true. In the next year, all I can forsee is more change and I can’t be happier thinking about everything that life will throw at us.