New Year, New Me

2019, here I come!

 So, this year is starting off with a bang. Quite a great deal has happened in in the six years since my last post. In May of 2012 I was living with my parents, single and working a desk job. By the start of 2013 I had met, been camping with, and was headed on a pretty major trip with a man I was seriously dating.

We had a once in lifetime, though apparently some people have enough luck to have experienced it multiple times, experience to go on and all expenses paid trip to the Marlboro Ranch for five days and four nights. Being in Montana in January is an experience all to itself. When you add on the ranch and all that was included, it was definitely in the top five experiences of my lifetime.

By the start of 2014, I started a a new position at the company I was working at and participated in a few mud runs. I moved in with my boyfriend and was considering going back to college for business.

2015 greeted a completely different me. I lost my desk job, so my school plans got cancelled. I spent about five months soul searching on unemployment. I volunteered at a dog sheltered and eventually got a job at a dog kennel. In one day I became engaged and added a puppy to our household.

As 2016 rang in, I had started grooming dogs and was getting ready to start a new venture as a mobile pet groomer. Grooming had become a new passion for me.

Before 2017 started, we set a date for our wedding and managed to plan and execute said wedding in less than six months. It was everything I could have ever hoped for.

2018 left me a little battered and humbled. I went into a competition a little too confident and while, for my skill level, I did well enough, I certainly was out of my league. There was a lot of loss and it was all felt very deeply.

Now as we ring in 2019, I find myself once again very changed. I spent most of the year pregnant and shortly before Christmas I saw my daughter in person for the first time.

Life has most certainly changed since 2012 and I can only hope for the best.