i just can't stop

i'm addicted to spilling my beans! i know that 4 blogs in one day is really just too much but i figure since this is day one whoever may be reading this might want some background info and i'm all about the background info.

thats right, i'm the girl who will turn the response to "how have you been?" into a full fledged life story. i can't help it, i've always been this way. so please allow me to at least glaze over some things.

uh i think i left off with our decision to move in together in Carthage. yes so I moved at the beginning of August 09 and started school a week or 2 later. i was already on the job hunt from the moment i got here but still no luck a month in. class, however, was going well and i was really enjoying it. i love to meet new people and have new experiences. we started our 1st year vet tech class with like 29-ish people and we finished this may with 16 i think. some didn't last through week 2 because they realized this wasn't for them. others fell short with grades or had attendance issues. anyway i like that we've pared down the classmates bc now the remainder of us are serious about what we're doing and trying to do well. but i digress...

so October rolls around and after dropping off 6 or 8 resumes for a week or two before that i get an interview with a same day hire october 5th. my interview was great bc the doctor was doing surgery the entire time we were talking. anyway, I now work for Banfield, the Pet Hospital at two different locations in Jackson. my title is PetNurse, which i secretly love :) and i have been learning SO MUCH. not one day goes by where i dont learn something at school and/or work which makes me so happy. i hope that i can still say that 5 years from now.

anyway, here i am - making things work with barrett and loving life. the past 6+ months haven't been all rainbows and smiley faces tho. my commute to school every morning was about an hour and 20 minutes which started to really wear me down after only a few weeks and a source of major complaining for me. aside from that, barrett and i went through a major bump right before thanksgiving that i wont get into the details of. but it was rough for a little while and i wont lie, its still in the back of my mind sometimes. we're doing pretty great lately though. it helps a lot that i'm out of school for the summer and since we both go to work in the afternoons (i'm part time and he works 2nd shift at the plant) we get to spend a lot more time together <3>

I'm just really happy at how things are working out for us because a majority of our relationship was semi-long distance when he graduated the year before I did. so to go from that to 24/7 cohabitation with only a few snags is pretty good i guess.

alright i'm fairly certain everyone (all 2 of you) is pretty well informed as of now...