Brushing off the cobwebs...

Well, at least a little bit on this old blog. 

Fact: I have not posted since July when I got my scruffy little black dog, Moche.

Fact:  I have been reluctant to post anything since I got my scruffy little black dog, Moche.

Opinion:  The past 6 months have been forgettable, and well...sucky.

So the truth is, settling back into life in the US has been much harder than I wished it would have been and I sort of feel like the last 6 months, I've been trying my best to run as quickly as possible through all the muck and mire that is cultural re-adjustment. 

Have you ever tried to run through knee deep mud?  It's not a quick process.  Nor has feeling comfortable in the states been.   I have a lot to be thankful for here though. And please don't get me wrong, I am thankful for my job, my family, my scruffy little black dog, Moche and for this period of pruning in my life.  But that's what this period has been and is.  Pruning.  And I am most certain that all 3 people who will read this blog post can recall a time of pruning.  It hurts.  It's not fun.  But it is what it is.  And what it is, is beneficial.  Maybe not seemingly so right now, but it will be.

The thing that has been the hardest (but will also prove to be the most rewarding) has been spending the last 8 months in a long distance relationship.   As much as I don't fondly look back on these last 8 months, I know wholeheartedly that Jamesson and I have grown so much through this.  So much so as a matter of fact that I, the girl who never believed that I could ever love someone as much or more than I love myself have realized that I, in fact, love someone much more than myself.   (cue up cheese-fest music).  This I am confident- we wouldn't have gotten this far in our relationship without these trials.  And therefore, though I may say it with a slight twinge of acrimony...the difficulty has been good.

Anyway...all that to say I think I'm going to start blogging again.  The light at the end of the tunnel seems to have turned on again.