oh hey. here are some updates and stuff.

It's time. It's time to blog again.  It's time for the children to buy school supplies. It's time for monsoon season. It's time for Sodalicious to get a bigger location. It's time to tell you the news.

A lot is changing, and for some reason it's hard for me to make the announcement. I can't tell if it's because I feel like one of those people that's like "People, hey, all of these great things are happening and I feel like EVERYONE needs to know so I'm forcing it down your throat by posting it on Facebook and Instagram and Twitter and all of the places." I don't want to be that person. But I also don't want to be the person that everyone is annoyed with because they'll notice a major change in my life and be like "Hello! Why didn't you tell me that [this huge thing] happened in your life? I have to find out on Facebook/Instagram/Twitter! How dare you!" It's a lose-lose situation. The only win I see here is that I'm updating my blog. Ok, there are other good things about telling you what's up I guess, but I'll let you decide that. And now you're probably dying to know why I'm even talking about this so much. Here goes.

I got a real life grown up job.

Whew. There, I did it. I told you. Oh wait, there's more.

I'm moving to Salt Lake City. For the job. OBVIOUSLY. (Obviously I'm moving for the job, not obviously I'm moving to Salt Lake City.)

So here's the story. All about how. My life got flipped-

Just kidding, I won't do that to you.

Here's the real story. I ran out of jobs in about April (research jobs that ended at the end of the semester), and I needed a new one. I applied at my favorite place, Sodalicious (it's like Swig, but WAY BETTER). I got a job, and immediately fell in love. The people there are amazing, and I can't believe how quickly I felt like I belonged and had just made a bunch of new really great friends. I was planning on staying there for just a couple months until I officially graduated from school in June. Well, June rolled around. I officially finished school, walked away from that place with no to-do lists hanging over my head. It was a great day.

This is me and my sister Amy at my Sodalicious job. Obviously the apron is a perk. 

I kept working at Sodalicious, because, well, I love it. Eventually I started feeling like maybe I should do something with my masters degree besides stock cups and straws and frost cookies (not that I don't love doing that, because I do, but, you know). So I had to make a decision. My original plan, for a long time, was to move out east and get a job in Washington, DC. Well, that plan started fading, and I started thinking of a new plan. Maybe Salt Lake City would be a better idea. It's a big, fun, new city, like DC would be, but it's not so far away, I've been there a bunch, and I have a lot of friends up there, and maybe it wouldn't be as scary. So I started looking for a job.

I hate applying for jobs. But I made a goal to apply for five jobs every day (or as often has I had a couple hours to sit and apply). Once I made the decision, I realized the time crunch. I had about 5 weeks to get a job and find an apartment. I almost had a panic attack, but I decided to use that energy and put it towards applying for more jobs and using the Law of Attraction to send out vibes to the Universe that everything would happen in the time it needed to.

You really thought I would finish the story in one post? It's obviously waaaay too long of a story, and I can't leave anything out. Come back tomorrow for the good part.