Sometimes I really hate being a grown-up because it generally means you have to make grown-up decisions. These past few weeks we've had to make some tough decisions about the future, and the outcome was not what we thought it would be. Almost a year ago, we felt this urge that we needed to move to Logan after this school year was over. There was a possibility of a good job up there for Scott and we felt that Logan would be a great place for us to settle down for a while. As most of you know, living in Price has not been my favorite thing in the world. Besides having to drive the most dangerous highway in Utah to get to the nearest Target, it's just a whole different life style than what I grew up with.
Well, over the last few months, we have started to feel like Logan is not the place for us. I don't think it would be a bad thing to move there, I just don't think it would be the best thing. Our back-up plan was to move to SLC, where I could transfer to the SLC office for my work and Scott could work free lance for the company he worked for before we moved to Price. As we thought about it, we realized that didn't seem like the right move either.
Scott started looking online and applied to a few different places around the country. He had an interview with a company in LA. Some days we felt good about possibly moving to California and other days it just didn't feel right. The cost of living was the thing that scared me most.
So... one day Scott was looking through our local paper and found a job listing for a place here in Price. It was for the position for a manager at a local Verizon store. Jobs like these are rare here in Price and so Scott decided to give it a shot and apply. He was called the next morning and was set up for an interview. He passed the first interview and had a second one and they offered him the position. We honestly thought our time in Price was coming to an end but this just felt right to both of us. In the 3 years we've been married, we've never had 2 full-time incomes so this is going to be a really nice change.
I'm really glad that I don't have to leave my job. It's a really great one and I've enjoyed it more than any other job I've had. I'm also glad to be staying in our house here. When we were looking at moving, we were going to have to downsize and I couldn't figure out how we were going to fit all of our things in a 2-bedroom apartment.
I've really grown to love Price, and when we thought of moving, I would get really sad thinking of leaving all of my friends, and my great ward. I'm excited that we get to stay here for a while longer.
But I am still hoping that our next stop is Missouri. When I think of the future that's where I see us, and we always say that's the next step but we get a different answer than we are expecting.
Thirty minutes... that is what I set the timer for. I have had no motivation whatsoever to do anything all week long. So I decided that I would set the timer for 30 minutes and during that time I had to do chores. No distractions. Just as much work as I could do. I kinda felt like I was in adult time out. Punishment for days gone by with no housework.