October 17, 2012

Navigation

I seem to have dropped off the blogging radar the past few weeks. I feel like I have started this post ten different ways. Yet...I've found myself at a loss of words. Or maybe the better way to describe it....is I couldn't find the right words.

I have officially been in the land of Las Vegas for the past two weeks...Which of course meant saying goodbye to Cedar. How does one say goodbye to a place that has grown to mean so much? Well. I still don't really know the answer to that question...mainly because I'm terrible with goodbyes... Though to be honest...it wasn't really Cedar that was tough to say good-bye to, (who likes to be frozen for a whole winter...) it was the people.

I met some of my best friends there. The kind that slide down the stairs on cookie sheets, brush your teeth for you on those nights when tiredness steals away your fine motor skills, stay up late just to bake or jump through rain puddles. The kind of friends that stay there through thick and thin....and thicker. I'll forever be grateful for them...especially this past year. Looking back, I was blessed throughout even the smallest of moments...Which resulted in slight teary-eyed goodbyes.

But just as every chapter ends....A new one starts.

Watching my family drive away after moving me in....I thought, "This is it, I actually live here." A thought that still pops into my mind at least every couple days. Living here has been an adventure in itself. I don't know what has been more fascinating to me..... The seven zillion cars driving around, stores for everything you could ever think of thinking about, bus routes (I don't know why that is so interesting...), countless bright lights, the lack of cold days or the constant motion.

Not to mention.....there are even multiple Walmart stores within a few mile radius! That sounds like it would be great. But for someone who gets turned around almost just walking out the door...it has been a quest. Lucky for me. My grandma...being the wonder woman she is...gave me a GPS upon moving here. Something that has been one of the best tools in navigating my way just about everywhere.

However. I haven't mentioned the best part of this chapter. In all of my imaginations....if you would have asked me a year ago if I could see myself living in the land of casinos...I would have laughed. That is of course, until David came into the picture.

So, yes. Vegas has been different then any place I have imagined. But to be here with him....has made it a perfectly exciting adventure. Seeing him everyday....is much better then the computerized skype version of him. Truth be told, I have loved to be here with him.

The best part about being in love with someone..... there is always something new you can learn. The best part about loving someone who is like your best friend...learning those things...figuring it all out...is fun. So even if that means I have to learn to work on my navigating skills, I wouldn't trade it.

I also wouldn't trade the spending my evenings with David, with his furrowed brow look, studying everything from head to toe...literally. Or even just watching episodes of Smallville....(Advice...don't start watching it! Walk away. Or else, you'll inevitably fall into its enchanting powers...the only remedy is to donate part of your life to finishing the seasons). He is so witty at times, and never fails to make me feel better.

And even though being here meant leaving Cedar, I'm still happy. A place or distance doesn't determine friendships. Besides....with technology...I'm sure teleporting is the next thing to be developed.

Life in Vegas? Stay tuned. 

Also. In case you were somehow wondering, this post was written while being serenaded by glorious Christmas music......68 days until Christmas...58 days until we get married!

Not that I'm counting...