We Did It.

In less than six months we drove from Missouri to California, added two new additions to our family (birds, of course), found a place to live, got a job, got a car, and finished my first quarter of graduate school. And, well, I've been much too busy to write.

I started this blog to simply document our time in transition, and I think were are the end of that period. I feel as if we've fully transplanted ourselves into completely new lives.

But I do want to wrap up this story to wrap up the memories we've made and the journey we've started here.

While school was stressful and overwhelming, I learned so so much. I feel 100x more intelligent than I did when I first started. My brain is no longer on hiatus. I am super excited to learn all of these new things and how to apply them in the real world - which is great because my job is evolving into exactly what I wanted.

I'm still able to do graphics and social media, but I'm also doing a good deal of program development, marketing, and I/O consulting. I'm throwing in the latter in small places here and hoping to be able to use it for my internship hours. In short, I'm doing pretty much everything I love. I get to sit in my own office, drink coffee, listen to good music, and push pixels around. They say to find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life, and that is how I feel.

Who expects to reach that point at 22? I sure didn't. I didn't even know what I wanted to do with my life up until I got accepted into graduate school. I feel like I finally have some purpose. I don't know if I will work there forever, but it's one hell of a start.

I'm very excited about the way life is unfolding for me, and I consider myself very lucky to have things fall in my lap this easily. Sure, I get stressed and upset and pushed to my limits at some points, but I can honestly say that I am becoming a better, smarter, and more socially competent person every day. The bad things that come along are no longer life destroyers, they are mere annoyances. I'm not stricken with fear about the future or where I am going.

So here we are. We did it.