Hoosier At Heart

     For those of you who don't know me, I wanted to give you a little background on my life, where I came from, and how I got to where I am now. This will be a brief overview without all the crazy details. Some details will come later in another post.

     I was born and raised in east central Indiana in a small town you've probably never heard of. It was a great place to grow up, but I soon realized it wasn't somewhere I wanted to stay forever or raise my own family at someday. There was nothing left in this little town for me. I graduated high school and was working two dead end jobs for almost two years before I discovered there was no more room for improvement here. I was stuck in a rut and things were declining awfully fast.

     At age 20, after a four-year relationship suddenly ended and left me so brokenhearted I didn't think I would survive (don't we all feel that way at first!?), I needed a fresh start and a new outlook on life. Within two weeks, I packed up my car with as many of my belongings as I could fit, recruited a friend, and drove across the country to live with my older brother and sister-in-law in Arizona; southeast of Phoenix. I will forever be thankful for my brother and sister-in-law who played a huge part in getting me out of that small town and allowing me to live with them for 2 years while I figured out this little thing called life.

     Nine months later, I had the best circle of friends any person could ask for. They were my family while I was so far away from all my family (except my brother). My life changed drastically in those first couple of years as I grew up, matured, and became my own person. I went back to school and got my associate's degree, brought my first (and second) brand new car, had a good, stable job that I could make a career, ran my first half marathon, left the country (Canada!), got a tattoo, and just enjoyed single life to the fullest!

     Two and a half years after moving to Arizona, I met KC (that story will have it's own post; it's a good one!). After about a year and a half and many, many, many trips to see him, I moved to Nevada (Viva Las Vegas Baby!) to live with him. And that's where I've been for the last year. We just recently moved out of his apartment and into a house that we can call our own, for now (it's a rental). We're considering getting a pet, but we'll see about that!

xoxo