#09.04.13

Learning to Cope When life throws you a curve ball, all you can do is learn from it and move on.

Wow, I haven’t written one of these in a while. Needless to say; Hello! I hope that any who had been reading while I was on Wordpress followed me here and liked the way Tumblr is set up. I know I do. I am still working out how I want this part of my Transitions Blog to look so please bear with me a little while longer.

Well as far as what has been new with me…. Hrmmmmmm… let’s see:

1)      As of about May-ish I have moved back in with my parents and my boyfriend of four years and I broke up. There were many reasons to go with why we split but the crux of it all was that our communication was terrible. I am happier and less stressed for it, and I have moved on with my life happily. But that is not to say that it wasn’t the most painful experience, and choice of my life.

2)      I have left the stamp job that I had gotten for a cleaning job that will turn into an office job where I can have the opportunity to travel around. I work cleaning a lab and the people I work with are the most entertaining and sweet lot I have ever met. I love my job; however it does wear me out massively. Very long hours that spans many different buildings. So I am exhausted.

3)      I have begun playing Guild Wars every second I can spare to be with friends again that I kind of left behind when I moved in with my Ex-Boyfriend. I actually am getting better at the game and enjoying it more than before. There have been a lot of changes to the system and the storage of the game but I won’t get into detail on this particular blog.

4)      I ended up with a new boyfriend already. Kind of fast right? Well to be honest we were really trying to go slow but it just ended up that we were on a rocket ship. He and I have been talking as friends for a while, but then we expressed an interest in each other so he came down to see me. (He lives a while away from me) asked me to be his girlfriend, and has been taking me out on a couple dates. I am seriously the luckiest woman alive to have caught this man. He is handsome, brilliant, funny, and a total geek like me. But he actually plays games with me AND he lifts weights, runs, and likes to get into shape. My family loves him, my friends love him and are jealous of me. All in all… it feels like a fairy –tail and that I am going to wake up any minute to find out that it was a dream. It hasn’t yet but it feels like it. I am the happiest I have ever been with him.

Yeah, that has pretty much summed everything up. I have gone through some ridiculous changes and they all happened so quickly in about a months’ time. It had my head spinning and for a little while there I was so stressed from the changes that I had hives.  NOT FUN!  NOT AT ALL!

But I have my body mostly under control right now. I haven’t had any hives in weeks and I have gotten used to my job and living with my parents again.

I don’t know if I had let you know in a previous entry or not, but over the summer last year we had gotten a puppy. Her name is Sofie and she is half lab, half Catahoula Leopard Dog. She is the sweetest thing ever and I love her tons. First one of our dogs to actually bond with me first before Mom and Dad; and needless to say I am beyond excited about it. I finally got a dog to love me more than Daddy! HA HA!

She has grown pretty dang big in the year we have had her. She is now 57lbs and all of that is muscle, I swear she is worse than a bull in a china shop. But hey, that’s my baby girl, always wrecking everything and being a super klutz.. Exactly like me. Sofie loves my boyfriend more than me when he is here…. Typical that EVEN THE DOG LOVES HIM!

Now I have been working on a new story. I really like what I have done so far but I get writters block and then I get distracted. And I don’t make progress in it. Eh, as is my life I suppose.

The best way I find to cope with all these changes and challenges is to sit back, pull yourself out of the fray and look upon the chaos with a critical eye. Find where you can get rid of things in your mind and in your heart that are only causing you trouble, and obviously get rid of them. Then take what is left that you have and find out what the problem is and see if it is something that you have to fix yourself or if you can ask someone for help. Then focus on the solid and good things that haven’t been touched by the chaos of your life, and just remember what those moment, those people have made and will continue to make you feel like.

That is how I am going at it anyways.

Thank you for reading this update and what not. I hope that you have a great rest of your day. Remember , change happens. How we handle change is what makes us who we are.

@louteasdale

Harry leaving the hotel in Newcastle today!