Say You Will

Today was a pretty average day, with the exception of finally getting my check.  In case I haven't mentioned it before, Isa from HR (at AI.  I was a lab monitor for a few years in the dorm building) had called me while I was still in Detroit with news of an unclaimed check.  That was three weeks ago.  Four trips down to Philly and two paper work completions later, I finally have my check.  I had to have her mail it to me because she lost it.  It came in on Friday, I went for it on Monday.  Somewhere in that short time frame, she lost my check.  She searched for quite a while before we both agreed on mailing it directly to me from corporate office in Pittsburg.

Even though I am jobless, dirt poor, and am experiencing a major family ideal breakdown, I am quite happy with how things are going in my life so far.  I am certainly better off than what I was before going to school, and, although times were extremely tough at times, I got through school.  I finally feel like I've found where I belong.  And being out here in the Philadelphia region has nothing to do with it.

It's being in this field, where I've actually taken my hobby/raw talent and changed it to a skill that I can pursue a career with.  It's being with Andrew.  It's making things work.  It's finally realizing the dreams that I thought were so far out of my reach I could only look up at them, dazzled by their light in the evening sky.  "There's no way that could be me," I thought.  But here I am, and I couldn't be happier.

On an important side note, Andrew and I went out to eat today at a chinese restaurant near his house.  Of course he finished his food before I was even half way done with mine (he eats like a vacuum and I eat slower than dirt), but after that, he gazed at me with eyes that gave me butterflies.  They were so warm, so full of love... like there was nowhere else where he would rather be at that very moment.  There is nowhere I would rather be, either.  I've found where I belong.  Time to make everything else work.