Life is Good....

This post might seem like it's a drunk/high post, but I assure you it is not.

After reading through a few threads tonight, and thinking about things, I just wanted to start a thread about life being good.

First off, I've basically grown up since posting on this board. I've been posting here since I was fourteen, and knew nothing. Now, I'm 22, going on 23 in another month. When I started posting here, I was in a situation where my life was crazy. I had great parents that had just split, and things were horrible financially. We could barely afford to live, and life for my mom was just a struggle. We got by living in a small trailer in Magnolia.

Now, eight years later, I'm working as an x-ray tech (I know that's not the greatest job in the world, but I've got a ways to go from here yet), I'll be marrying the most beautiful girl in the world in October (she works as a registered nurse), we just bought our first house, have relatively no school debt/loans, and are loving life.

Seven years ago, we moved from Houston to New York, and I was depressed and thought the world was coming to an end. I wasn't a huge fan of New York (Not NYC...Western New York), and we lived in a bad part of town and had no money.

Then, I met my now fiancee. I've posted about her on this board (and been harassed about it many times...thanks Moes) for the last six years. She is the most beautiful person in the world. We've been inseparable for the last five and a half years, and this October, we're getting married. I'm nervous, but it's going to be the best decision I've ever made in my life.

We've grown together while establishing our careers, and have managed to stay together throughout tough times. Recently, we bought our first house. It's (and no offense at all meant to my parents) the nicest house I've ever lived in. It's in a great area, right where we want to be.

We both have decent jobs, like I said, make decent money, and have virtually no student loans.

Tomorrow, I go to receive what should be a job offer, at a place here in town that will be a perfect situation for me. This job will take my roundtrip commute to work from 118 miles (what it is now) to about 6 miles. Plus I'm getting more training/advancing my career, and should be making slightly more money.

My honey also had a job interview today, and should be offered a lateral-type transfer at the hospital she works, also. She's going to start specializing in an area that she is very interested in, which she's excited about.

Now, don't get me wrong, there are some things that I might change if I could (I've got two nephews living a thousand miles away, who I would love to watch grow up), but for the most part, my adult life is starting to blossom, and I just wanted to put it out there that I am loving it.

To go from where I came from, to where I am now, I feel absolutely blessed. I feel like I have tons of love to give to the world, and I will continue to give all I can, because I realized I am lucky, and this could all be taken away from me in an instant....

But, for every bad thing I hear about nowadays, I think about myself, and I feel even more lucky.




Sorry, I just had to share that with everyone. I'm on a late-night natural high.....

 

Yes, send your wife thanks for answering those questions of mine.

Actually my commute is going from all that driving down to virtually nothing. I put 17K miles on a brand new car in seven months doing that driving.

I will be getting CT trained at this new job, which is nice.