a lot has changed pt 1

WHERE do I even start???

Alright. So I decided to move to the Pacific Northwest to discover what life has to offer.

Let's get back to that in a minute.

So I have been job searching since January... a tedious process and somewhat depressing since NO ONE was calling me back.

Fortunately my amazing friends that I met on care.com (LOL) set me up a few gigs to walk and keep their dog, and I was also able to dog/house-sit for another family.

That, along with my Poshmark sales was able to sustain my spending on nice shampoo and Zaxby's.

Somewhere between everything... I decided that I needed to move... I wasn't having any luck with the job search and decided that I needed to physically get out there. Fortunately, I have amazing friends who said I could stay with them while I job searched. So I had it set up that I would move the last week of April. My older brother also decided that he was definitely coming on the road trip.

My brother contacted me the end of March about working at the daycare where my niece and nephew attend school (fortunately, he and my sister-in-law are BFF with the daycare director). SO I picked up work for about 3 weeks and... it.was.hard. I have a new found respect for daycare workers. Picking up babies, changing their diapers, feeding them, changing them, rocking them to sleep, entertaining them, keeping them alive..... is very very hard. I was sore and tired... and maybe don't want kids for a few more years. Phew! But I picked up a little extra cash and that was super nice.

It was also great to get out of Dothan and have some new scenery as well as hang out with my brother, sister-in-law, niece, and nephew.... especially the littles bc they are so darn cute and call me "aunt yace" UGH heart-melt.

By the end of my daycare assignment, it was mid-April, I went home and started packing and trying to visit with family as well as job search (I had been job searching the whole time... sometimes I would take a few days off.... but I applied to at least 3 or more jobs a week, and sometimes 5 a day). So that was most of life for Spring.

To be continued...