By the end of April, I felt relatively at home in my new surroundings. Megan’s apartment was on the border of Minneapolis and St. Paul, just down the road from my new office. It was also only a ten-minute drive from Josh’s place. The rent was cheap, and the company was [...]
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My life was in flux, and as much as I longed to nail down all of the unknowns, I just had to be patient. I’d been jumping through hoops for potential employers, and I was anxious to hear back about two jobs in particular. One was a challenging position that would build on my publishing [...] It’s Blog Jog Day, Mother’s Day, and my 33rd birthday! Blog Joggers: Please explore all my blog has to offer, then jog on over to quirky pickings. First-time visitors may notice that Divorced Before 30 doesn’t feel very “bloggy.” That is, I don’t typically write about my present-day life. This is a “blogoir” (blog meets memoir), and [...] I’m interrupting the regular flow of my “blogoir” (that’s part memoir, part blog) to participate in the Ultimate Blog Party, which seems like a great way to discover new blogs and connect with new readers. ***** Life was humming right along in December 2006. I was spending a lot of quality time with my girlfriends, staying at Josh’s condo in Minneapolis a couple times a week, and enjoying a cushy living arrangement in my parents’ basement. Just when I was finally feeling stable, one of my closest friends took a crushing blow. [...] Mom and I filed into the theater, surrounded by shorties dressed to the nines in velvet, tartan, and patent leather. We were, quite possibly, the only unaccompanied adults at the Children’s Theatre Company’s production of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Mom and I are both suckers for anything Christmas-related, and when she offered [...] It was a few days before Thanksgiving 2006, and I paused over my Sunday morning coffee to take stock of my life. It had been only three months since I’d left my husband on my lunch break, and today, I was divorced, living in my hometown, and rediscovering myself by shedding the anxiety that had [...] The Friday after my hospital rendezvous with Josh, we had plans to get together with his book club, a handful of college basketball teammates and their significant others. Now that I was with Josh, I’d been invited to join the group, and I must admit that I loved the idea of a coed book club. [...] It was Tuesday night, and I should have been out on my first date with Josh, who was hopefully sick. I say “hopefully” not because I wished him any pain or discomfort, but because if he wasn’t sick, it meant that he was a) full of shit, b) flaking out on our [...] I answered his eloquent electronic gesture with: Hey there. Finally got the computer up and running and changed into my “work clothes” (involves polar fleece). Tucker was glad to see me but will no doubt need some serious exercise later today. Me, too. Thanks for the song. It’s beautiful. Yeah, I am feeling very smiley myself. I know [...] |
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