I think I can do it

So I have been really bad about keeping this blog up. I admit it, it is my own fault. But I have been doing one regularly (once a week) at work for a while now and I think I can keep this one up.

So I will also try to post once a week here, maybe I will do them one after another so I don't forget.

But for now I am going to post one tonight.

It has been a roller-coaster for me lately. I live 1500 miles from my family. This is something new-ish for me. I have been doing it for just over a year now. For the previous years I have been within a 3 hours. I have times where I find myself making 2 minute phone calls home just to hear my parents' voices and then I have moments where I am just living it up out here. So it is quite interesting.

As I type we are nearing the holiday season and it does become a little more difficult for me. I have always enjoyed spending the holidays with my family and this may be the first year I don't spend it with them. I know I cannot afford to fly home for Christmas and I really do want to be out here for Christmas (not just for the skiing). So it is hard. Fortunately I have friends that I can be around and I have several families that have "adopted" me to make sure that I am not lonely when holidays such as Thanksgiving and Easter roll around. So I am looking forward to it, but I admit that it has been tough lately as I haven't really spent much time with my dad in over a year. We both have crazy schedules so it makes it tough to coordinate seeing each other. I am just hoping that the economy will rebound and that I will be able to actually have some money and visit him or pay for him to visit me.

That is enough for now. I will try to think of some heady things for the next blog. Until then...