It just hit me few minutes ago that it's been two years since I landed in California. Well, not definite if landed is the right word since I drove cross-country with what I can fit in my sedan. In the span of these 24 months, I'm still trying to process everything that's happened: moved to 3 places during that time, started and left a job, started a new one going on 5 months, made and lost friends, relationship ending, dog passing, son getting into a bad accident that he's still recovering from, gone on a ton of one-off "dates" for possible friends or even potential boyfriends maybe?, along with random hookups, starting from scratch in a second city, along with living close to my parents for the first time in 20+ years.
I'm using this again to document my day to day stuff to have something to go back to as well since my memory has been shit over time. The new city I moved to has been nice overall, it's got a small town vibe and a bigger city amenities and just taking a little getting used to since it's about 90 mins away from my previous residence. Took a gamble in a way since I've only briefly visited this city before coming up to look at potential places to rent when I heard back about this current role that I have that I didn't think I landed. It's in the Cybersecurity field which I've been trying to crossover into after having pigeon-holed myself in desktop support/sys admin kind of roles. There were something about my previous coworkers too that I'm still trying to figure out to this day that just robbed me off the wrong way.
A "friend" that I knew from the East Coast visited me for a few days so that was nice to spend time with him for a longer amount of time. I'm not even definite what kind of relationship we have, deeper than strangers but shallower than friends in a way. There were some things we talked about, but kinda stayed in the surface other than us getting physical time and time again. I remember periods where I pulled away from him completely since I wasn't sure what we're in for, or even why. And yet, here we are 10+ years later. He's one of multiple people I keep in the periphery, as to why I hope to discover in time since I'm prone to doing so. We had a great time overall, he's funny and witty so a lot of banter throughout the 72 hrs of his visit, hitting up a few local watering holes, and visiting a car museum and Schulz museum for a special member's only reception where they unveiled this year's Great Pumpkin in time for Halloween.
(Publishing now and going back later since I'm going to the movies)
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