So I've been avoiding this blog for a while, not really sure why. Not going to use the excuse of not having the time because I know you make time for things you want to do...I wasn't intrigued with writing on here, didn't feel like I had anything going on worthy of talking about....but things have definitely changed! Looking back to the beginning I seen the original reasons I created this blog, one was because it was on my project zero list, which is now completed. The other reason I stated was I created this blog for ranting, which I find particularly funny because when you're ranting about something why would you want it up on the internet? But there was also another reason I created this blog I didn't mention. It was a way for me to keep in touch with my family, particularily my cousin Julie because I think she's the only one that reads it.
Since it's been so long since I've been on here I'm trying to figure out how it works all over again...but from what I've come to discover throughout life, re-learning a skill you have in the passed tends to come back faster than learning it for the first time.
There is now a fourth reason I have this blog, to practice my writing skills for the English classes I've been taking in school. Yup, finished up the Geophysical Certificate I was taking at SAIT, now I'm back to working on my Bachelor of Science Degree at MRU. It's really a lot of work. I'm taking two courses right now, a pre-calculus course (realitively difficult) and an English/Social studies course (painfully boring, but it's a must take GEN-ED class so I have no choice, I have to complete ten GEN-ED's for my degree. So far I've completed one). When I look at the past couple years of my life I sometimes wonder if I'll EVER be done school.
So there have been a lot of changes in my life since January 2012, although I wasn't far off to predict that it would be one of the best years of my life. It certianly had its speed bumps, but I ended up meeting the most amazing person along the way. Before I get to that you need to know about my promotion with Husky. Around February last year I was approached by one of the geophysicists in another department. Their geophysical tech was going to be retiring and they had their eye on me as a replacement. I had a bit to consider, a geo-tech job is very technical and can be pretty difficult on certian days. Especially when doing geophysical work, there are formulas to use, very technical computer skills, databases, data manipulating, etc...basically it would be like starting a brand new job from the beginning having no experience. Although I had finished all of my certifications I wasn't sure if I was ready for such a huge challenge, I contemplated this for months. Eventually I decided to hand in my resume, I sumbitted it online to the manager looking along with one of my papers on The Big Bang theory from school, just for him to get a bit of a chuckle out of. Needless to say, I wasn't very serious about this interview. There were 21 other applicants, two of which were interviewed as well, they ended up loving me and offered me the position. I took it, and man was it ever a climb. There is SO much to learn, I've been doing it for nearly a year now and still have so much to learn. I'm excited for the most part but it is a bit difficult to balance this job with my school workload. Learning all day at work then going to school to learn more all night can be exhausting, but I make it work. Sometimes it gets to be too much and by Thursday night I'll calm my nerves with a couple brews after I get home, but that might also be because I'm taking two classes this semester as well, so I'm in school 3 nights a week.
So back to this amazing person. Well my first day in my new position called for me to have a bunch of installations done on my computer for all the new programs I would be using. I called our IT service desk and a pretty cute-sounding guy answered. I told him all the installations I was going to need done and he began helping me out. We ended up being on the phone for 3 hours while he remoted into my computer and completed each installation one at a time while I watched him work from my end. To kill some of the time we steared our conversation to the way of where we grew up, our favourite beers, school, and more. Things really seemed to click with him while having this conversation and before I knew it the day was ending. It was 5pm and we had to finish up the installations the next day. So he called back and we continue the next day, it was about another 3 hours of remoting into my computer finishing up his jobs. I was beginning to get a bit sad when he finished up all the jobs because we would have to let each other go on the phone and I'd probably never talk to him again. I had found out he worked for an IT company that contracts to Husky, he did not work in my building. Something in my gut told me if I didn't jump at this now I'd never get a chance to talk to this guy ever agin...so I went for it and awkwardly asked if he wanted to meet up for a beer sometime after work...he kind of hesitated at first but ended up agreeing and we both quickly hung up the phone. This was the beginning of the Easter long weekend in April 2012. I went the entire weekend feeling like I made a mistake, but my girl friends and sister assured me that it was brave of me and said "good for you" like they were proud. So I just went with it.
The IT guys and I tried to meet up a couple times which never played out too well and eventually settled for meeting after work on April 25, 2012 for drinks at an irish pub downtown on 8th Avenue, James Joyce. I chose this day because I was on my semester break with school, no class for a week. Now originally we were going to leave this as a blind date but in this day and age we decided to add each other to facebook so we knew what each other looked like. I was really not expecing a blue-eyed blondie. He was super cute but not what I would have considered as my type. So when I first walked in to the bar and seen him playing around on his phone waiting for me to get there I wasn't really sure if it was him. I gently kicked the bottom of his foot as a playful "hello" and he looked up at me. I was all full of energy and all excited...being my jumpity self. Back then I would have never known this but the look he was giving me was his "I love you" look (pointed out by friends of his later on to me in different situations when he gives me that same look). Before I left to meet him I remember Scott at work told me to talk slower (I tend to talk a hundred miles a minute when I'm excited about something). That's exactly what ended up happening. I don't think this IT guy got a word in edgewise for about the first half an hour. Our conversation eventually turned to things that we have in common we didn't expect to...and somehow we began talking about the flying dragon/dog in The Neverending Story and were trying to remember it's name, I had to text my sister to find out...Falcor. We were both still so nervous and each time he left the table I'd ask our waitress if she thought it was going well, I'd ask her if it looked like he was into me. I was pretty uneasy because I had just gone on a horrible date a few nights before that was just a disaster. The waitress played it cool and said he looked like he was into me, she thought he was having a good time. Little did I know this IT guy was asking the waitress the exact same thing each time I left the table, so I'm sure she must have gotten a kick out of it because she didn't let on, and eventually at the end of the night we both confessed to each other we'd been asking the waitress if she thought the other was into us...too funny.
We really clicked on our first night out, the next date was a bit different. We had wanted to go to the Comic Expo on Saturday but there were way too many people at it that the fire marshall of the BMO centre said no more people were allowed in the building, so with that plan scratched we went to a pub off of 4th Avenue which looked to be what a lot of people ended up doing. Comic Expo in Calgary is kind of like Halloween, a lot of people dress up as their favorite cartoon character to attend the expo, some years they have contests, some costumes are so elaborate. Needless to say we seen batman and quite a few other characters at the pub since no one could get into the expo. We were a bit disappointed we didn't get to go get a bunch of signatures at the expo but tried to enjoy the back up plan best we could. So anyways, the cute IT guy was on call with work and happened to have to fill a few calls, so he pulls out his laptop and chugs away on it while continually appologizing to me...it was too funny because I really didn't care. I was enjoying my beer and doing some people watching. After he was done working we ended up jumping right back into our conversation from the other night...and that branced off into a few others. I felt as if we'd known each other a lot longer than two dates, we kind of did in a way. We had been texting for about a month before we went on our first date. We got to know each other a bit that way and better prepare ourselves for meeting each other. It was kind of cool. In the late afternoon I ended up having to leave (I was going to a friend's kids school fundraiser that evening - it was a silent auction with a "chocolate" food theme on the side, they call the fundraiser death by chocolate, in which case there really was a lot of chocolate). So anyways, we had to cut our second date a bit short, and although we didn't get to go to the expo we still did get to do a bunch of getting to know each other.
The following week we went to a movie mid-week, this was when I started feeling like things were moving a bit fast...I hadn't really inteded for this to turn into something serious, and while we were there I definitely felt like we were boyfriend and girlfriend, I didn't think I was ready for that in the least. I ended up telling him I needed a bit of a break, some time to myself to figure out if I was ready for this sort of thing....we didn't see eachother for about a month until the May Long weekend. Now I know this is a big step for couples, the meeting of the family. Because of how family oriented I am I didn't really think of it as him meeting my family at first but rather more just including him in on my plans. We spend the weekend with my parents, sister & her boyfriend, and my Uncle Cal and Auntie Louise (who where the first extended family members to meet my new guy). The weekend turned into quite the success.
This blue eyed blondie was really growing on me. Eventually we took the big "I love you" step. My friends tried to convince me to let him say it first, which was what I intended. Then it just popped out of my mouth one shopping trip at the mall. We were looking for neon themed costumes. My sister and her boyfriend were throwing a neon party for their 5th anniversary. We just happened to be walking along and my blue eyed blondie says to me some sort of joke then "I...." with a bit of a lull in it, I didn't let him finish I just blurted it out, I love you too. He was pretty shocked because what he was planning to say was some sort of joke and I just jumped to conclusion. He was pretty stunned so we sat down for a second, it was kind of cute. He then replies I love you and have been wanting to tell you but didn't want to scare you off. I had been experiencing the exact same thing so I definitely knew where he was coming from, I kept wanting to take things slow, but me myself...well I wasn't doing anything slow at all! Inviting him to big family events, saying I love you...it all felt so right. I was very hesitant for a while because I wasn't sure I wanted to be in a serious relationship (after the last one I had). It turns out that it was one of the best things to happen to me in 2012, meeting this IT guy. Logan. My blue eyed blondie. My Lo. He loves the nick name I gave him. He has nick names from everyone in his family, Logish, New, Logie, and the list goes on. But he tells me that no one has ever called him Lo before. It was my very own special nick name for him.
So from this long story I'm guessing you could easily guess that we've been together since. It's been ten and a half months and we're every growning stronger. I finally understand that whole "dating your best friend" scenario. I never got that before but finally I'm with someone that I have so much in common with. We have fun no matter WHAT we're doing and if it's just the two of us that's ok too. We have fun just the two of us, which is also something I've never experienced. I used to think you could only have fun with big groups when being in a couple. Logan is so helpful around my condo, he does tons of regular chores all the time without me having to even ask him. He's just so wonderful. He supports me in any way he can, when I need that pick me up after a bad mark on a test or just a stressful day he gets me back up on my feet feeling great again. He has been such a complementing part of my life and I couldn't be happier that he's in it.
So concluding with some advice from How I Met Your Mother, "Sometimes things need to fall apart to make way for better things." I find this to be a quote to sum up my 2012 because although it started all shattered and broken, it lead me to one of the most miraculous parts of my life...my Lo. And I just couldn't be happier!!!
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