.all i want for christmas is you.

so ends my first week in Columbus and my first week at the dispatch. and i'm halfway done. i'm not quite sure how i feel about this.

the job is going great. i've gotten a lot more video experience than i originally thought and i'm loving it. the funniest thing is the guy who's teaching me a lot of the video stuff, his dad and mine actually know each other because they both work for the same elevator company. how random is that? anyway, it's been a really great. i'm learning a lot and they've been really impressed with how much i know. yesterday they kept asking me if i really had to go back to school haha. and since i do, my editor also mentioned that they might be able to send me some small projects while i'm at school, and i'd be working on basically a freelance basis. which would be fantastic (not that i have time).

columbus has been pretty fun as well. i mean, i just like the city, and i've been driving around a lot of and finding my way places, which is always satisfying. i also had dinner with one of my dad's friend's family, which was fun. i did way too much talking though. when did i become so outgoing? but every time i get into a situation where people are asking me about all the things i've done and how i've done them, it really makes me reflect, and it makes me so happy with my life i could just burst. i think that's why i end up talking so much. i need a place for all that feeling to go.

then thursday i went to dinner with adam! i haven't seen him in forever and it's been a really long time since i've gotten to just sit and chat with anyone from home. so adam and i were never super close in high school, but i think we have a lot more common ground now that we're both out on our own. since not many of my friends from high school left new middletown, it's hard connecting with them on a certain level, because our experiences are so different, and it's hard to understand one another. so it was nice getting to talk about that with adam. even if his hair was super long :-P

one week gone, which means only one more week until i go home for christmas!!! i love the holidays so much, and i love spending christmas with my family. so this excites me. however, with one week down, i'm also sad, because that's one more week that parker's not here and i'm desperately wishing for him to be. i can't tell you how many times i've thought about calling up the airport in london, or something crazy like that, and just demanding and yelling for them to put him on a flight. although, they might not appreciate that. so it might not help. i just really want him here, and i want him here for christmas more than anyone can even imagine.

so i'm crossing fingers and toes and eyes and whatever else i can do to make sure he's here. soon.

i think i'm going to actually get down to christmas cards right now. not a lot of gift exchanging going on this year (thank god, because meghan's funds are almost nonexistent hah), but christmas cards and homemade stuff are always more fun :)


xoxo.m