One year down

I’m a few days late with marking the occasion, but it has been, officially, one year since I have moved to Vancouver. So much of my life has changed within the past year. Wrapping my head around it just gets too confusing, not to mention all the other projects that I have going on in my life right now. That’s not too bad for a guy who can’t legally work in Canada yet, but my time is coming.

Rebecca is so much a piece of everything that I call my life now. We figured out a long time ago that distances were too tough to keep us from each other, and the fight to get this far has been something we have done hand in hand. Our little home in the west end is more happiness than I could have ever imagined. That’s not to say that life has been a walk in the park. I just have an incredible partner in crime to push through it all.

I also haven’t left British Columbia, or even this country, since I came here. Moving so far away from your family is never the easiest thing to do. You leave behind everything that you have known to learn everything all over again.

I still have a slight problem with deciding which way is north. That might sound silly, but I grew up in a flatter evironment and about seven degrees further south on the latitude. There is even less sunlight up here in the winter, and the snow is only seen if you head to the interior.

Even after a year, there is still a lot of changes to get used to, but that’s what life is. I always had this thought in my head that my path would lead out of Iowa one day. I also understood damn well that such a venture would not be easy. Little did I know that it would lead me to Rebecca, moving to another country, and taking on the biggest change in my life.

The strange thing is that so much of my mindset has changed from just thinking I can do this to nothing can stop me now. Naturally, nothing in life is perfect or comes easily, but you make the best of what you have of it. Bumps in the road happen. You adjust and keep going. Rebecca and I do that everyday. It’s all about having fun, and we get to do that in the greatest city in the world.