When the Smoke Clears…

photo credit: wsil­ver

Life has a funny way of rock­ing the boat at the most inop­por­tune times. To lose my job two days after propos­ing to my fiancee is some­thing out of a TV show. How­ever, what it turned out to be was a won­der­ful oppor­tu­nity to pur­sue a job damn close to the job of my dreams. No, it is not per­fect, but it is awesome.

Katie and I had hardly real­ized that we have been engaged for a month. We’ve been so dis­tracted with the new life and adjust­ing to it, that we both real­ized late in the evening while we were check­ing out at a Publix.

Dis­trac­tion is a frus­trat­ing thing. So often I get dis­tracted and for­get what I was doing or say­ing. I have been so dis­tracted by my new life that I didn’t real­ize just how long it had been since I took a leap and snagged the love of my life. And, when the smoke cleared, from it, from the lost job, from the pro­posal, from the new job and the travel — I real­ize that I’m extremely happy.

Love is know­ing that you can’t live with­out the other per­son. And I can’t live with­out Katie.