...and finally a fastball

so i have done exactly what i vowed not to do when i started this blog: taken a 6 month hiatus and completely ignored it.  part of it was for good reason as i'm sure most of you don't want to hear sob story after sob story about how much i was failing in getting a job among many other things.  i started this blog as something i would enjoy to keep me and my followers upbeat, and for the most part i was feeling sorry for myself about not getting what i wanted when i wanted it up until about the end of january. 

with baseball season in full swing and my job currently nothing but baseball, i thought it was only fitting to reference the past 8 months with a baseball metaphor.  it started back in september when i finally caved and moved back in with my parents after not getting offered a job within the UAB athletic department like i thought i was going to.  that was the first of many pity parties i threw for myself over the next 8 months.  it just felt like everytime i would step up to the plate i would get curveball after curveball.  i knew what i wanted to do just didn't know how and when i was going to get there.  finally, one day in late january i got a call from the university of washington wanting to interview me for a position in their ticket office.  the call went well, but when i got off the phone an email was waiting on me from the colorado springs sky sox triple a team.  my heart was beating 100 miles an hour as baseball was the one this i wanted to be a part of since i can remember.  and to top it off, it was in one of the most beautiful states in the country.  after a phone interviews and a lot of praying i got an offer.  speechless i had finally broken in to the business i have waited all my life for.  it was like i stepped into the batter's box that day and my eyes lit up as i finally got a fastball right down the middle that i could connect on!

needless to say the lord absolutely does work in mysterious ways and His plan is true no matter how many times i wanted to say it wasn't and how many times i wanted to disregard it.  moving to colorado and working in baseball has been a dream come true!  new best friends, working at a ballpark, family, and a steady paycheck.  i can honestly say that when the fastball came i didn't miss it!!

and i live here....
  and work here!