I know its been almost a year. Honestly I had giving up on my blog. It was a few different things that stopped me but my Mom mentioned the other day she missed reading my posts and it is quiet therapeutic for me to write some of my feelings out. So to get you all up to date on my life in the past year here is the readers digest version of my year.
I spent the past year working at Grandma Tobler's Bakery. I was kind of managing the bakery. I had the manager title but the owner was there all the time so I really only managed when she was out of town. I enjoyed my job. I was doing what I loved every day. I got to create delicious foods every day. I had a hard time with some of the drama there but no matter where you work you are going to get that.
While living in St. George I made some great new friends and became reacquainted with some wonderful old friends. I miss it every day.
Starting in the end of August I started having some hip pain. I thought it was just a pulled muscle and thought it would go away soon. after a few weeks of it getting worse those around me convinced me to go get it checked out. (I really didn't want to go get it checked out I still thought it would go away on its own) then after a really long hard day at work I was in much more pain and went to a doctor. He said the pain was from my back even though it was hurting in my leg. He gave me some steroids and said it should feel better in two weeks. If not I should have an MRI. Not only did I not get better but I continued to get worse. I had the MRI two weeks latter on a Thursday (October 10th) My Mom and I decided I couldn't work like this any more and I couldn't live on my own with no job. I went into the bakery for my shift after the MRI, talked to my boss and didn't even finish my shift that day. My Mom, Older Brother Adam, and younger sister Noelle decided to come and help me pack up and bring me home. They arrived at my house around 1 AM Saturday morning. We (They. I mostly watched because I had a hard time moving let alone lift anything) and we headed back towards Idaho Saturday afternoon. It was the quickest move I have ever made. When we got back to Idaho I tried a few different things to fix my back. PT, shots, and rest. I ended up having back surgery a week before Thanksgiving. They fixed the herniated disk and I was on the mend. I was hoping for a quick recovery but because I was so bad before the surgery(not only was my hip in pain it moved down my calf and my foot would go numb all the time) so because I was so bad the PT said it could take up to a year before I am 100% and I will always have a weak back.
I now have a very part time job. I work at a local pizza place 3 days a week and only 12 hours a week. The first week was really hard for me. I didn't think I would be able to keep the job. But now after the 3rd week I am feeling more hopeful about it and I am looking for a full time job so I can move out on my own again and get back to normal life. I love my family and I am so very grateful for them and wouldn't change moving home for the last for anything. But I am ready to move to the next step.
Now that you are all caught up with my life I am going to try and write on here more again.
I am so excited for this upcoming year. New opportunities, new places, the sky is the limit. Once I find a job and catch up on the past few months of being unemployed I can go anywhere and do anything. Part of me wants to do a big move and a big change and move somewhere far away. Maybe back East. But the realistic part of me will probably move back to Logan or Salt Lake or something like that. I've had lots of ideas for my life but I haven't made any decisions on what I will or want to do. Some of my ideas are going to school and getting my business degree so I know what I'm doing when I open my own bakery, working hard at a job and living very frugally so I can go to that cake school in Chicago, maybe changing my career plans altogether and just bake at home for fun. Like I said the sky is the limit and I can do anything I want. Its just so hard to make a decision. I just need to keep thinking and weighing all the options.
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