Time flies when you're finally happy!
Wow! I can't believe I haven’t written in over a month! I will do my best to portray all my updates but forgive me if I leave anything out.
Let’s set the scene: right now, I’m sitting in Mark’s condo in Westfield in front of his new LED flat screen TV that is 55 inches! (ok I may have just bragged there but I didn’t even know they make TVs that big!!... it was Mark’s gift to himself for getting a raise at work). There are boxes everywhere, furniture taken apart and stacked away, and all my clothes are scattered everywhere in Mark’s office. We have been living entirely out of boxes and in Mark’s small room for the past two weeks, because next week OUR HOUSE CLOSES AND WE CAN MOVE IN NEXT WEEKEND!!!
I gotta tell ya folks, I am so happy right now! I am two weeks into my new job and loving every minute of it! I can’t remember if I specifically said where I’m working or what I’m doing so just to reiterate: I now work for the IU School of Medicine’s Cytogenetic Laboratory as their Data Manager. Basically Cytogenetics is a branch of genetics that is concerned with the study of the structure and function of the cell, especially chromosomes (I wasn’t sure what it was at first either) so our lab is a clinical lab that does testing on samples (bone marrow, peripheral blood, tissues, product of conception, and fetal demise to put it nicely) sent to us from hospitals and clinics from around the country to report back if the chromosomes are normal or abnormal and if they’re abnormal explain the conclusions of the abnormalities. Trust me, when I first accepted this position I had no clue what any of that meant. My job is to register the samples when they first arrive into our database and prep the paperwork to give to our lab technicians so that after the tests are ran and the results are found I get to be the one to report out the results (I wish I had paid better attention to the genetics portion of my freshman biology class… gene nomenclature is a completely separate language!). But it’s definitely never boring! There’s so much to learn everyday and I know that every sample I register and every result I report out is making a difference… whether it’s letting a pregnant mother know that her fetus won’t be born with down syndrome or any other early detectable genetic disease or helping a doctor finally figure out what’s wrong with a patient (usually cancer unfortunately) so that they can treat them accordingly. I may have just over-glorified myself there a little bit, but these are honestly situations I get to deal with everyday and whether the results are good or bad at least I can take some pride in being able to feel like I’m contributing in life…. not just sitting in a cubical making sure people log their training hours (I don’t even have a cubical anymore woohoooo!). Plus the people I work with are great! Everyone seems to genuinely give a shit about what they are doing and do their best to work as a team. Even though all they see are the samples and the names that go with them, the lab techs care about the patient and do an awesome job at making sure they are rapidly and accurately getting the results back. Thank God I’m out of corporate capitalist America!!!
So as for my personal life: I am completely in love with Mark and I know he feels the same for me! Living together these past few weeks has been great! I have honestly never felt like this for anyone before. I’m not sure I can even use words to describe the powerful feeling, but I think that’s how you know it’s real. He is the most considerate, caring, supportive person I have ever allowed into my life and I do everything in my power to be that exact same person to him. What’s in store for our future? Well we have definitely discussed marriage and basically are just working on our timing (money)(… because that’s what “timing” ever really means anyways). Right now we’re just focused on moving into our house, settling in, and building our funds back up and we’ll move forward when we feel we’re ready (not when everyone else thinks we are… I’d get into the comments people make about us living together without a ring on my finger but that’s a whole other blog! I’m choosing to live practically not traditionally people!).
I can’t express enough how glad I am to be out of Peoria. I’m glad I can say I’ve done the whole move away and be miss independent thing which was great and really helped me grow up (which I may have needed more than I’m willing to admit), but when it came down to it, I love my friends and family and hated always being 3 plus hours away from them. Granted I would never move back to Crawfordsville but I know that any evening I want I can just hop on interstate 74 and go see them in a matter of 45 minutes to an hour and be back in time to still get a good night’s sleep and go to work in the morning.
Life is good.
Let’s set the scene: right now, I’m sitting in Mark’s condo in Westfield in front of his new LED flat screen TV that is 55 inches! (ok I may have just bragged there but I didn’t even know they make TVs that big!!... it was Mark’s gift to himself for getting a raise at work). There are boxes everywhere, furniture taken apart and stacked away, and all my clothes are scattered everywhere in Mark’s office. We have been living entirely out of boxes and in Mark’s small room for the past two weeks, because next week OUR HOUSE CLOSES AND WE CAN MOVE IN NEXT WEEKEND!!!
I gotta tell ya folks, I am so happy right now! I am two weeks into my new job and loving every minute of it! I can’t remember if I specifically said where I’m working or what I’m doing so just to reiterate: I now work for the IU School of Medicine’s Cytogenetic Laboratory as their Data Manager. Basically Cytogenetics is a branch of genetics that is concerned with the study of the structure and function of the cell, especially chromosomes (I wasn’t sure what it was at first either) so our lab is a clinical lab that does testing on samples (bone marrow, peripheral blood, tissues, product of conception, and fetal demise to put it nicely) sent to us from hospitals and clinics from around the country to report back if the chromosomes are normal or abnormal and if they’re abnormal explain the conclusions of the abnormalities. Trust me, when I first accepted this position I had no clue what any of that meant. My job is to register the samples when they first arrive into our database and prep the paperwork to give to our lab technicians so that after the tests are ran and the results are found I get to be the one to report out the results (I wish I had paid better attention to the genetics portion of my freshman biology class… gene nomenclature is a completely separate language!). But it’s definitely never boring! There’s so much to learn everyday and I know that every sample I register and every result I report out is making a difference… whether it’s letting a pregnant mother know that her fetus won’t be born with down syndrome or any other early detectable genetic disease or helping a doctor finally figure out what’s wrong with a patient (usually cancer unfortunately) so that they can treat them accordingly. I may have just over-glorified myself there a little bit, but these are honestly situations I get to deal with everyday and whether the results are good or bad at least I can take some pride in being able to feel like I’m contributing in life…. not just sitting in a cubical making sure people log their training hours (I don’t even have a cubical anymore woohoooo!). Plus the people I work with are great! Everyone seems to genuinely give a shit about what they are doing and do their best to work as a team. Even though all they see are the samples and the names that go with them, the lab techs care about the patient and do an awesome job at making sure they are rapidly and accurately getting the results back. Thank God I’m out of corporate capitalist America!!!
So as for my personal life: I am completely in love with Mark and I know he feels the same for me! Living together these past few weeks has been great! I have honestly never felt like this for anyone before. I’m not sure I can even use words to describe the powerful feeling, but I think that’s how you know it’s real. He is the most considerate, caring, supportive person I have ever allowed into my life and I do everything in my power to be that exact same person to him. What’s in store for our future? Well we have definitely discussed marriage and basically are just working on our timing (money)(… because that’s what “timing” ever really means anyways). Right now we’re just focused on moving into our house, settling in, and building our funds back up and we’ll move forward when we feel we’re ready (not when everyone else thinks we are… I’d get into the comments people make about us living together without a ring on my finger but that’s a whole other blog! I’m choosing to live practically not traditionally people!).
I can’t express enough how glad I am to be out of Peoria. I’m glad I can say I’ve done the whole move away and be miss independent thing which was great and really helped me grow up (which I may have needed more than I’m willing to admit), but when it came down to it, I love my friends and family and hated always being 3 plus hours away from them. Granted I would never move back to Crawfordsville but I know that any evening I want I can just hop on interstate 74 and go see them in a matter of 45 minutes to an hour and be back in time to still get a good night’s sleep and go to work in the morning.
Life is good.