Singing In My Corner

When I was little, my mom would put me in time out. After a while she started to notice it wasn't working. This was because I would sit with my nose in the corner and make up songs. I would sing to myself until the timer went off, and then I would frolic away singing my new song, happy as a clam. So lately I've been put in a corner, and I'm trying to make the best of it. Thus, the title of this blog entry.

In the last month or so I moved to Evanston, Wyoming from living off of Capitol Hill in Salt Lake City. Just to put that into perspective I just went from a downtown population of 191,000 people, to a place with 12,000. Where there were once fire engines going off at night, and planes flying over head, there's now a whole lot of silence.  I was a 10 minute walk from downtown Salt Lake City, and City Creek shopping center, and now I'm about a 10 minute walk from the Wal-Mart. I'm also not working yet. This has left me to my own devices from 4:00 AM until 5:00 PM when Joe gets home. I was also just starting to make really good friends in SLC, which I've only ever had a few of, and now those "really good friends" don't really talk to me. It's a lot of change, it's a lot of heartache, and it's been a process for me to cope with, but I think that soon enough I'll finally settle into a groove.

When we moved in, there were at least 20 people from our new ward that came to help. It was such a blessing, and they were all so nice. In the weeks that followed meeting all of those kind people, that kindness did not continue through the rest of the town. Everyone we encountered outside of our ward was incredibly rude, and wanted nothing to do with us. Mind you, I may not be the nicest human on the planet, but Joe IS THE EPITOME OF KINDNESS! And I will tell you what, they were rude to him too. Every grocery store visit is met with a grumpy cashier, every dinner outing is met with rude waiters, and I'm starting to go out and just expect people to be rude to me. I get having a bad day, or week even, but dang Gina! There's a song about this, y'all! "Why you gotta be so ruuuude."

On a positive note, last week we finally got our couch and a washer and dryer 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 had no idea how hard life was without those! I'm actually doing the Dirty Dash with a bunch of girls I don't know, one of them is from my ward, but they all seem really rad. I'm also applying for jobs, and signing up for full time school next month! Woohoo! Anyway, I'm doing my best to stay busy, and sing in my corner. God has a plan, and I don't know what it is yet, but I'm sure I'll be just fine. Sorry that this wasn't so much a story, but more of a life update/journal entry. Hope y'all are doing well, and that you have an awesome week ❤️