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It’s been a long time, and I don’t think about the show no more.

I want to go home……I want to go home.

Home, its been a foreign word for me for almost two years. That’s not to say that I did not like or appreciate the places I have stayed since the winter of 2005, its just that they weren’t mine. For those who know me, you know I am a very independent person, and its been a rough two years having to depend heavily on others. It was an interesting role reversal to say the least.

Almost two years ago I had to make a hard decision, live out of my car or go bankrupt renting when I was working a job that only paid $10.26/Hr, or admit I need help and move back down to Cincy to live with mom and dad for a while. I made the trip back with only a portion of the things I had collected over the years, losing most against my will. After a couple of weeks of searching, I landed a job working a 6 month project at Children’s Hospital. I made some friends and had the time of my life.

After the project was over, the company moved me up to Columbus. Still short on case I asked for a favor from my Cousin Andy and his girlfriend (currently fiancee and soon to be wife this Saturday). I asked them to let me “rent out” their spare bedroom so I could move back up to Columbus. Until Wednesday of last week, I’ve spent almost a year and a half as their roommate.

Yesterday, with he help of Katy (a sort of John), I moved the first of my stuff in my new One Bedroom apartment. I was getting the PVR computer system setup, when I flipped on a rerun of Scrubs. The message of the episode was that sometimes things happen for a reason. I am not over the bitterness I feel to the events that happened in November of 2005, and honestly I doubt I ever will be. What I do know, is with out that event in my life, I would probably not be as successful with my career as I have been. I would have never taken the project in Cincy. I wouldn’t have made the friends I did down there. I wouldn’t have ended up working for the same company here in Columbus, which led me to meeting some very close friends. I wouldn’t have received the offer I did to specialize in Information Security with the current company I’m with.

As much as I hate to admit it it took rising from the ashes to be as sucessful as I am today. I did not make this trip alone, so thank you to all who helped get to where I am today. Thank you for bringing me home.

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