2 Down

On April 11th Jason and I celebrated our second wedding anniversary. I cannot believe that we have been married for two years already! By far the best years of my life. Jason picked me up from work, as he usually does, but on this day he waited for me in the lobby holding a single rose. SO CUTE. He looked sooooooo handsome and the moment I saw him I could not stop smiling. When we got to the car he had a bouquet of red roses waiting for me. Ugh he's perfect.

We celebrated the evening with a night out in Salt Lake. We walked around temple square, ate waaay too much food at Tucanos, and got ourselves a modern airbnb apartment downtown to spend the night {which was super convenient for work the next morning considering my building was two blocks away!} It was nice to have a night alone with my love. He is my world and I could go on and on about how much I love/appreciate/depend on/respect/obsess over/confide in/adore him... but I won't ;)

I've come to realize that I have a special place in my heart for Salt Lake {I know I was raving about it in my last post, but this is for different reasons}. This is the city where Jason asked me to spend forever with him. This is where we held our wedding reception and spent our first night together as a married couple. For our first anniversary Jason took me back to the spot he proposed, so it only seemed fitting to spend our second anniversary in this city where so much of our story takes place.

I sure am obsessed with the life we're creating together and I know it's only going to keep getting better. Two years down with an eternity to go. I can't wait ♥

S a l t L a k e C i t y

In my last post I mentioned that I would have a couple weeks until I started my new job downtown, but it turns out my start date got moved up two weeks because my background check processed much quicker than anticipated. So it's been a minute since then (okay, a lot of minutes) which means it's time for some catch up! I've got lots to share.

Let me tell you about my new-but-doesn't-feel-so-new-now job! I work for a company called Novitex. It was actually the first job I applied for after leaving Discover, and the only one I ended up interviewing with before receiving an offer of employment. Huge blessing for me because I absolutely dread the whole job search and interview process. Fun fact: I've been offered a job at every place I've ever interviewed for. Jason was blown away by this when I told him because he said that just doesn't happen.

I was more than a little intimidated when I arrived for my formal interview because it just so happened to be in one of the nicest buildings in Salt Lake City. Something I wasn't aware of at the time of the interview was that the position I was applying for was a document processor and coordinator for Goldman Sachs {the big dogs}. So even though I work for Novitex, I work in the Goldman office, amongst Goldman employees, and for 8-10 hours a day I manage critical Goldman documents. So yeah, you can bet I was nervous!

The day after my interview I received a call saying the job was mine. I was thrilled! Jason took me on my first real shopping spree once I accepted because I had zero business professional outfits and the shoes in my closet consisted of moccasins, snow boots, tennis shoes, and my four year old church flats. {I'm not much of a shopper haha}. My wardrobe is definitely thanking me.

As of right now Jason and I share a car, which really just means that Jason drives me everywhere. We do our best to be very budget-minded and we've done the math to know how much money we're saving with only one car payment, one insurance payment, one car to put gas in, and no monthly downtown parking fees. We have managed to make it work and we actually really enjoy the time we get to spend together right before and after our work days. The traffic is a different story, but we're learning to exercise our patience ;) Luckily for us Jason's job recently moved to a different building which is only ten minutes from downtown, so it's doable. And completely worth it.

Last thing I want to share is some personal advice. Leaving a job that made me overwhelmed, anxious, stressed, and unhappy was one of the best decisions I've made. At Discover I constantly felt like I wasn't doing a good enough job even when I was working so so hard, I felt micro-managed, and I dreaded work every single day. It was not good for my overall happiness and mental health. I stuck with it because I was scared that I wouldn't be able to find a job soon enough that I would enjoy any more. It took an absolute horrible day of work and a complete breakdown for me to realize that I needed to take a leap of faith and take action to make my life better. And let me tell you, it is so much better. There is nothing in my life I have to complain about. I love my job. I love my co-workers. I love that I feel productive every day and that what I'm doing is important. I love that I have a supportive husband. I even love that I have the opportunity to work as much overtime as I want. I've worked 11 hour days and I still come home in a great mood! Ultimately, if there is something in your life you are not happy about, figure out what you need to do to change it, and do it.

Also, I've fallen in love with downtown Salt Lake.

 

 

I know I'm probably way to detailed in my blog posts and no one realllllly cares, but I also wanted to mention how happy it made me to walk out of work on Friday to sweet Scarlett! And of course Britta, Austin, and my hubs :) Austin was selling his camera to a guy he found on KSL that works in my same building, so we bumped into them on our way out and ended up making a spontaneous Cinco De Mayo date out of it! We ate dinner at Red Iguana and then did some City Creek shoppin'. It was so fun to run into them so randomly. Seriously what are the odds???