Big life changes

It's been a while...


I just realized its been over a year since my last post. A ton of things have happened since that last post.
Firstly I haven't been feeling like myself for a while. I was super depressed, had a hard time focusing on anything, had absolutely no energy, was gaining weight like it was going out of style and then my hair started to grow in really weird, super brittle and wiry and then lots was falling out. I asked my dad, who is a doctor, what was wrong but he told me I was just getting older. HAHA! I wasn't even 30 yet and I think he just didn't want to think that his daughter could have something wrong with her. So I started doing research in scientific journals and found that I wasn't just "getting older" and my problems weren't imaginary. I got tested and was diagnosed with an auto-immune disease, Hashimoto thyroiditis. It's been a year since I started being medicated and finally got a specialist to see me a couple months ago. I'm feeling much better but I know this will be an ongoing problem that I will have to monitor for the rest of my life. I'm just happy that I figured out what was wrong and am now working on being happy inside and out.

Second! Chris and I bought a house! We were getting in a super stressful situation renting as the amount of rent kept going up and up to an almost unaffordable amount. We realized that we would be paying much less in mortgage payments and so we took the plunge and found a house to call our own. We've got a bunch of little projects in the works. We want to build a deck in the back yard, do some painting in some of the rooms, update the lighting and bathrooms and reface the fireplace. We tackled the gross carpet in the living room in January and installed hardwood floors. This place is starting to feel more and more like home.

We also adopted two rescue puppies a few month ago so life has definitely started to revolve around taking care of them and planning activities with them.
 been to music festivals, installed hardwood in our new house, adopted two rescue puppies and now planning our activities for the summer (including a triathlon... so i need to get in shape!). I also bought some new makeup so I definitely have a bunch of picture to show everyone.

Sidenote, I thought I had posted this when I wrote it. Which was over a year ago.