It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything decent on here. Some could argue that I’ve never posted anything decent, though I’d beg to differ.
August was a whirlwind of a month for me. For those of you who haven’t heard, I interviewed for a position at Parliament in Portland on July 28, and was asked to start work the following morning. Totally thrilled and entirely caught off-guard, I rushed back to Corvallis to grab enough clothes to get me through the rest of the week. My friends Nick and Brad were kind enough to let me sleep on their floor in Portland until I secured an apartment of my own, which I successfully did three days later. The next few weeks consisted of weekdays at Parliament and weekend trips to Corvallis and back, moving my belongings from one apartment to another. Lots of boxes. Lots of gas tank fill-ups. Lots of sore limbs.
I met my first Portland neighbor by hitting his car with my U-Haul. He has a junky old car, and was really calm and cool about it. He actually fixed 90% of the damage himself, and only had to stop by a body shop to have them fix one of his turn signal lights (a quick $40 fix). It could’ve been worse. Much worse.
My new apartment is nice. It’s a small studio and has forced me to get creative in storage and organization solutions. After two trips to IKEA (so far) and so much help from Lindsay, it’s actually looking pretty good. It only took a month for it to look like someone actually lives here. I am looking forward to exploring my neighborhood more, but I will say one thing: having a Trader Joes only three blocks away is probably the greatest thing ever. EVER.
There’s so many changes that are happening all around me. I am so excited to see how everyone’s lives, including mine, are changing. I’m learning in a very real way that although things can seem really confusing and uncertain at times, they always work out in the end. God is faithful. Even when we aren’t.
