"Summer Lovin'...

...had me a blast!"

I can't help but scream this little hit number from the movie Grease at the top of my lungs (and secretly do all the moves ...because I happen to know them). Not only did I have a ton of fun this past summer but as the song says, "...it happened so fast". It's amazing to me how much time can pass when you're doing things you love with the people you love. I spent the early part of my summer driving cross country from Arizona to Texas to move in with Andrew (a first for the both of us). Once settled, I drove all over central Texas with the boyfriend's family learning about Texas history and exploring little tourist towns called Fredricksburg and Luckenbach as well as landmarks such as the capital building of Texas and the infamous Alamo. I also had the opportunity to fly into my old stomping grounds in New York to visit with family I hadn't seen in a decade. And I seem to finally be ending my summer by landing the "dream job" that coincidentally took me all summer to find.

But with all the fun I had in the sun, this was surely one of the most stressful summers I have ever experienced. I left a great job and great friends back in Arizona. I spent all summer searching for work and flooding the Austin market with my resume only to come up empty handed. I interviewed more times than my fingers can count. I was financially strapped for months. I was living with a boy (aka significant other) for the first time in my life. I had no friends, except for those of my boyfriends. And most importantly, I missed not one, but two of my best friends' weddings back in New York. As hard as this summer was, THANK the big G-O-D for Andrew and the support I received from my family and friends. Every time I was getting down, someone was always there to remind me, "things will happen when the time is right and to just have fun in the mean time." If it weren't for all of them, I might have lost it in the sea of rejection and anxiety I was facing.

But on the bright side, I finally begin my new job tomorrow at High Beam Events. For the first time in my career, I get to create and plan my own events and all for the official parties that surround the nine day South by Southwest Festival that begins in mid March. I'm really looking forward to what's to come and in the mean time, I am truly enjoying my new Austin town.

In some ways I do feel like Sandy from Grease. In the end, she got everything she wanted.