// Hello Seattle//

Wow. I can’t believe I’m here. For those of you that aren’t aware, I have recently (literally 2 days ago) moved to Seattle, WA from Colorado Springs, CO. This is my first time ever living outside of my parents’ house as well as the first time living outside of the city I was born in. 

I live in a two bedroom apartment with my brother, Lindsey (yes, he is a dude), his wife, Elizabeth, and my nephew, Kaze (pronounced Kahzay), who is a year and a half old. We live on the 16th floor of an apartment building in Belltown. Yeah, cool right!

Now that we’re all up to speed…

The past two days have been a total blur. My brain and body still have yet to recover from the trip and I still have yet to properly “move in”. I’m really crossing my fingers for a decent job out here. Minimum wage is $9, I believe, so that will be saweeeeet… if I can find a job. Money is really one of my only worries right now. But hey… hakunna matata, man. 

My room… haha. Right now it is graced with the presence of a mountain of trash bags. A few weeks ago, my new family had a bed bug scare and a ton of their stuff is in quarantine… aka, my room. Don’t worry, I won’t get dems bugs. They’re all DEAD. 

I sleep on a mattress on the floor, and at the moment the heat does not work in my room… BUT!!! I am so stoked to be here. I am incredibly grateful for this awesome place I get to stay. Hell, at least I’m not literally sleeping on the floor. Having my own room is the best thing and the bags will be out soon enough and I will absotively make this room my own! Yessir. 

Lindsey and Elizabeth are just super great people to live with, not to mention be related to. The three of us get along like old friends. Also. I have the cutest nephew- to cherry top that ice cream sunday. 

I’m totally happy and excited to be here. But I did leave someone very special to me back in Colorado. His name is Daniel Evan Garza. Mostly Dan or Deegs or Garz(a). 

Dan, as one of my closest and oldest friends so eloquently puts it, is the boy version of me. Which is something I mostly agree with, just… Dan is the boy version of a BETTER me. So, a large portion of my heart and soul are exactly 1336 miles away from my body right now, not to mention that he’s also my best friend. Anyways, that’s hard. We’ve both decided that God will take care of us much better than we ever could, so we’re just leaving it up to his discretion. Good idea? I think so!

So yeah, missing Dan and hoping to find a good job to make enough money are the only two ucky things about being here (so far… knock on wood). I absolutely CAN’T wait for what this year has yet to present me with. I’m sure there will be all kinds of adventures, hardships, joys, let downs, and triumphs. Oh, and growth. SO MUCH GROWTH PLEASE. 

I guess that is all for now. It’s 2:48AM Seattle time- 3:48AM body time, and the fact that I’m listening to the incredible composer and musician, Max Richter, is not helping in the least. Time to call it. 

S.