Things seem to be coming together with the move to Chicago. I have talked to my parents, Jeannette has talked to her parents, we have (for the most part) withdrawn ourselves from the University of Utah, I’m almost done with my applications to the Illinois colleges and I have gotten a job. Everything is falling into place. Things are turning around for me and I’m fixing the problems that once seemed hopeless. I feel good with the solutions so far and so excited about the uncertainty of the future. I sit back look around at my reconstructed life and think wow; things are really getting better when life throws another problem in my face.

Now that I have fixed my problem here, and am moving and solved numerous personal problems...I am faced with financial problems (as if I never was before) but now its more clear because the other problems are out of the way. I see this one and can focus on it because it is happening now. This kind of thing used to make me go 4 shades of red. But I have realized that in life you cant escape problems. They are always going to be there so a person might as well fix them when they come around instead of getting all worked up about them. I’m taking what I used to see as a weight on my shoulders and changing it into an adventure. I know that it wont always be like this, and most likely I will come to problems in my life that I can stair down like this, but I know that each time I fix something in my life I grow a little bit stronger inside myself. I'll be ready for anything.