As of today, we've been back in Phoenix exactly one year.
I wish I could say my employment situation has improved since leaving Denver, but as we all know, it hasn't. I remain optimistic. It usually takes me two or three false starts each time I change cities to get situated somewhere that I like and that lasts for more than a few months, so we're coming due here pretty quick.
Other than the employment thing, life has been good over this past year. I love the house we're renting, I love the ease of getting around Phoenix, and though I learned over during the four years we lived in Colorado that I prefer being cold and dry to being hot and dry, I still love being back in warm weather.
And while photos like this…
…get me feeling a little nostalgic and make me realize how little of the state we actually saw during the time we lived there—all I have to do is think of the cost of living, driving in the snow, getting stuck while driving in the snow, working at DISH, and the appalling insanity of Denver drivers, and I'm cured of any nascent longing instantly.