As Microsoft HR has informed me, I'm coming up on my one-year anniversary with the company, which is completely wild. Diana and I were talking this evening, looking around and thinking, "Holy crap, this is our life." If you told me three and a half years ago when we met that I'd live in Washington, working for the biggest software company in the world, married, with a little boy, I'd say you were full of shit. But here I am.
The interesting thing about all of that change is that it's far enough in the past now that it's mostly happy memories. I'm fairly used to my life now, though that also makes me more aware of the things that I feel are suboptimal or not moving at the pace I'd like (a post for another day). You know that you've achieved a new normal when you start to wonder what may disrupt it.
The funny thing about those first weeks after moving is that we never had a chance to catch our breath. We had the five days of driving, a weekend of apartment hunting, a week and a half at work, then Thanksgiving, then a week at Walt Disney World. I remember for Diana's birthday in January, we were out doing touristy stuff, almost two months after moving, and it still felt like we just got here.
Time sure flies...
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