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I haven’t made a post in a long while, so I figured it would be good to just dump some information here.

My life has been a little hectic lately, the most significant part being a split from my girlfriend of 5 years. I’ve had a pretty rough time with it, and it has been further complicated by the fact that she still lives in my house. I’m not going to go into any of the details, but it has been hard and isn’t getting any easier.

This really opened up the opportunity to move back to Utah. My family has always wanted me to move back, but my girlfriend was steadfastly against it, so it was never an option. With that restraint removed, I started seriously considering it.

Recently, our family business took a heavy blow when my sister betrayed the company; stole employees, files, and equipment; and went to work for a competitor. My other sister did essentially the same thing a few years ago, and now they both work for the same company which is somehow related to my (our) biological father. It is a horrible horrible mess and has hit my mother understandably hard. Additionally, her dog just died, so my presence in Salt Lake would be a much needed good to help outweigh the bad.

On a different front, my grandmother has apparently been declining since my grandfather died. She hasn’t been taking good enough care of herself or her place so, as the plan has always been, she moved out to California to live with my aunt who is a nurse and can take care of her. My parents own her place, but with the market the way it is, the house is upside down and they cannot sell it. By moving in there and paying some meager rent, I can help my family out financially while still saving some money myself.

With my ex-girlfriend moving out, I’m down to just one roommate and I really can’t afford my house anymore. I can’t sell it (that damn market again), but by using a property management company I can rent my house out reliably from Utah. With the rent a tenant would bring in, it’s cheaper for me to pay rent in Utah than to stay in my house in Texas.

So, all these things came together about the same time, and I’m taking the leap and actually moving. It will be crazy, it will be a little wild, but I expect it to be fun too. I’ve been getting the house ready and scoping out folf courses in salt lake (there is a crappy looking one 2 miles from the new house!). The moving truck is coming on Dec 1, and we will be following shortly there after. Crazy!