Mama Always Said Life is Like a Box of Chocolates...

I have learned how true this phrase is over the past few weeks. Let me paint a picture...we are moving to NYC, we have a lovely furnished studio apartment all ready for us in Greenwich Village, and I am stressfully looking for jobs to pay for NYC rent, but ecstatic for the opportunity to really truly live in NYC for a whole year and see all the Broadway plays I could ever dream of...enter in box of chocolates.

Basically, I was biting into some super exotic but oh so good imported chocolate with a fabulously silky and chocolatey center. I am just thinking this is to die for (unless I am Emily and don't like chocolate- what girl doesn't love chocolate?) when all of the sudden the exotic chocolate becomes a plain hershey's milk chocolate square....enter in Provo, UT firm.

A little over three weeks ago (and completely out of the blue), a firm in Provo, UT contacts Derek to see if he would be interested in a job. Derek had been discussing job options with this firm way back in December and by March they told us to make other options for ourselves and that they just didn't have any job opportunities available at the time. They knew that we then intended to go to NYU, and they wished us luck. End of story.

So, when they called us just a few weeks ago after we finally knew for sure where we were going next year, I had a little temper tantrum and told Derek to call them right back and tell them that a hershey's square is no comparison to my imported chocolate. No deal! Then, I repented, took it back, and decided we should at least hear their offer, as I was sure it would probably be so low that we couldn't make our loan payments, and I could easily again settle into devouring my rare and excitingly delicious chocolate. However, they ending up making a pretty good offer, much better than we expected and now hershey's chocolate was somehow becoming a temptation. How can that be possible?

Let me explain, basically this job somehow turns out to be Derek's dream job. He would be doing tax, estate planning, business planning and other business transactions. While Derek will still have to work hard, they are offering a great lifestyle. Another bonus is that he may "have to" occasionally take clients golfing and to lunch during the work day. (The two things Derek loves most: food and sports). The firm also has a basketball team and are working on a softball team. It's about a 5-6 year partner track. And, he likes all the people that work there.

It soon became obvious to me that I had eaten all the imported chocolate in this box, and it was time to move onto this new chocolate that my husband had discovered which I could possibly learn to love as well. How couldn't I love a job that gets my husband home for dinner most nights and on the weekends when I was thinking he was going to be working 60 hours/week before? Furthermore, how could I deny my husband the job of his dreams simply because Provo, UT wasn't my dream location?

Today, we officially and gladly accepted comfortable, trusty and true hershey's chocolate and will be moving out to UT after my graduation August 16th. We still plan to go to NYC. However, now it will only be for one week instead of a whole year. And, it will be more of a graduation/one last chance to have fun before settling into the real world with obligations trip. I guess I will just have to spend that week scarfing down the exotically delicious chocolate to the point that I am so sick of it that I am willing to settle for hershey's milk chocolate squares from here on out.

Also noteworthy, my paper is currently 36 pages with tables and everything. My professor wrote me saying that is a wonderful paper. All I have left is to format it into the required format. Now, I think that is deserving of a whole box of chocolates (don't you)!!!