So, I'm back in Atlanta, temporarily living with my mom and step-dad again until I find a job. I've been here a week now, during which I found and applied to what felt like a billion and one jobs, mostly in California because I really really want to be back on the West Coast, at the very least. Yesterday, I was feeling really bored and just wanted to make something with my hands. I get that urge every now and then, unfortunately, generally when I'm broke and don't have any supplies just laying around. I went digging around in my mom's craft supplies and happened upon a box with some old letters in it. Some of those letters were from my dad.
My parents met their junior year of college and started dating pretty soon afterwards, I think. My dad graduated a bit before my mom did and left Illinois for a job in California knowing that she would soon follow him out there. Apparently, he wrote her a few letters. The ones I saw were all from 1982, about five years before I was born, so that must have been a little before they got married. They would've been married almost 30 years now, if they hadn't got divorced. That's just mind-boggling to me. Sometimes I wonder what it would have been like if they hadn't.
Mom is trying to convince me to live out here for a while. To look for jobs near Atlanta. I have to say, the idea, in itself, makes a lot of sense. It is significantly cheaper to live over here. With a decently paying job, I could probably own a condo in about three years, comfortably. And that's a nice thought. But I've already been away for too long in my book and at the moment I'm too broke to buy a ticket back to California.
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