Welcome.

Well, once upon a time there was a girl named Kallie. She was a girl with big dreams and huge ambitions. She believed that hard work and a life plan would keep her on the right track. Then, life happened.

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These past two years have been huge for me. Twenty-four months ago, I graduated from college with a degree in public relations and an acceptance letter to Texas Tech University. My plan was to complete my MBA in the following two years and then use the vast business knowledge that I knew I would acquire to open my own event planning business and venue.

Now, I'm from Indiana. I was born, raised, and even went to college in a small Hoosier city. My move to Texas was going to be life changing to say the least. After graduation, I had three months to earn money, party down, say my goodbyes, and get ready for the 1,700 mile move. In addition, I got engaged over the summer to my boyfriend who would stay in Indiana while I moved to Lubbock.

So, in the last 21 months, I moved to Texas for a year, moved back and finished graduate school, planned and celebrated my wedding to Alex, and started looking for the dream job that would pay me more than opening my own business.

I finally found a job working for a small start up company. I've only been working for a week, and the commute, which is about and hour and half each way, is already getting old. Alex and I decided to buy a house closer to my job and his grad school.

We started the house hunt about two months ago. With out tiny budget, however, we haven't found any major winners yet. Our apartment lease ended yesterday and for the mean time, we are living with my parents in their old farm house.

While there is plenty of room, and my parents are very supportive, I never thought that at the ripe old age of 24, I would be back in my parents house, and never did I imagine that I would be living there with my husband.

So I'm hoping to use this blog as a way to document the challenges we face as we take our first steps into the real world, whatever that really means.