Hey Chase,
It was great talking to you! As I mentioned it was a busy week for me but I somewhat thrive off of busy. I tend to do better with busy than when I dont have very much to do. I also get the sense of feeling accomplished when I am busy. The weekend has been pretty relaxing. I have done nothing other than going to the Mall of America yesterday. That was so much fun! I love hanging out with Kyle. Here is a fun picture of us —> 
The week has been a hard one mostly because last Saturday I found out from my friend Mike ( he was my surprise call for the last challenge) that Brian has quit his job and was moving to Madison today to live with Tyler. That upset me quite a bit. The mature side of me is happy for Brian and Tyler and I KNOW this will be a good thing for Brian. He has not been in a very good place for a while now. We broke up mostly because he was too depressed to care about anything in his life and he really needed to get his life back under control. So part of me is proud of him for finally acknowledging that he is not okay and doing something about it. He is in a pretty desperate place to quit his job when he does not have a new one and move in to Tyler’s studio apartment. I keep wondering what is going to happen to his cat and all of the pictures of me and letters I had sent him. I doubt they will make the move.
The selfish side of me is pretty mad and sad about the whole thing. I feel like I got really shafted! It hurts me to think I was the one who got hurt in the break up and now he gets to be the one to move in with our friends in Madison. He is getting everything he wanted and I get left behind alone. It just sucks. And I moved to Minnesota with the clear understanding that he was going to move here with me, that I was not going to be alone. I feel like I pulled the short end of the stick in the entire situation. The past year and a half has been a really hard one. Things were hard a home with Madeline, job searching sucked, moving to somewhere new was really hard, learning a new job was challenging I have been really lonely, and things went downhill with Brian. I know God gives me the good with the bad but I am feeling really tired. Life has not turned out to be what I had hoped it would look like. I know God has good things in store for me, I just need to trust Him and stay patient.
I had been praying about what the next step in my life will look like. Do I stay in MN or do I move closer to a support system? Do I stay in my apartment or do I look for a roommate? Brian moving to Madison has pretty much taken Madison off the table for me (at least for the next year). I could not be that close to him until I am ready to be his friend and at this point I do not want to be his friend, I want to be more than his friend. I also like my job at Dodge and would not leave it unless I had a different/better offer. The more I have think about it lately I am feeling pretty pulled to put in another year in MN at Dodge. I am currently working on reformatting the Newsletter and I would like to see that through. I also want to be a part of having our annual gala on the Dodge property, which has not been done in years. It is a pretty big endeavor we are taking on.
Along with doing yoga I started a Holiday Squat-A-Thon this past week. A woman at work gave it to me. I am up to 60 squats today. It hurts!! Haha you can see from the picture i am not very good at yoga haha. 
I hope the rest of your night went well!
Love you!
Alex
PS: Virabhadrasana (veer-ah-bah-DRAHS-anna) is the Sanskrit name for Warrior Pose, which is what I am attempting in the picture to the right.
