Chapter 3
When Annabelle and I set up house together I knew, in part, it was because I wanted to entirely change my life. I had worked really hard through college, waiting tables when I wasn’t studying, and I had worked equally hard for the year since graduating. Now was a perfect time for a change. My job, an accountant for a large advertising firm, was really challenging and going well, but the rest of my life had been badly neglected. Sure, now I had Annabelle, but socially, physically, emotionally and spiritually, I was a bit of a wreck, so at 24 with my foot firmly planted on the bottom rung of what I expected to be a very tall corporate ladder, I was due for a bit of a make-over, and with my A-type personality, I knew I would work hard to make it happen.
But, that said, by far the
