It's a beautiful day in the neighbourhood, and as the weatherpeople are calling it, it may be the last for a bit.
Anyway, this weekend was a turning point in a few ways. It turned from April to May and this is the month that we leave for Australia! Which is awesome and terrifying at the same time. Right now, more terrifying. It kind of hit home just how much needs to be accomplished befre we take off for a bit.
- Move out of our apartment (including getting all our old stuff out of our parent's places, respectively)
- Pack (including buying R's travel clothes and accessories)
- Get travel insurance
- Search for and find an affordable palace in Waterloo to move into for September
- I need to write an article for the place I'm volunteering for
- Finish getting ready for the wedding
- Pay tuition/sort out how I'm going to select classes (select classes!) for September (I will have to do most of this on the road while in Oz
- Sort out an early birthday for my parents (including mothers day) all of which will pass while my parents are in Australia
More stuff but I can feel my shoulders knitting together, so I'm going to chill out! Aieee!
We've packed up a bunch of stuff, but it's hard to kow what to do next, because we don't want to be camping for the next three weeks, but really, we can't delay too long to pack up especially the bits and bobs we have lying around. Anyway, I suppose it will all come together, but it'll reqiure that we hang on to this feeling of doom to keep us motivated! Hi, doom!
I suggested that R leave work a week early so we could get to waterloo to house hunt and so we could both be moving at full tilt getting things taken care of. He was, shall we say, very receptive to this idea! Me too. To have two full weeks with both of us to take care of our responsibilities will be so much better than one. Ohhh man.
It's weid because I wander around the apartment looking for things to pack up, sort of obsessively. Do I pack up and get rid of my bedside table yet? Why bother, it'll be quick when the time comes , but then, AAAAAAARGH! Anyway. Soon it'll be time to just make the place liveable, not necesarily as convenient as we've known it. I keep saying I won't miss my little apartment (as it is a basement ina crappy house that is being overrun by loud new neighbours) but maybe I will. I'll miss Ottawa, and my friends here (aw, S&B!) and I'll miss the Asian
food markets. With your big delicious bags of beans.
New chapters in life are great slash suck. Stupid transitions, giving me character and life experience! Anyway, I'm kind of excited to see where we end up living and how school is and how this luthier thing plays out for r. Heh, plays out. He's talking about doing a ukulele apprenticeship in Hawai'i, which I, for one, totally support.
Happy Hawai'i dreams everybody
3 comments:
i read your post and could picture you (if this was at all possible) running around your little apartment while typing it. wow, you're buzzing about everything. i can imagine. i'm excited for you for australia and waterloo and everything.
did you ever meet my friend dan? he did his undergrad at waterloo. i can hook you up with his email address if you want. also, vanessa (link on my blog) is currently at waterloo. she can probably answer lots of questions.
Yeah, I'm buzzing to the max! Plese YES about the e-mails, I'd love to ask some questions about town and I'd really appreciate the hook-up since we don't actually know anyone who is going to be there.
It;s go time for sure, and it will be till I leave, so everything is done wth glee but also a little tinge of panic. Thanks for your support though, I definitely appreciate it.
Every time I move or do something/go somewhere I have thoughts like why am I doing this to myself? I'm leaving everything I know, and it's so comfortable and safe etc...but then I get to wherever I'm going and invariably I always have a little epiphany of 'oh, THAT'S why".
Next time I'll have to move somewhere really exciting to ensure lots of visits ;-)
xoxo
man, everyone is busy busy busy this week/month.
Except me!
Hooray!
Good luck with paring down your to-do list
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