We are mere days away from setting off.
I am sitting on the floor. My lap top is on the floor. All that is left is the TV, kettle and toaster. Oh and our materess... that is on the floor. The fish is in tupperware on the bench. I dont think he is impressed. It is amazing how much we can actually live without. It is also truely amazing how much we can squeeze into a van and a trailer. My husband is officailly the Worlds Best Packer. You would be hard pressed fitting as much stuff into the tardis. Doctor Who eat your heart out.
I have taken to drinking. Well, OK, OK, I have always liked a drink. I have increased the regularity of my drinking. It makes a lot of things easier. Like parting with stuff you love but never use or look at. It helps with cleaning walls and other menial tasks that just need to be done before departure. Well, lets face it, drinking helps with almost everything, except rollerskating backwards, in the dark, on gravel. This I dont recommend. Dont ask...
Little Miss is with the program now. I tell her we are sending everything to our new house. So now when anything dissapears she says it is at the new house. Hopefully she is not keeping a catalogue or she will be sorely dissapointed. A very low tide in the toy department.
So only a few sleeps. I am getting butterflies on a permanent basis. More like elephants doing a rendition of Swan Lake in my belly, but, hey...
We are taking a bite out of life... stand by to see if we can chew it.
Saturday, 10 March 2012
Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Getting closer
Things are picking up pace now.
It has been coming for so long now, but has been too far away to actually DO something. Now it is just close enough to put things away, give things away and pack them up. It is almost a relief to actually start doing something in the name of leaving.
We are starting to put things into the trailer. Finally I am getting an idea of the reality of space we actually have.
Little Miss keeps asking where HER table is and Her couch etc. She doesnt trust us at the moment. Every time we leave the house she is taking an unprecidented amount of stuff with her. Teddies, pillows, blankets, books, you know, all the important stuff.
We have been talking about the new house and what it will be like.
Although it is all specualtion. We have never been there.
It seems weird to be pulling up stumps and moving to a place we havent even seen before. Do people do that these days?
There is so much stuff we can leave behind. I think I will adopt the minimalist attitude when we get up there. Or perhaps now would be a more appropriate time.
I have learnt a bit about myself with this transition.
In the "absolutely must keep" pile, 3/4s of it is made up of books. The other 1/4 is trinkets and shiney stuff, mostly covered in glitter. Hmmm throw shiney thing at snake? Save glittery thing from cyclone? Well I dont care really. I will totter on my heals, saving cheep shiny s#!t in any emergency. Just watch me.
Oh well. 10 days to go. Not that I am counting. All right I am! Bring it ON!!!
It has been coming for so long now, but has been too far away to actually DO something. Now it is just close enough to put things away, give things away and pack them up. It is almost a relief to actually start doing something in the name of leaving.
We are starting to put things into the trailer. Finally I am getting an idea of the reality of space we actually have.
Little Miss keeps asking where HER table is and Her couch etc. She doesnt trust us at the moment. Every time we leave the house she is taking an unprecidented amount of stuff with her. Teddies, pillows, blankets, books, you know, all the important stuff.
We have been talking about the new house and what it will be like.
Although it is all specualtion. We have never been there.
It seems weird to be pulling up stumps and moving to a place we havent even seen before. Do people do that these days?
There is so much stuff we can leave behind. I think I will adopt the minimalist attitude when we get up there. Or perhaps now would be a more appropriate time.
I have learnt a bit about myself with this transition.
In the "absolutely must keep" pile, 3/4s of it is made up of books. The other 1/4 is trinkets and shiney stuff, mostly covered in glitter. Hmmm throw shiney thing at snake? Save glittery thing from cyclone? Well I dont care really. I will totter on my heals, saving cheep shiny s#!t in any emergency. Just watch me.
Oh well. 10 days to go. Not that I am counting. All right I am! Bring it ON!!!
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