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| Monday, December 31, 2007 |
| Cold Feet |
According to my countdown timer on Facebook, it is just under 8 days until we leave the country... we leave Adelaide on Thursday, however, so we have now officially reached the mad-rush stage. Qantas lets us have 32 kg on domestic flights, and we are flying Qantas to Darwin. From Darwin to London we take Royal Brunei, who have a limit of 20kg of checked baggage per passenger. Mr Ata is out installing surround-sound at his parent's house, and Ata is (supposedly) doing a practice-pack. So far, it looks as though we will be fine to Darwin but may need to do a little reshuffling & leaving-behind of things before departing Darwin. And there are three cupboards that still have a litter of unresolved items on the shelves, and the weather is filthy-hot, and Ata is suddenly struck by that clenching sense of fear that can find no cause to attach itself to... this is the cold feet stage of making a major life change. The point when the thought that the way things were was just EASY slams you across the back of the skull, the realisation that this is HARD follows it up, and the confronting knowledge that the future is UNCERTAIN is close behind for the hat-trick of head injury.
I was going to post some pictures of things I was throwing out, and also of my birthday cupcakes which turned out satisfactorily (and very unnecessarily) pretty. I decorated them with icing butterflies that I made All By Myself - well, okay, I bought the ready-to-roll flower paste icing and the mould to shape them, but I moulded & painted them myself. It was ridiculously unnecessarily and insanely time-consuming. Exactly the sort of project I like to take on when I should be busy doing other things.
Mr Ata has just called to say the install is not going well and he will be there a while longer. We still haven't gotten rid of an external monitor & keyboard that we are using with the laptop. The laptop & external hard drives that Mr Ata wants to take will probably eat up most of our carry-on baggage allowance, leaving just enough space for my current Perfect Pillow (that I refuse to leave behind) and a couple of books. I have no TV to watch to distract myself from the creeping fingers of loss that I had thought would wait another day or two before they began to tickle my spine. Ah well. All things pass in time. |
posted by Ata @ 6:52 pm  |
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Yes, it will pass. Take deep breaths. Good luck!
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Yes, it will pass. Take deep breaths. Good luck!