It's not surprising that one of my first new posts would be about the one thing I can't stop thinking, dreaming, and talking about. That would be our upcoming move. My husband was laid off in October and after several months about talking about changing something we finally decided that we were going to through caution to the wind and move. We are moving from Calgary Alberta to Fredericton New Brunswick.
Most people think that this is not the best idea in the world. I mean, we are leaving the freakin' land of milk and honey for the poor ass, backwards, KFC free province of NB!! Who does that? Well, my best friend did that. She and her husband packed up their worldly possessions and drove east. She had never been there but her husband spent some time growing up there so they thought why not?! And so far so good. She's so happy, he's working in his is field (which happens to be the same field that my husband works in) and she has nothing but good things to say about it. So, I couldn't help but think "the land of milk and honey my butt!!" My husband lost his job, I'm working my tail off in such a fast paced world and living in THE most expensive city in the country! The only thing that I'll miss about this city is my mom and my friends. I'm very close to my mom (some would say too close) and I've never been far from her at all. Leaving her scares the crap out of me. Not because I can't be away from her, but because I'm worried about her feeling lonely. She tells everyone that I'm all she has. However, that too has recently changed. She has started seeing a very nice man who seems to like her very much. I must admit that this makes the decision to leave much easier. It's like she has someone in her life now and I'm free to go. I know that she doesn't want me to go but only for selfish reasons. She will miss me a lot, however the other side of the coin is that she wants us to go. She wants us to have the adventure of moving to a different place. To take a leap of faith and try. She did it. She left her family in Montreal and moved to Calgary, a place she had never been with my dad and also had a baby to deal with.
I guess that's why this feels so right. It's the right time. We don't have kids, we don't have jobs that can't be replaced and we really have nothing to loose. And so we will go. We will take that blind leap of faith and see what happens. Either way, we will be fine. And if not I know who to blame....tee hee!
I kid, I kid!
