and so a new phase begins

[pnoopiepnats]

My job ended Friday and I went home and sobbed for awhile.

It is an odd feeling spending every day with a group of people and I know I will never see them again.

Yesterday I started to get things in order to leave. I did some of my work paper work and started washing everything. I don't think I can do without Tide detergent. I have to bring some with me.

It is strange to think one day my life is this way and the next it is something else. I'm quite nervous.

[phoenixferret]

Exciiiiiiiiiting! When do you leave?

[Sweet Pea]

pnoopiepnats said:

My job ended Friday and I went home and sobbed for awhile.

It is an odd feeling spending every day with a group of people and I know I will never see them again.

Yesterday I started to get things in order to leave. I did some of my work paper work and started washing everything. I don't think I can do without Tide detergent. I have to bring some with me.

It is strange to think one day my life is this way and the next it is something else. I'm quite nervous.

you'll be okay. you were nervous when you took this job, i remember.

[pnoopiepnats]

At least I know my boobs won't explode. ;D

I've made a list of things I want to do and change.

[Sweet Pea]

pnoopiepnats said:

At least I know my boobs won't explode. ;D

I've made a list of things I want to do and change.

uh oh...

[pnoopiepnats]

I feel like writing for some reason.

I have been here for nearly 2 months now and I find the adjustment to a new country harder than I expected but easier in some ways.

I worked like crazy when I first got here and landed a great job; a supervisor role. I haven't started working yet and find I am bored but at the same time nervous about starting a new job with new people in a different culture. In my job, I'll probably get to travel some which might be nice.

As I posted before, I got my dream house I thought about for years and am moving in next week. I am quite nervous about it and hope I can handle it. I guess I am feeling overwhelmed. My gardener called the other day asking me questions about the property which I couldn't answer. He said he would come over after I move in and discuss things. It feels weird having a gardener. That's for fancy folks.

I'm trying to decide on a car and talked to the bank about a loan the other day. I think I'm going to go for the "treat" car instead of the sensible one.

I don't know. I think I am depressed. I'm renting a car soon and am going to try to get out to the park. I'm afraid of getting lost and I haven't driven a car in 2 months either. I got my shiny new aus driver's license and haven't even used it yet.

[Sweet Pea]

yes, get out of the house pnats. have some fun!

[Stranger]

Well, I think you'll do great. You've been through a very eventful few months and are at the start of a new phase of your life--it's gotta be normal to feel a little overwhelmed and uncertain, lol. I'm wondering if things might start to settle down once you start work and get a bit of a routine going. Less time to sit around letting the worries sink in and all.

Sounds like you're really cruising with the move, the job, the house, ... I take it there's still a guy in there somewhere too. ;D

sweetpea said:

yes, get out of the house pnats. have some fun!

It's so easy to say that from the comfort of one's own computer chair, huh? ;D

[Sweet Pea]

stranger said:

Well, I think you'll do great. You've been through a very eventful few months and are at the start of a new phase of your life--it's gotta be normal to feel a little overwhelmed and uncertain, lol. I'm wondering if things might start to settle down once you start work and get a bit of a routine going. Less time to sit around letting the worries sink in and all.

Sounds like you're really cruising with the move, the job, the house, ... I take it there's still a guy in there somewhere too. ;D

sweetpea said:

yes, get out of the house pnats. have some fun!

It's so easy to say that from the comfort of one's own computer chair, huh? ;D

hey...i walk the talk, buddy. i don't spend all my time in this computer chair ya know.

besides, i have fun in the computer chair on occasion too.

haha...okay...i just realized that sounded weird. ;D

[Stranger]

sweetpea said:

hey...i walk the talk, buddy. i don't spend all my time in this computer chair ya know.

Haha, I meant more that I might be a little more tempted to echo your words if it wouldn't make me such a hypocrite. Although I expect it'd also be harder to "get out of the house" in a country you're still rather new to.

sweetpea said:

besides, i have fun in the computer chair on occasion too.

haha...okay...i just realized that sounded weird. ;D

That didn't sound weird; it sounded perfectly normally dirty... ;D

[audioalone]

Congrats to you, Ms. Pnats (Mamma)! Looks like things are lookin' up for you!

[pnoopiepnats]

Thanks all! I am feeling a little better today. Plant therapy seems to help. ;D ;D




Here are the ones I bought. I put them outside my bedroom window so I could see them when I wake up in the morning.

[Sweet Pea]

pnoopiepnats said:

Thanks all! I am feeling a little better today. Plant therapy seems to help. ;D ;D




Here are the ones I bought. I put them outside my bedroom window so I could see them when I wake up in the morning.

lovely flowers, pnats.

[pnoopiepnats]

For somet reason these photos seem kind of boring. Oh well. First is a photo of the kitchen in the new house.


2nd is this espalier. I have no idea what it is. It sort of looks like a Camilla.



3rd is my newly planted front rose garden. I put 5 in here and 1 big one in the back. I got up the next day to put my trash out and there was a large mangled bird. Yuck. I should've taken a pic of that.

[pnoopiepnats]

Great news! Tony the Tiger grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat news!

My visa was just approved!

Now time to be nervous and obsess about my job! EEK!