The Move is on....

Moving away from Dubai is a sad, but also exciting time. Sad as I leave behind wonderful friends and colleagues. Sad because I am leaving a place with the most wonderful buildings and new things that are about to happen. Sad because I leave behind a part of myself. I did not like Dubai that much, it was to be honest a temporary place. But a place can grow on you, and it did. The people I got to know made the place.

It is also an exciting time as we are moving on with our lives. We are going to something different, but not that foreign. We are going back to our roots.

The move it self was so very stressful. It was a 2 day occation. We opted for a 20ft container. We decided that some things do not have to go and then I started my stressing as I thought that everything will not fit into that "small" container. I stressed, I bit my nails, I prayed, I wanted to cry, but did not. Luckily I stressed for nothing as is normally the case ;-)

The packers were very fast and efficient. Too fast sometimes, and at times, when they seemed to slow down too much, I wanted them to go into fastforward mode. They just packed and packed. On the second day it seemed to slow down considerably. With nothing to sit on, no TV to watch, no decent utencils, it started to get to me and I could see also to David and Dante. Luckily they had their PSP's to play with. And we could also sit in the garden and WAIT WAIT WAIT. At 18h30 they were finished and the container was sealed. What a day! What a stress! What a relief!

Now if you have moved a few times, you would know what normally happens next..... you do not? Let me tell you. You would find things that were supposed to be packed and were not, and you would find things packed that were not supposed to be in the container. Now you stress again. Wow. What a time we had stressing on top of stressing. Then you get to the point that you know it does not help to stress anymore and you stop stressing....... just to get to the next point......

You realise that the car and the motorbike needs to be sold and fast too. You pull out our reserve stress energy and you stress some more. Luckily Gideon has that sorted out. I leave those stresses now for him. I do not have any stresses left to stress about even if I wanted to.

Next time I write on my blog again, I will tell you about the move or its end rather. For now, I will just say: Carpe Diem!!!!! Seize the Day!!!!!!