We Did IT

We did it! We have a new place to live!

It's been a pretty huge little while and now, all the stress with relocation (save the act itself) is finally over and done with.

In something that I've always been envious of, J's incredible ability to interview flawlessly carried her from the start of a job hunt to an incredible renewable energy job in the heart of Calgary in the span of 10 days.

Left hanging with my mouth open in envy, we entered into negotiations to retire Bachelor C. 

5 days later, in something of a fluke, but masterfully executed "refresh" of craigslist at 11:30pm, the perfect house listing showed up. We scrambled, J and Myself to e-mail the landlord.

By 4pm the next day we had a beautiful condo in one of the most coveted places in Calgary to live. Our e-mail of request was sent a mere 3 minutes after the posting had first appeared to the viscous housing market that is C-town.

The stress of doing all of this ground work has suddenly been replaced with an unbelievable sense of awe and shock. Everything actually came together. All of my contingency planning and worrying about "what if" this or that didn't shape up is suddenly gone.

I actually feel like a tremendous weight has been lifted from my shoulders.

Now to actually move.

:D

I've been home one day and I'm beginning to feel as if I'm working at the CF call center. 

Every call I take is from my "relocation experts" or my moving company at my destination, or their local affiliate, or the concerige at my apartment, or the furniture store, or the real estate agents, or....

you get the idea.

I made a couple of calls when I returned, and perhaps erroneously mentioned that I was ready to start planning moving. Now suddenly there is a surge of momentum pushing and pulling, vying for spots on my calendar. I'm moving on this date, getting inspected here, packing on this date...

I'm not even in the same province as all this stuff anymore. Now I'm booking plane tickets and aiding the search for a landing zone in calgary.

Christ... the change of pace from vacation is certainly unwelcome.

At least it is happening here at home. :)

Vacation is over!

It's sad but it's true. Summer is here and I'm not really in the shape I'd want to be in, however I'm a graduate.  Today was my first full day home and luckily (and strangely) it was absolutely gorgeous. So I figured why not go for a run.

I just signed up for the legendary Tely 10 road race. This is my first time and with that thought fresh in my mind (that I wanted to avoid complete and utter embarrassment) I pushed myself today on a run.

You can imagine my shock and dismay when I got home and googled it up. 4.5 miles.

Not bad for a first time. now the time, 45 minutes wasn't anything to brag about, but the fact that I outran my dogs the entire was was something to feel good about.

Time to go stretch... the stiffness is already setting in.