New chapter

I think I'm getting my groove back.  Actually, I know I am.  I can feel it.

It's a nice feeling.

Some big changes are in the works here in my world.  Plans have been formed on the fly and decisions made in moments.  And it feels good.  Feels right.

The biggest of those plans is the one where we pack up and leave this place where we currently live and go somewhere else.  A big decision at the best of times, packing up and moving, but one we have tossed around for a while and were planning at the end of the year anyway.  But we had an opportunity present itself Monday week ago that was too good to let slip through our fingers.  It didn't take much talking to decide to jump in with both feet!

And so we are.  Jumping without really looking.  No real safety net, no concrete plans, just an idea and a goal.  Irresponsible maybe?  But we are okay with it and willing to take our chances.  I mean, what is the worst that could happen?  We have to change our plans?  We have to come back?  Not ideal but if we had to, we could.

I never would would have thought that I would be okay with this sort of spontaneity, being as I am usually the one to have everything planned months in advance with plans made and written in triplicate, signed and filed well in advance.  And yet here I am, pushing for it, champing at the bit that it is taking so long and the end of next month is sooo far away!

Are we running away?  Or are we starting the next chapter?  Right now, I'm going with the new chapter.  We have spent too long waiting for things to change and they haven't.  So now we are making the change.  Forcing it.  Carving out our own new path.  And it feels good to be making decisions again.  Decisions that will bring about change from what we are doing now which is making us unhappy and miserable.

Lucky Phil always says that you can't expect a different result when you keep doing the same thing over and over again.  At last, we are following our own advice and doing something different.

Different is good.

Here's cheers to the next chapter!

Marching on....

So it's been a while.

Time has a tendency to disappear on me these days.  Half the time I don't know if I'm coming or going.  I mean, we're in March already, for Pete's sake! (who is Pete, btw?).

I've been feeling a little out-of-sorts lately.  Not right.  Not me.  

I don't know what my problem is, really.  I mean, this year is shaping up to be the best year in quite a few.  I should be so very happy for the promise of the future that is but just a few weeks (days?) away.  But for some reason I'm all teary and anxious. I can't see the forest for the trees.    I'm blinded by the past, fearful of the future.  You know, that sort of thing.

I'm hoping it's just a result of my usual knee-jerk reaction to change.  Flight I am.  No fight in me.  Uncontrollable on my part initially but eventually I reign it in.  But this one feels like something more.  Something deep down that hasn't been addressed......

My sleep is interrupted.  I'm having trouble being on my own longer than an hour or two.  I wish I would stop eating the world (good thing I haven't been shopping in a while and there is no crap on the shelves otherwise I would be inhaling it).  I keep crying.  I don't want to go to work.  

I don't know.  

I just wish I could stop the crying for no reason.  I don't have the disposition for it.

I see the doctor on Monday.

It's a hard life

Beautiful Bali.

Loving it 😄😄😄

Jetsetting

Out of office reply:
Thanks for stopping by but I'm not here at the moment. I've packed my bag and am about to board a jet plane.

Lucky Phil and I are off to beautiful Bali for a week, after having spent the weekend in Melbourne. I'm not far from turning my phone onto international roam which means ill turn my data access off too (at a million dollars er GB I think I'll pass!!) but thought one last post before I leave 😄

No cooking for me this week but my goal re my Cookbook Cookoff Challenge is to try some new meals instead of my usual nasi goreng ayam and gado gado! Expect a report when I get back...

See you all on the flip side!!!

Rainy day activities

So it's raining today. Has been for the last three days. At least we don't have the gale force winds of the other night. Truly, I thought we'd lose the tin on the roof that night, nailed on as it is.

Right now the rain is an intermittent sprinkle. Enough to make you think you should go out and do something productive but then rethink cos you'll get too wet.

I'm happy sitting on the front verandah, doing my cross-stitch and watching lucky Phil fertilize the hedge plants.

Grateful that I'm high and dry, I wish all the flood affected parts of Queensland a safe evening.

Agileh

Agileh = happy man

The road to a friend's house....

Our neighbour friends have moved out to their block of land an hour out of town and left us all alone.

Very sad we are because not only were they great neighbours, but they are great friends and truthfully, we don't have that many friends in this place.

We see them a couple of times a month now, when they drop around to their house to check that their son (who now lives there) hasn't burnt the place down and to mow the lawn.  Or when we get an afternoon free and we are able to take a drive out.

We do miss their company.  Genuine people with giving hearts.  Gems.  Rare to find these days.

I found this cross-stitch in one of my books and thought it would be a perfect gift for them....

 

It now has a new home on a wall in their house.

Fills my heart with joy that does.