Thursday, 14 June 2012

Appreciating where I live

I wonder if there are many stars in the Malaysian sky? One of the things I love about Cairns is the night sky, and tonight as I drove home the lights from distant galaxies sparkled from horizon to horizon. Could I be happy in a city where the stars hide behind the haze of light pollution and smog? And that's not the only thing I worry about- moving to another country is a scary, massive unknown. At the moment I vacillate between excitement and waves of pure panic.

On Sunday The Inventor is flying over there to "check things out". He will sort out a few of the bigger decisions, like which town to base ourselves in, where and how his work will happen, and what car to get. He'll be back on Friday, my last day of work in Australia and our 27th wedding anniversary. Then we have less than two weeks to finish all our packing and arrangements before we leave for Brisbane, and then Malaysia.

The arrangements are complicated, as they always are when we move house. Because our finances have been limited for some years, we haven't done a lot of maintenance, and now we need to get some of it done before we move. We have had a constant stream of plumbers, electricians, plasterers, renderers, carpenters and painters through the house, and while it gradually takes form, I try to pack bits and pieces from under the film of dust that coats everything. Yes, chaos as usual. I will survive this!

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