Oh. My. Gawd

Oh. My. Gawd.

They say that some of the most stressful events in a person's life include moving house, bereavement, losing your job, planning a wedding and a few other things. In the last two months, we have moved continents, said goodbye to everything and everyone we love (and feel like we're suffering from bereavement), quit our jobs and planned a farewell party that had almost the same amount of guests as our wedding. When I tell you that we are physically and emotionally drained, I am not exaggerating. Which I'm very prone to doing, so I wouldn't blame you if you didn't believe me ;-)

The move has been the biggest, most scary, most stressful, most emotional event we've ever experienced in our lives, and nothing... nothing at all... (not even the years of extensive research I did) could prepare us for it.

And yet here we are. In Toronto. 5 sleeps after arriving. Still functioning after a 25 hour commute, going through immigration, signing up for bank accounts, SIN numbers, insurance, moving into a new apartment, buying over 400kgs of furniture at IKEA, putting all this furniture together ourselves, shopping and trying to equip a home without a car to carry groceries and supplies in, navigating our way via public transport around a strange city, etc.

And all I can say is... What the fuck were we thinking?

What the hell kind of drugs were we on that we thought this was a good idea? Holy shit. I would consider Poodle and myself to be above average intelligence, though I'm sure a few of you farkers would disagree. So all I can think is that we had a brain fart one year or that we've been suffering from temporary insanity. Poodle has always been a bit odd, so I'm leaning toward that explanation.

Why else would we take our wonderful, ordered, predictable, stable lives and turn them arse over kettle?

Probably because despite our exhaustion and bewilderment, and the fact that we're missing everyone terribly, we've never felt quite so alive. So tuned into the universe. So absolutely thrilled to wake up in the morning and wonder: What adventure and novelty and education can we expect from today?

Details and photos of our misadventures to follow....



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