Where does the time go?

Hey everyone, well definately on the no going back now route ! 16 days to go before landing and residing in Canada.

Life has been ever so manic with shipping companies messing me around and yes I did sack NZ Vanlines who are the most useless bunch of ....I have ever come across. In what business can you not return clients phonecalls, ignore emails and push the price up 2 weeks before leaving when the client has taken out 4 boxes of the shipment ? I ask you, so they are history.

The new company are collecting our goods next Tuesday 24th and then the stuff gets shipped and arrives in Vancouver in 6 weeks time, yea hah.

Work has been good but manic, I am extremely tired but I am coping. Mark is being supportive and although complaining about costs of moving and the fact that we have no bed is doing ok.

Ashley has very kindly bought us a Nissan Pathfinder to drive around in which means we have trasnport immediately and I can start getting used to traffic and road systems etc.

I am over whelmed by the support of our friends and how they are keeping us going with nice emails and you will make it kindof stuff.

Have you ever done something you have been so sure of and just had a gut feeling to do it, as that's what I have.....

I also have and dare I put this out there, a feeling of an offer on the house on the 20th, that date has been in my head for sometime now, so we shall see.

The auction on the house is next week on the 26th. The agent is confident he will sell it, Mark thinks not but again we just have to wait and see. We have tenants who want it for 5 years and to buy at the end of the 5 years so again it's a waiting game and we shall see what happens. ALl depends on the market and where we are at and what we are doing.

We have already said if Canada didn't work for any reason then we would come back to NZ we would not return to the UK.

So tonight Mark is working on a friends car, so I will head home and let the dogs out of their runs, feed them and then pop the laptop on and basically just finish organising stuff. The shipping agent has said I can add a box back in as it makes no odds whatsoever to the price so I am going to quickly have a re evaluate and see where we are at. If I can add a box in I might as well take some stuff out of the suitcase but I will see how I feel. If it's looking stupid to add one box back in for a coat then obvioulsy not ! SO that's my evening all mapped out and I sincerely hope to get an early night, they have been seriously lacking in the last few months.

The weather here is still wamr, we are 28 degrees today and I am quite honestly sick of the heat now. The last few days have been showers and a bit cooler and that has been a welcome tempreture change, will be quite nice to put a jumper on, not so sure about the whole snow thing but I will let you know.

Be nice to have Christmas in the snow again !

Well that's me for a few days, tired but happy...lot's of love to everyone xx