Now that we are settled into an apartment, I have noticed a change in my perspective. That move made the whole thing real. Before that, we could just punt on the whole thing and laugh about it. Now we are going. Things that bothered me about living and working here just don't get to me anymore. The traffic is just as bad as before, but I don't care. My boss is a pain, but I don't care. None of this matters anymore. It is very liberating. Don't get me wrong, I still get worked up over some things. They are just different things. My focus has changed.
Unplugging from our current life is a lot of work. I have a list of things that need to be done, but most of them cannot be done too far in advance. Many of them cannot be done until we own a boat. That is a year away. In the interim I do research and accomplish things as I can. One by one we go through our list of things and check them off or find a solution. We still need to downsize our closets. We have WAY too many clothes for living on a boat, but there is no hurry. We have a year to get there. We have to decide which furniture we are going to keep and store, and which we are going to give away. We have a car and an SUV that we have to get rid of. The list goes on, but most of the big things are getting done or at least decided.
Then there are the new things. All of us need to take first aid classes. There are immunizations that you need if you are travelling to many of the places we want to go. I'm not even sure my current shots are up to date. The kids' passports need to be renewed. We have decided to take our cat with us, so we need to become educated on what we need to have or do to travel with an animal.
We are going to the Bahamas next March for a week, just to remind ourselves of what we are going to do. There is some planning for that, but nothing out of the ordinary for a vacation. Most of our time now is being spent in thought. How do we want to do things? What do we want to do? So do not fear, while there may not be a lot of action over the next few months, as we decide things, we will let you know.
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