a series of mid life crices

I didn’t write any lists today but I did take some stuff to an antique dealers, I was going to chuck it but my friend suggested getting it valued, turns out it wasn’t rubbish after all and it’s being sold in July.

Did achieve a couple of things; Booked the dog for his Rabies shot and passport interview, that’s on Monday, cancelled the TV and phone. Also sent our beautiful acers to their foster home, (I don’t expect I’ll get them back!) Managed to persuade the council to send three years worth of council tax bills which we need to take to the Greek Embassy, no easy task!

There is only the kitchen and the big furniture left to pack. Oh and our clothes. Still waiting for Thing Two and Lucky to realise we’re actually going.

Went back on my diet today; had to lose weight for skiing in case the snow didn’t hold me. Have spent the last few weeks eating too much, so looking like I’ve got my ski gear under my clothes. Will have to fit into a swimsuit soon so back to eating dust and chewing gum!

I’m feeling a bit spaced out now that the deed is done, I think I had got very used to being stuck in limbo.

As I look around at the amount of stuff we have accumulated over the years I am wondering how much of it was absolutely necessary. I have become quite ruthless in my disposal of things that I thought I liked, at the same time I’ve been buying junk that perhaps may not be essential, for example I have a fabulous full face mask for snorkeling and some special shoes for walking on rocks in the sea. All this has to be packed in special boxes for the ‘adventure’.  I have to call it that to ensure that I don’t descend into panic when remembering that we have almost sold everything, not sure whether we are approaching the start or finish line.

Tomorrow I will begin making lists.

We finally exchanged today and we will complete on 30th April so it’s action stations and hurry up and find somewhere to live if you haven’t already!

I can’t really write anything else because we celebrated three birthdays at the pub this evening and I need to be sober and write properly because my brother thinks I sound like Adrian Mole.

Greece here we come!

We have had a much more optimistic weekend following the news on Friday.  We bunked off on Saturday to the seaside with the dog, who thoroughly enjoyed being dragged into the sea; he does need to learn how to swim. One of us was more than happy to walk eight kilometers and run in and out of the sea with the dog and one of us wanted to go and get back in the car.  Still, it was the first sunshine of the year and as such had to be celebrated.

Child One has an impacted wisdom tooth so we are wishing her the best of luck with finding a suitable dentist.  Otherwise we are all fit and healthy, if you don’t count middle age, hay fever, the onset of alcoholism and weight gain.  Thing two spent Saturday at the gym; sunbathing, sitting in the hot tub and drinking beer, not quite the work out I expected.  Lucky stayed on the computer only leaving his room if absolutely essential.

We cooked our final Sunday roast today and sat around the table together,  (not Lucky, would have interrupted his game, so he had room service) with the reckless and  the handsome (two of our surrogate children), the meal only slightly delayed by the handsome having to run home and get plates so that we could have one each, and I cried a bit, it made me sad that it was the last Sunday we would sit and eat together at this house.  Nobody else cared!

 

Of all the days that could have been, I did not want to exchange today, but at 4.30 pm I got a call from the agent saying everything was in place.  Luckily my solicitor had bunked off early and nobody could get hold of him so I don’t look like a superstitious clot (or uglystitious as my sister would say).

Anyway, Monday it is, which is lovely because we’re going on a road trip to collect another piece of rubbish requiring refurbishment that will need to be stored for a project at a later date.  No project will ever be forthcoming and our storage facility is currently stuffed with unnecessary crap.  We have half an apple press, some wood turning machines and tons of wood, just bits of wood, I am reliably informed that they are special bits of wood, but it just looks like old planks to me.

Now that it’s really happening I shall have to make my best effort to organise this family into packing their belongings and finding alternative accommodation, I’ve packed the bell tent so Jamar’s garden is a no go.

Seventeen days and counting!

No it didn’t happen again today.

Fairy godmother has gone to Amsterdam and I haven’t got a key so I can’t run away until she returns, maybe she’s stocking up to help her to cope with our presence!

On the upside BFF stayed all night and I coloured her hair blue this morning to cheer myself up, I do love her!

It would appear that the business sale is proceeding faster than the house sale, unexpected but very exciting, does mean that spending time in company of spouse will happen earlier than planned.   Question for self; after this many years of working 18 hour days and rarely seeing each other is this a wise move?  (A bit late now)

Had a wonderful visit from two of my cousins today, couldn’t believe I hadn’t seen them for 10 years, when someone belongs it always seems like yesterday.  If everything had gone to plan the new people would have been shocked, hopefully those golden boys would have known that it wasn’t me! Have decided to plan a get together for whole family before we go and force everyone to make an effort, should take my mind off solicitors for a minute.

If it doesn’t happen tomorrow it will be a shit weekend for everybody!

I’m going slowly crazy waiting – no nothing happened today – we are waiting for one piece of paper ONE!  I was relieved to hear that everything else is in place and as soon as this piece of paper arrives it will be a fait accompi.  Frankly I a smidge sceptical that it will ever happen.

Anyway I emptied Child one’s bedroom, four bin liners later there is a lovely tidy room for my BFF who is coming from Cornwall tonight to beat me into regaining my sanity.   I have found so many things on my clearing out, at least half of them have no useful purpose and some I have absolutely no idea what they are.  What am I supposed to do with such things, historically anything I have arbitrarily thrown away has proved to be utterly essential within 24 hours of the bin being emptied.  Well when they find out this time, hopefully, I will be in the wind!

 

 

Oh dear lord it’s five past five and nothing has happened again, every time the phone rings I get butterflies, it’s just as stressful as waiting for the call to ask me to collect a teenage thing two from the police station again, which happened almost every time he left the house!

I cleaned out the fridge and we will mostly be eating beer and potatoes for the next two weeks, with jam if they complain.  I don’t know whether to put the pictures back on the walls or leave them and store them on Thursday.  I called the estate agent but she hasn’t replied.  We were supposed to be at our fairy godmother’s house by now and I miss her!

Today is the birthday of a very special lady who was a great inspiration to me, she followed her heart, always smiled and trusted that everything would be fine.  We miss her every day.

I’m going to yoga tonight – Tinkerbelle usually comes but she’s on holiday so I’m going with my blonde bombshell instead and she always cheers me up!

Today was another working day when nothing happened, we’ve not exchanged again.  My stress levels which were so much reduced yesterday are back at high plus plus again.  Apparently we are waiting for an indemnity form from one of the  buyers’ bank, I almost want to throw my toys out and say sod off then but we’ve come this far and we’ve waited ten months, what is a few more weeks?   I have decided to put everything back because we can’t sit at the dining table and we can’t see the floor, I’ll have to do something because if it all falls through we will have to start again and no one will want to buy our house when they can’t get through the front door.   And I have to change the beds again!

Oh well the dog had a haircut today and is now half the size he was this morning and is jumping around like a spring lamb, he must be so relieved, they showed me the bin liner full of his hair!   At least someone is happy.

Yesterday was a great day, we spent our lunch with some lovely people who drove two hours just to eat with us.  They increased our excitement levels to an enormous extent because they are doing the same thing as us, but in a far more organised and sensible manner!  Now we need to get things moving here.

It was supposed to be sunny, we were to take the dogs so that they could meet but it was raining again and our dog hasn’t spent enough time in a pub to ensure his good behaviour,  we shall have to fix that in the near future!

I didn’t write this yesterday because we ate too much at lunch,  lit the fire and finished most of the bottles…..