Please Apply Brakes

Sometimes you wish for things to move quickly, sometimes a more steady pace. Right now I could do with a big red emergency stop button.

When I was a child, I used to love playing on the roundabout at the park, you know the one that you push to make it go faster and faster? Once I got flung off because someone made it go too fast and I couldnt hold on. I grazed my knees badly on the concrete. That's how I feel now, going too fast.

It was only a couple of months ago that the notion of buying the the house was just a thought and nothing else. A dot on the horizon. Now there is a possibility that we may be living there by Christmas. A daunting thought as the work between now and then is enough to bring on an attack of 'the vapours'.

Three weeks ago Father in Law had his house valued. Two weeks ago we had ours valued, a week ago we had a survey done, three days ago our house went on the market, yesterday two of three couples who have been to view ours said they loved it. They should do at the price we are selling it for!

So we wait to see if either of the 'we love it's' actually put in an offer. One is likely to be able to proceed quickly, the other has a house to sell. This gives me a huge headache as there is fifty years of 'clutter' and a huge amount of furniture to sort out at FIL's, the sorting and packing at this end and all on top of some major work on the house itself, that ideally should be done before we move in.

....And then there is the new job role on top of the old job role. In order to keep my sanity, I should be coming home at night, relaxing, doing things to take my mind off the list of 'Things to Do' that niggles at me constantly. - That's the 'Things to Do for Work' list by the way, not the 'Things to Do at Home' or 'Things to Do at Dads' list.

Instead, Im wide awake at 3:07am on a Saturday morning, a millon things flying round in in my head. Trying to decide whether to go and do more clearing at Dad's today or catch up on some work. That'll be after the new carpet is fitted in the dining room of course, and all the furniture put back.

Maybe I will go and have a massage or a walk along the beach.....just to catch my breath!

 

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