Change of plans?

Depending on whether the car needs to stay in the garage, and whether the back door by some stroke of amazing intervention magically opens, I may be travelling to Bristol tonight after work. I'll know by the afternoon, but I am already packed!

5 days!

In five days time I will be back living with Gareth on our own! As it's been about 10 months, we are a little excited about having our own space again. We have really appreiciated my mother-in-law and her husband putting us up (and putting up with us!) for so long.
I'm very excited about moving, although I am a little worried about the job situation - i.e. I won't have one. However, as this has been a tough time and I haven't had a break for what seems like an age I've still decided to take a couple of weeks off before starting to look for work again.

In theory, we should have internet access sorted by the end of the month. However, knowing what some telephone providers can be like I'm not sure when I will be able to blog again.

Saltram Park 5km

Image from: www.panoramio.com

I entered this race before I knew we were moving, so I hadn't really had time to train properly for it. I had also done an 18hr day the day before as we went to Bristol early to get the keys to the house before I started my shift at 17:15. I'd also not really eaten properly the day of the race so I didn't have a lot of expectation for my performance. However, I was quite surprised to find that I took about 4 minutes off my old PB!

Moving!

Well, the removals arrived yesterday and all our stuff was packed within an hour. Gareth headed up early to make sure someone was there when they arrived - he was concerned about getting lost so wanted a head-start!
I've since moved back into my parents whilst I work my notice at work. I'll be heading up to Bristol in about two and a half weeks. It gives me time to get the dogs rules back a bit as they have got away with rather a lot more than they do with us!

Maelstrom!

Well, after whinging that things were taking a while to sort out, we found out we can get the keys tomorrow! We are driving up in the morning to collect them and pop round the house to sort a few bits out (i.e. make lists of stuff we'll need to get, get the electric connected etc.) then will head back so I can get to work in the evening. It'll be a long day as we'll need to be on the road at 7am and I don't finish work till 9:15pm, then I have a 5km race on Saturday evening. You'd think I'd learn not to complain about nothing happening really, wouldn't you?!
The removal company is arriving on Monday and then my Mum can have her sewing room back which she sacrificed for storing out stuff!

On the move... eventually

Once again, I've been very busy! But at least this time it is with a goal in sight. Gareth has been accepted onto a Masters at Bristol so we have been sorting out a move to there. We have found a house to rent but as the company the letting agent use to check details etc. crashed a couple of days ago, our move in date has been delayed. We should have had the keys this Monday, but it's looking more likely to be next Monday now. I've been pretty busy collecting all our belongings into one place and packing them (so very bored with that now!) and dealing with all the frustration that brings. We are still not sure whether to use a removal company or hire a van for our relatives to drive (we've only had our licences less than a year, so can't hire the van ourselves yet).
I'll be heading up about three weeks after Gareth whilst I work my notice, then I'll come up with the dogs. That way they won't have to cope with unpacking etc. as well as a new environment to get used to.

At least life seems to be shifting out of this rut and moving forward finally!