Home?

The Nerd is off fixing things in the land of mermaids as we speak, he'll be home by tonight. It'll be a couple months till we hear which direction they are likely to send us.

Mermaid direction or Canadialand direction. DG was saying how she's now 5yrs in land of Scots and it got me to thinking about the whole expat lifestyle. Being torn between 2, sometimes 3 places you call home.

It's not easy, it hurts a lot of the time and it can be lonely. You miss so many birthdays, anniversaries, funerals, births, weddings and holidays in general when there isn't enough money to fly out at a moments notice.
Maybe it's just my personal experience but I missed 7 years worth because we were financially depleted building a nerdy empire.

Now that it's a possibility to go a couple times/year we hear it may also be a possibility that "they" will be sending us in that direction anyway so hurray! Happiness right? Oh but wait, well it's also a possibility to be sent in another direction. Really now!
Well it is the city I've always dreamt of so only good things right?!

Sure, after promising everyone at 'home' we'll be back. Now it could be another 5-7 years of biannual visits?
It took me a long time to realise that it's no good promising people things if not 100% capable of delivering ;)

Life changes at a moments notice. I'm now pretty much set on the idea of buying a 10 bedroom house so there's plenty of space for everyone to visit, then stop promising them constant visits and letting it be well known that if you wanna visit, COME ON OVER THIS WAY :D

Nope, it ain't easy bein' an expat torn between different loves and lives.

shhhh

I did something naughty and bought a bag to cheer myself up ;)




It's soft'n'fuzzy and I love it to bits. I'm not into brands or anything and wouldn't be caught dead spending a ton of money on things like bags and shoes when I can do something smart like invest it, I just can't convince myself that it's worth it... if I love it I buy it without looking at names or price tags.

Buying a bag is never naughty in and of itself but the taxservice is coming down hard on us this year --as they tend to do-- and because we went a little crazy on our holiday spending an entire months salary in 3 weeks, we had to tell the taxservice to be patient and they are throwing little fits.

This only means I won't be dipping in to the clothing allowance any time soon but one wee bag doesn't make so much difference... Plus, HAPPY!

Love love love it, almost as much as cheese and not nearly as much as I love mah sexxaaaaay NERD!

ignore the neuroses

That happens sometimes, everything building up then there are a series of small explosions in my brain and all is reset like a computer rebooting itself.

All is perfectly fine now, well as fine as things ever will be on this side of the loony fence ;)

here a llama there a llama and another little llama