AAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH

stress what stress?????? i am now officially stressed. we move out in 2 days and the only person that seems to care is me!!!!!!!!! there is enough washing to be done to keep a chinese laundry in business for a month, the shipping company are coming today and the pile for them just keeps growing!!!!!!! i cant eat i cant sleep and my smoking has increased ten fold! michael keeps finding homers to do, the kids social lives have taken on new meaning while i just sit smouldering away!!! oh anyone want a lilac fronted chest of drawers and matching entertainment unit oh and of course a 6 month old light beech tv and video cabinet??? free to good home as long as it can be removed within two days!!!!!! i have just realised that we have only two hours between each flight, shit now i am totally frantic, what if any of them are delayed???? we could be stranded in a foreign country!!!!! now i know that i MUST visit the doctor to get something before i explode! natalie help me please!!!!!!!

clock

hooray, natalie has posted a count down clock for me!!!! way hey!! now everytime anyone logs on they can see how long i have left in this country!!! its really stressful trying to get round everyone that you want to see before you leave. so little time so much to do!!

finally

well this is definately it. our flat is sold, my notice is in and the flights are booked! we leave aberdeen on wednesday the 5th of july, drive to heathrow and fly to perth on thursday the 6th of july. we will arrive on friday the 7th of july at 5pm. now all i have to do is get packed and visit the doctor for some valium and a shed load of nicotine patches!!!!! 20 bloody hours with no fags!!!! it will be a toss up as to whether michael and i kill each other or the kids!! this should be fun!!!! am off to the aberdeen highland games today, we go every year and as with every bloody year the weather is crap!!!! never mind last one to be enjoyed!!!!!

Perth here we come

Well this is it. We have had what my solicitor calls a 'clean' offer on the flat which we have accepted. It will be all legally binding come 5pm tomorrow. We will be homeless on the 30th of June so I guess that means that we will be moving to Australia the 1st week of July. Its all a bit scary, exciting and sad all at the same time. We will of course miss our friends and family heaps. I wish that I had magic powers so that I could just wiggle my nose and flit back and forth between oz and the UK whenever I wanted. Of course this is what Michael and I want, the chance to change our life and improve the opportunities for our children. It is a huge thing for us, neither of us have ever lived far away from our families but as everyone keeps telling me, its the right thing to do. It really hit home when I phoned my gramma to tell her things were finally coming together she said that she wanted me to visit before I left and she knew it was the right thing to do but she knows that once we go I will never see her again. shes 87 and failing year by year, it really hit home that there will be people who I will probably never see again and this makes me sad. But we cant live our lives wondering what if, rather feel remorse than regret. We have been talking about this for nearly 20 years and would rather try and fail than sit here in another 20 years wishing that we had done it.

so nat be prepared for me to be a pain in the ass since i wont know anyone else but you and davo! i am sure that we will not regret this decision and that this is the 1st chapter of the rest of our lives!!!

and how the night goes on

see how easily we lose the plot and get drunk. a good night was had by all. we will have to have another one to say goodbye. we will miss everyone muchness but you can all come and visit!!!!!!

the evils of drink

my family have corrupted my son!(nothing to do with me of course!) here we are in our local pub 'the bells' its about 1am and my son and lil bro kenny are minced, they have just treated the entire bar of their own version of elvis dancing. it was the funniest thing i have seen in a long time.

saturday night out in aberdeen

me and my man on saturday night, it was a mix of my lil bro georges 18th, my lil bro greg visiting from jersey and just an excuse for a night out!!!!

now i am excited!!!!

well now i have just finished a 12.5 hour night shift and i cant bloody sleep! am so excited i could pee!!!!!!!!!!! i am so happy that i cant think straight!!! there is so much to do, get the family ready! fight with murrae as to which toys are worth paying to bring across the other side of the world, bribe stevi into leaving her rubbish clothes here and getting new ones in oz, persuading michael that he can buy just as good power tools in oz as he has here and mikey, well, just getting him on the plane will be a miracle, hes in the teenage world where nothing is more important than members of the opposite sex, football and sky tv!!! never mind that we have to sell and empty the flat, book flights and find somewhere to live!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my god i am freaking myself out here, maybe its better if i just go to bed and not think about it for a couple of hours!!!!!!!!!

this is it!!!! hold on to your hat nat we're coming to australia

well this is it folks, we officially received our visas today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i cant believe it!!!!!!!!!!!! we are definately going to australia!!!!!!!!!!!!!! all i need to do now is sell my flat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so all you friends and family start praying or whatever you do that someone comes along and snaps it up soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is fab, if nat can do it then i can!!! ok she had to talk me through it!!!! this is a pic of the same night! 3 of my best friends, nat of course off to paradise, rhona off to essex with the love of her life and jill my 'chummy', after i go she will be all alone!! sorry chummy, start saving now!!!

Ssh, yer didn't see me, I wasn' ere!

Have hi-jacked 'er website thingy!

Don't we look drunk?

Nat x

scary stuff

well everyone else is doing it so i thought what the hell!!! this is for all my friends and family so that we can keep them up to speed on our 'Big Adventure'. currently we are anxiously awaiting verification of our visas for oz. my nursing registration has been finalized and last communications from the migration agent was visas 'pending registration'!! guess this is it then folks! the flat has been on the market for a week and we have has a good offer. i will be phoning the solicitor today for her advice. oh my god we could be homeless soon!!

the on going saga of us moving lock stock and barrel to australia has been a long one! 18 years in fact! michael got the chance of moving abroad when he was 18, we were a two income no children family, but alas i was young and needed to be near my folks. over the years we spoke about it frequently but it never seemed to be the right time, kids were too young, we were too skint etc etc. however, years later i have my nursing qualification, the kids are the right age and one of my best friends deserted me to live in paradise!! its a bit like fate, we decided that this was it and lo and behold there appears an advertisement in the local paper for skilled workers to migrate to WA!!!! we apply, go for interview in glasgow, take copies of all our cv's, qualifications etc and then we get an email to say that all paper work has been lost! 1st instance of lots of tears from me!! now this hasnt been easy for us, its been dragging on forever and with plenty of tears from me. its been hard work and very stressful collating all paper work, getting medicals and chest x-rays etc, while trying to work fulltime and look after the family, but we think that we are finally getting there.

so there thats our saga! i will update this as and when things change!!!