Happy Friday Folks and Happy October-did I write anything in here this month?
Big news-our home is cleared and clean and waiting for its new owners to love it when they take the keys today. It's been a hell of a week.
I wondered if we might get a bit emotional but we were too busy to feel much of anything except tired :-)
We worked till 2.30 am on the day of departure (Tues) and it's just as well that I am going back to Edinburgh again because there is a mountain of stuff at a friends house just waiting for me to lovingly get rid of. Ger has been fantastic both with her cleaning help and her kindness in storing stuff at hers till I finish the Mindfulness pilot project in Edinburgh. My thanks go out to my wee sis, my niece and Vivien for helping me clean, to Susan for offering and to the wonderful Howies next door plus my father-in-law for their support in clearing the junk.
The Mindfulness project and the fact that I'll be in Edinburgh for 9 weeks till Christmas Eve may be news to some of you.
I had put in my proposal to be part of the project before Mountcastle sold and Bill was soooo happy to have me home for the 8 week pilot but it is now role reversal and he'll be with the kids in Toronto and I will be alone in Edinburgh. Go figure.
All for a reason, me thinks and it's a good job I believe that. I do think that I am meant to be involved in the project and that it will open more doors for my own work.
Ger has kindly given me a bed (a whole room as luckily Rosanne is travelling) and I am very grateful for her generous heart. Sandra, Lorraine and my wee Sis have also opened up their homes for me to stay when I want to give Ger a break from me. I am so blessed to have such kindness surrounding me. We sold our car but between Ger, Sandra and my wonderful father-in-law, I will have a car pretty much any time I need one.
I plan to be busy so if anyone in the Edinburgh area would like a Reiki session or a Bach consult just let me know. I will be teaching Bach Level 1 on Wednesday evenings, so let me know if you are interested in learning and if you just happen to be thinking about learning Reiki or Mindfulness-perhaps reading this is a sign :-)
There will also be a small workshop on Nov 28th that some of you may like to add into your busy Christmas schedules. It will be a lovely day spent with other women in mindfulness. It will include meditations, music and some creativity. It will run from 10am till 4pm and cost £30. Remedies will be available (as always) to choose a mix to help you to be 'Calm for Christmas'
My contact details are a bit sketchy except via FB or my bach email. If you need me you will find me folks.If I can go back to the 'hell of a week' it seems like communication and time have been the two big issues. Lots of little annoying stuff coupled with bigger stuff have meant that my mindfulness and trust have been s t r e t c h e d to the limit on occasion and almost past it yesterday when we were informed that a necessary form needed to close the house sale, had still not arrived in Glasgow. YIKES. Hopefully by the time I post this, it will have arrived because otherwise I have to potentially set someone speeding to Glasgow with a second form.
The girls more than coped without us parents and it bodes well for the scenario of buying our new home outside of Toronto and leaving Alison in the apartment till she finishes school. Wow-did I just write that?
If I go back to last weekend and my realisation that my prediction for having the house cleared and cleaned was a tad optimistic, that's when things began to feel pressured.
It was always going to get done but I had no clue that we'd go to the wire. Sleeping on a duvet for a couple of hours and then having to deliver yet more stuff to Gers before we flew out on Tuesday was never in my plan of action....but we did it. The airport side of things was a bit of a joke on the way back. Between the having our water that we'd bought in Edinburgh, for the long leg of the journey, taken off us in London because we had to go through a second British security point was ludicrous as we didn't go anywhere to have done anything to it. Trying to buy some more, from a machine which first of all told us exact change...after we inserted a £2 coin, took the next £1.70 we fed it, returning our £2 as 5 pences and then refused to give us the bottle of water which dropped down inside the machine made us even shorter fused about Heathrow airport and we boarded our flight with no water. Bonus was that we had a spare seat and we both managed to get some decent shut eye and I just asked for extra water on the plane.
Our car purchase has been fun and games also with some miscommunication but by the end of today, we ought to be driving our Ford Escape around. we had to swap licences to Canadian ones and for Bill and I it went smoothly although I stood in a queue outside for an hour and inside for 2 but hey ho. Jen unfortunately has only been given an intermediate licence (apparently because she's been driving for less than two years) which means that she may have to sit a test if she wants a full licence. If we had hind site or one of us had been with her to ask the questions, we may have kept her British one for another six months to get her full licence. Our 'Super' Nicole did battle with them on the phone yesterday (Bill and I were out) and she plans to take Jen up there to fight her case today-lol. Great to have such passionate allies.
My hairdo yesterday was also a miscommunication where I was booked in for a double apt which I thought was cut/colour but which turned out to be colour plus highlights which cost me double what I usually pay for a colour....groan. But my hair is lovely.....a bit long, but lovely.
What else? Oh I better stop here and post this.
Fantastic news is that the form landed on the lawyers desk at noon-yippppeeee and phew. I sent her a wholly inappropriate 'Samantha, I could Kiss you' reply but that's how I felt.
Signing off with huge hugs to all,
Lxxx
