A Little More Conversation...Please?

Sadly the last few weeks have not been as eventful as we've hoped.  Unless you count trying to clean and pack around house showings and our jobs as eventful.

Our documentation was only just (hopefully) sent off to Warsaw, and hopefully it doesn't take as long to get the work permit as the date we were given.  It will still take 15 days for us to get our work visas AFTER we go down to the Polish consulate in Vancouver to apply for them in person.  Apparently there's a loophole where we can get the ball rolling with a promise from our employer to secure a work permit, but getting in touch with anyone at the consulate to have this explained has been something of a nightmare.  Apparently working in consular services must be sweet, because their office is only open for 3 hours each day.

At least we're moving before the government goes through with their decision to move the consulate to Edmonton.

But on lighter notes...

My resignation date is the 17th of August.  After 8 long years at the Kamloops Real Canadian Superstore, I have finally put the glorious words of freedom in writing.  Working at 5 AM is still as exhausting as ever, but my feet are lighter knowing that one day very soon they will never have to walk into the backroom again.

Also did a preliminary purge of the wardrobe a couple of days ago.  Sarah and I already have a basket of winter clothes and professional stuff put aside to get put into suitcases because we aren't likely to need them before September.

I need to go to my parent's place to get the oxblood leather luggage set that they've had put aside for me since before I was born.  It's like they knew this day was coming.

And then we pick up the other suitcases we have set aside at Bentley.  Apparently this is the time to travel, because they're having a buy one get one half off event and the ones we were looking at suddenly became a very reasonable deal.

In the meantime, all I can do is bust my ass at home and at work until things fall into place.

And try to plan our going away party...