No more work…..Or the work has just begun!

Since my last post, two pretty major things have happened, last Wednesday I finally took and passed my driving test, and I finally did my last day of work before the move to Moscow. Yesterday was my last day at work, which largely passed without much fuss just as I wanted, we did go out to the pub at lunch, and had a leaving presentation where I got a bottle of champagne.  Most people’s reaction to me being able to leave work and not go to another job has been either envy, pity, or bemusement, but hose who know me will know the truth.  The truth is I was happy to be leaving that particular job, even if I had some great colleagues who I shall miss, the job itself has been grinding me down for quite some time now. I had intended to leave late last year, but the Moscow opportunity came up for Lou so I could no longer leave my current job at the time to go to the fantastic job that had been offered to me. At the moment I believe I made the right decision, I needed a change and jumped at the opportunity of some time out, especially in Moscow.

So here I am at the end of the first day of my temporary ‘retirement’ and I am aching all over from all the packing and sorting of the room in the house known as the office. Everyone who has seen it will attest to the fact that it was an office only in words and that it had a computer, printer, etc in there and I can count on the fingers of one hand the number times I have used it as an office.  Anyway, the room is where we kept our junk; computer junk, old video tapes, wrapping paper, lots of pens, old books, CDs, old chargers; I think you are getting the picture! So today I have spent most of the day sorting it all into boxes to take to Moscow, boxes to go into storage, and bags of rubbish to be recycled or thrown out. There does seem to be way more of it than I estimated originally, but it feels better to have the room almost empty ready for painting tomorrow and its transformation into a bedroom reading for renting it out whilst we are gone.

I was due to go to Spain tomorrow to visit my parents for a long weekend until Monday, but my passport is having a tourist visa put in it for a short trip to Moscow next week!  Lou and I are both very excited to finally visit our new home city, even if people think we are insane for not visiting before agreeing to move there. The decision to move to Moscow was an easy one, and the initial decision took many seconds (about 2) for us both to make! Anyway, we are going over to Moscow overnight on Wednesday 4th March and will return on Sunday 8th, a relatively short amount of time to get our bearings and find a place to live, but it should be enough time.

So here we are, it is all finally starting to happen and I can’t wait, watch this space as I will no doubt be blogging whilst we are over there for the visit.

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