Today I had a friend ask me if I had started the countdown to my trip home. I almost choked on my cupcake. I started my countdown the minute I bought my plane tickets in July! The fact that I’m starting my last full week of work before my holiday tomorrow seems unreal. It’s also slightly anxiety-inducing as I’m in the middle of a complicated project at work. Whatever I don’t finish before I leave someone else will have to take over, and I’d feel kind of like a jerk if I left someone else to deal with it.
So for me the clock is ticking very loudly, both too fast and too slow.
Hurry hurry hurry. Slow slow slow. Half of my day is spent feeling one way, half is spent the other. I’m also getting very excited as the completion of an important project that I did a lot of work on is coming up. Construction is scheduled to be completed on December 5 and miraculously is even ahead of schedule. I’ll just get to see it finished before I take off on the 9th. I may even snap a few photos to share when I’m home. Then you can see what it is I am so busy doing here!
I haven’t completed any new crafty projects lately to share, but I did purchase a big item – a bed!
the best bed ever
The one I’d been sleeping on was a double size mattress & box set that had seen better days. I knew it needed replacing, but a bed is a big investment, so I’ve been holding off on doing it. When my parents decided to make the trip out here in March, I knew I had a deadline. I went to have a look at some bed frames and mattresses to see what I could afford about a month ago and ended up at the same furniture store that I purchased my sofa (which I love) at. They cut me a really sweet deal on a frame and mattress. It was manufactured here in Victoria and delivered a week ago. And let me tell you. It. Is. Heaven. Every night I lay down and suddenly it’s morning. My savings have been stretched a little thin because of it, but I’m sleeping like a dream and even better, I know my parents will. It’s a lot to ask someone to travel ten thousand miles to spend some time with you, it’s a whole other thing to ask them to sleep on a sub par mattress after making that journey.
And speaking of mattresses, I can’t wait to see my old bed from my last apartment in Ames. I’m going to curl up on it with my dog and it’ll be like the last 2 years never were. Isn’t how funny how time moves at seemingly different speeds and can occasionally even feel like it never existed? I’m looking forward to “going back in time” when I revisit some of my old haunts and old friends. Just 12 days my friends, 12 days!
