Regular readers will no doubt be aware that EDM and Family are having to move back to Brisbane after enjoying six months living in the hills behind Noosa. It's with regret that we're having to do so, but as I explained in this post a few weeks ago, the realities of mortgages and job security has bought it on.
We made the decision back in late January and it's been action stations in getting the move organised and getting prepared for a return to our former lives in Brisbane. The plan was for me to go back to my public service job, the wife to find a new job and for the son to return to his old daycare centre that we loved so much.
Accommodation-wise, it seemed quite fortuitous that an opportunity to house-sit for 5-6 months had come up so it was all arranged and we were pretty much all sorted. Alas, that housesitting opportunity has now fallen through a mere week or so before the move and we now find ourselves homeless. Well, homeless from next Monday when we actually move out of our Sunny Coast home.
So what to do? What to do? Any one got room at their 'inn' for a small family of three? Relatively clean and very courteous. Don't take up much room at all. Except for the son and his many trains, trucks, cars and bikes. We can even throw in a trampoline or multiple sherrins if that will sweeten a deal. Any one?
In all seriousness, looks like we'll merely continue down the path of moving most of our stuff into storage and may well have to land on our respective parents for a week or so while we find something more permanent. We could try and rush down to Brisbane and find a rental today/tomorrow for next week but there's too much risk that we'll rush into a decision being so desperate and make a bad choice. We certainly can't afford to get into any bidding war either.
One thing that I have noticed through all this, is that both the wife and I have been remarkably relaxed about our predicament. It's quite daunting thinking about what we'll need to be doing and organising over the next month but we haven't been too anxious or stressed by it all just yet. Maybe the word 'yet' is the crucial one there.
So maybe this little period up the coast and spending some quality time with each other has changed us both in some small way. Perhaps the 'chilled outness' and more relaxed state of mind up here has rubbed off and that's why we haven't turned into stress monkeys by the current scenairo. Just can't help thinking our previous selves back when we were living the 'rat race' in the big smoke would have reacted somewhat differently.
Who knows really. Just some amateur psychoanalysing and overindulging in the 'thinky' stuff. Perhaps as a form of denial and a way of diverting attention away from our predicament. You know, shuffling deckchairs on the Titanic and all that.
In any case, my frequency in posting over the next fortnight or so might come down a notch. There's plenty to think about, plenty to decide upon, and plenty to do. EDM is a man of action as well as a wordsmith, and an action man is what is needed right now.
So signing off until the next time, hopefully with some better news on living arrangements and alike.
EDM.
PS - Living through another 24 hour period of upwards of 200mm of rain falling here and in the towns around us. It was only Friday a week ago that we got 260mm in 18 hours which resulted in no access to Noosa and plenty of damage to the roads and infrastructure around Cooroy, Eumundi and Doonan. It was unbelievable to sit through, with a storm that last nearly six hours.
Well, today we're going through something similar. Tried to head into Noosa this morning for some groceries to find Eumundi-Noosa Rd closed again. Headed to Eumundi instead and plenty of tourists and out-of-towners walking into shops trying to get directions to here and there now that some of the roads are closed. There's also water across some of the access roads in and out of Verrierdale where we live.
Anyone got blueprints for an Ark?
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