In 99 days, we will board an airplane with all our earthly possessions and two cats with one way tickets to Amsterdam.
(note: most of our earthly possessions will be in a 20 ft shipping container. Sadly they won't let the cats travel in the shipping container).
On Monday night, D accepted a job with an awesome company and so now, we're just going to go. Just pick up and (in 99 days) GO.
Naturally, this is terrifying. and exciting. and sad. and exhilarating. Between the two of us, we have felt every single emotion listed in the emotions book.
But here's the thing, we can't really tell everyone yet. Because we're keeping our jobs for the next three-whole-months. So right now we're in the quiet phase of the campaign. We're letting the key stakeholders know. Like our parents, and our siblings, and my friend who really likes excuses to visit Amsterdam, and my friend who travels to Amsterdam for work.
Right now we're making lists of all the things we have to do in the next 99 days. We keep checking in with each other to see if it is really real. We occasionally look at photos of Amsterdam during a rough patch in the work day to remember what our future holds. We try really hard, during those rough patches, not to shout in the middle of meetings, "I'm leaving!" We're googling how to move a cat, and will my kitchen-aid mixer work, and yoga studios in Amsterdam.
And we're starting a blog, because everyone keeps telling me I have to start a blog. So I used an old gmail address and fired up a brand new blogspot (D said if I write enough maybe he'll give me a custom URL for Christmas. Won't be the first time...).
Here we go.
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