What?!
Yes, we are moving back to the
United States.
Why?
I want to be closer to my family and the
friends I have loved all my life. I hate
my job. Kevin has been very sick and is
finishing treatment and we want to start a new chapter. We move every three years and the clock ran
out on Adelaide last month. I am
bored. There is no place like home. Why not?
Do you have
jobs?
No
Where are
you going to live?
That has yet to be decided.
Where are
you going to stay?
Not sure yet.
What are
you going to do?
Ask me later.
Are you
taking your stuff?
Yes, the movers are coming on June 24/25. They do all the packing, so we just need to
sort through stuff. We are selling
everything that runs on electricity or explosive fuels.
What about
Kevin’s treatment?
Kevin takes his last injection on June 19th
and his last pills on June 26 – which is the day we will leave Adelaide! He’ll have his final blood work done and will
be free from the tyranny of his 8 hour eating schedule. It will still be several months before the
side effects dissipate, and he won’t be feeling tip-top by any means, but we
just can’t stomach the thought of sitting around, waiting to feel better…he’ll
get some meds to take with us, and then we’ll find a doctor in the US for some
follow up care.
What about
health insurance?
Yeah, well isn’t that a question that keeps
people trapped, eh? We will take out
travel insurance to cover any serious accidents, but otherwise we will be
paying as we go until we get jobs and have proper insurance that hopefully won’t
exclude Kevin from everything. We are
Australian citizens, so worse comes to worst we can always come back and go on
the dole…we have an emergency cash fund for such an eventuality.
What about
Bad, Bad Kitty?
As you can see from my answers to the above
questions, we won’t be very stable when we land. BBK doesn’t take to change well, and we didn’t
feel we could keep her safe and happy, so we decided to find her a new
home. BBK has gone to live on 5 acres in
the Adelaide Hills with a lovely American man and his Aussie/American wife,
where she will have cat doors, kangaroo meat, a bounty of rodents to chase, and
fresh steamed broccoli. They have a good understanding of cat psychology. They don’ have kids and they have two other cats
– which will be a challenging social experiment for her, but hey, it is a time
for all of us to spread our wings and fly.
Actually, she got a pretty darn good deal out of this and I suspect will
be happier there than she was with us…it has been a tough year for everyone in
our household.
Are you
coming to Melbourne?
Yes, we will be driving to Melbourne arriving
Thursday June 27 for a three day good-bye piss-up.
Are you
coming to Sydney?
Yes. We will
be arriving in Sydney on July 1st.
July 4th will be our final night. I propose a red, white, and blue party, but
have yet to organize anything…we will be staying in the CBD, near Chinatown.
Wow.
Yeah. No Shit.
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