And the questions about the move just keep on coming… some I will never answer in a blog post but if you’ve asked, I’ve replied by email anyway – that’s good enough for those. Other questions will be answered in a series of posts I’ll be making about moving – stay tuned, I swear the first one will appear next week. Other questions, I’m trying to answer as time allows. Time. I need more of it.
Now, on optimism and positive thinking. Yea. Whatever. That’s pretty much my answer to those of you who are bound and determined to get me to look at the bright side. Yea. Whatever.
I spent more than 20 years moving around the world because the Air Force insisted I do so. I was full of optimism and positive thinking. Any time I see a military spouse upset about her new tour of duty, I kindly remind her that “your tour is what you make of it….”
I know, I know. Really, I do. I appreciate the attempts at positivity but they aren’t all that necessary. Once we’re in full-fledged move mode, I’ll be fine. Once we’re there, I’ll be mostly fine. In the meantime, I’m going to bitch as much as I want to – or need to, because believe me – I need to.
And while I’m sure living in the suburbs of Chicago will be AWESOME for a dozen reasons, it’s also never going to be a place that I regret leaving. This, I can guarantee. And that’s ok. I can live anywhere for eight or nine years. I’ve lived in worse places and under worse circumstances. It will be fine. Once we do it and once we settle into it.
And to answer one of Vered’s questions, very specifically…
Can you name something, anything, that is better over there compared with Gainesville?
I’ve already named one – Joy! Joy will live there! Joy who is the mother of THE Jory DesJardins. That’s better.
Also, major airport makes it much easier to book flights to wherever we need to go. Flying from Gainesville stinks – to put it mildly.
See? You ARE being (somewhat) positive. You already found TWO things that are better about the new place.
Plus, you are significantly less whiny than I was ten years ago, when we moved from Tel Aviv to Palo Alto.
I do not like moving. I do not like change. I don’t like the upheavel or the chaos. I can do it and will do it for the right reason, but it doesn’t change the fact that I don’t like it.
Bitch away. Moving stinks.
This is a total tangent from the current subject, but I just wanted to thank you for linking to my site the other day, but for some reason the comment thingy didn’t work on that post for me.
Moving?
I haven’t been by for a while and now I see you are coming up to my neck of the woods!
You could also add to your list, Melissa Ferrick plays in the Chcago area about 3 times a year.
As a hater of change, I can’t imagine going through the moves that you have. Chicago is a lovely city and easy to travel for sure. Good luck with the positive outlook….it ain’t so easy sometimes.