I have so much news, it's all happened so fast. It feels like every day magic, I got ready for things to happen to me again and they started right away.
1. We bought an apartment. Got a pretty great price on a place without any catch we could find, did a lot of due diligence and we're taking possession the day we got back from Thailand. I think about this quote I read one time, it was about how somebody lost their fortune, or power, or how a revolution happened or something and he said "slowly, and then all at once." That's how I feel about buying this place. I had looked a lot and had a short list we decided not to action, and then I was keeping a casual eye on things and I saw this place come up way under market and thought what's the catch, so I went to view it and then within two days we were making an offer. It was pretty incredible. And then the whirlwind of reading contracts and body corporate documents etc. And now here we are about to embark on that next adventure. It's a one bedroom one bathroom, no car park apartment in the valley, in a 160 unit building that's all long term rentals. It has a lap pool and lagoon pool, outdoor unheated, a quality gym, big entertainment area with couches and a pool table and a rooftop viewing area as well as a reading room and a grassy central area. It's 50 square meters so pretty small but we plan to keep a foot in our house and all our stuff as we get it set up, so no drastic moving and liquidating plans. It's a 12 minute walk from Jeremy's work. I've been jokingly calling it our pied a terre and my birthday present.
2. Well I am on my way to a week in Thailand right now. We're doing a week, resort style, poolside bar, daily massages, great food, relaxing. It's a detox vacation for Jem basically, it's been a year since he went on vacation and starting a new job and all means he's extra ready for one. But we conveniently planned it over Valentine's day and my birthday so I feel there's a lot there for me as well.
3. I'm taking off for three months over the winter again, May 15- August 20 or so. I'm meeting my mom in Paris, then we're traveling together on a loop from Paris to Amsterdam (probably) to St. Petersburg back to Munich, the black forest and back to Paris over about six weeks. Anne and RJ are meeting us in Munich for a group trip there.
Then we fly home with a quick couple day stopover for an art and Claudia trip in Boston. My mom heads home and I head to Ann Arbor to visit Nick and Kimmi, who moved out there last year. Come back about the seventh, girls trip with Anne etc on the 13th weekend, then probably VA and back in Gboro from about the 20th to about the seventh.
August 7 or so I route back out to London, spend a week crashing with Joanna and partying in London and surrounds and then hop my flight to Paris, and home from there.
So it's a big figure eight kind of loop. And I keep my status as a migratory bird.
