8.24.2005

last this, last that

I'm late this morning because I was - ta-da! - making my last trip to the laundromat! Whoo-hoo!!!

We are kicking butt on the packing, zooming right along. Check out that countdown. This time next week, I'll be making coffee in Port Credit.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good Morning L-Girl
ALPF

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4175446.stm


BTW
The heat is gone, just in time for your arrival.

James Redekop said...

Just remember when you're making that coffee, the water'll boil at 100, not 212. ;)

laura k said...

The heat is gone, just in time for your arrival.

Yeah! I'm looking forward to a cool breeze off the lake.

the water'll boil at 100, not 212. ;)

LOL So much to learn... :)

mister anchovy said...

Port Credit is a nice little community - part of Mississauga, but at the same time, an autonomous entity, older, separate from the sprawl.

laura k said...

That's one of many reasons we wanted to live there. More frequent GO service and proximity to downtown were some others.

barefoot hiker said...

Wow, it's really amazing. I've been visiting your blog since May, I think, when all this was still kind of off in the distance somewhere. But I look at your clock now and see four days. I can't imagine what that's like; to have the fact of leaving the country you grew up in and lived in your whole life staring you in the face like that. No matter how much you're looking forward to the change and the better social fit, that's still got to be an awesome prospect. Here's hoping it goes well for you when you actually pull the rip cord. :)

Amazing to reflect on the idea that you'll be blogging to us domestically this time next week.

laura k said...

I can't imagine what that's like; to have the fact of leaving the country you grew up in and lived in your whole life staring you in the face like that.

It's almost surreal. That's the only way I can describe it. It doesn't feel quite real.

Here's hoping it goes well for you when you actually pull the rip cord. :)

Thank you so much.

Amazing to reflect on the idea that you'll be blogging to us domestically this time next week.

Rogers Cable willing. ;-)

barefoot hiker said...

It's almost surreal. That's the only way I can describe it. It doesn't feel quite real.

You know, in a weird way, I bet you'd have a more concrete sense of it if you were moving to a country like Japan or India, instead of to what amounts to some Twilight Zone version of the US where the American Revolution never happened and the Queen is still on the money (dun-dun-DUHHHH!!!). Let's face it, you're making the least-profound international move possible for an American. :) There'll be some changes when you're actually here, but I speculate that the similarity of culture and daily life is going to drag out the process of it really setting in for a long time.

barefoot hiker said...

P.S.: Hey, have you given any thought about changing the name of your blog after the move? "We MOVED to Canada" springs to mind, but it's kind of obvious. I was thinking, how about something like "The Late-Late-Loyalist Show"? ;)

laura k said...

to some Twilight Zone version of the US . . . I speculate that the similarity of culture and daily life is going to drag out the process of it really setting in for a long time.

That's so perceptive, you've really hit on what makes it such a weird situation. We're moving to another country, yet the culture - for all the similarities we love to point out - is really very, very similar. It's all of an hour flight from my current and long-time home. I can do the same work, shop in many of the same stores, etc. etc. - all those little daily exchanges will be very similar. Yet overall, there's something very different. But when will we feel that, and how often...?

Thanks for the idea for tomorrow's post. ;-)

P.S.: Hey, have you given any thought about changing the name of your blog after the move?

I've given much thought to it - because Allan/Redsock wants me to add that D at the end of "move". We chatted about it in comments here. (Took me a long time to locate that!)

But I'm really very attached to the wmtc name. Plus I don't want to get our growing readership confused. ;-)

Must go eat sushi now. See you tomorrow!

laura k said...

yet the culture - for all the similarities we love to point out - is really very, very similar

Um, that was supposed to say "for all the differences we love to point out".