Happy Birthday! x 2

Happy birthday to missmurchison and speakr2customrs! I hope you both have lovely days and that it is not as grey and rainy where you are as it is here!

On Peterborough

I guess that last post was a little enigmatic, wasn't it? I had the interview for the Peterborough job (that sounds like it should be either a movie title or a Firefly episode) a couple of weeks ago and thought I had a decent chance of getting it. Getting the call yesterday turned me from a Potential to a Slayer, so to speak, so I was feeling a little overwhelmed when I posted. I suspect that I'll be experiencing that feeling a lot in the coming weeks. I've been living in Ottawa for ten years now, which is pretty much the longest I've lived anywhere, so digging me out of my rut will take some doing.

I've given notice at work--my last day there is October 20. My tentative start date in Peterborough is November 13, which should give me time to move, unpack, etc. I'll probably find an apartment to rent there for the first six months, at least. As my sister advised me, it's probably better to get used to sharing the same city with Jim before trying to share the same house with him (and the Jimlets).

There are ups and downs to the decision, of course. Some of the downs include: moving farther away from my parents, sister, brother-in-law, and other extended family members (this is, of course, the biggest of the downs); taking a cut in salary (I won't exactly be living in poverty, but salaries outside of Ottawa and Toronto just can't match those within them); leaving my choir behind; etc., etc. The ups include: being closer to Jim (that three-hour drive up and down Highway 7 is getting really boring); being closer to other friends that live in Peterborough; being closer to poshcat's in-laws, which might occasionally result in being closer to poshcat :-) ; a job that is less data-crunching and more writing, which is what I am better at; and being closer to friends (Hi P!) in the Toronto area (Peterborough is a little over an hour outside of Toronto). Yes, some of those Toronto friends are LJ friends. And, yes, they did actually factor into my decision.

So, scary? Exciting? Panic-inducing?

All of the above.

Sooo much to do in the next month...