A Fond Goodbye to the Adrenaline Pumping Through My Veins
I spent last night reading my Lonely Planet Central America Guidebook and getting happy. I’ve been a gigantic ball of stress for the past week or so, thinking about all of the stuff that has to get done before we go, fretting about how we have to tie up all the loose ends of our life in San Francisco: sell our stuff, quit our jobs, break our lease, say goodbye to our friends. But in the midst of all that stress (and probably as a result of the adrenaline that the stress was pumping through my veins) — I got a lot of that stuff done. We’ve talked to the landlord and he’s giving us our security deposit, even though we’re breaking our lease. We’ve already sold two pieces of furniture (making $30 on a trunk that I got at a tag sale for $10). I’ve already quit my job; Megan’s getting ready to quit her’s. I’ve bought Loki (the cat) a kennel in which she will travel across the country into the loving arms of my mother/grandmother. It’s getting done. In fact, a lot of it has gotten done already. And sitting back last night and reading about where we’re going to be, what we’ll be seeing, what we’ll be doing, just made me so relaxed — which, as Megan will attest to, was not a state I had been in for a while.
And it’s good that I finally let myself relax — because it’s the last day of my vacation. Tomorrow morning I start my new job at 8:15am. I’ll be nannying for a one year old little girl named Eva for the next two days. Next week I’ll be nannying for a 2 year old and a 4 year old. And after that I’ll (hopefully, if things go well tomorrow) be back nannying for Eva until we leave on October first. Here’s to hoping that I figure out what to do with kids under the age of 11.
-Sarah
Tags: Central America, Children, Nannying, Preparations, South America, Travel
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