Flights are booked

Well, what would my life be without a little bit of drama to keep things lively! 

Went to speak to the boss at work about a suitable "quitting" day.  He was not a happy chappy and insisted I at least work until the end of the roster.  Hmm...dilemma....I'm happy to work until we go, BUT I technically need to quit to get my annual leave paid out, so I can use that money to book the flights.  Payroll were less helpful, saying even if I quit then and there, they couldn't process it all in time anyway, so I would still have to be waiting until the next pay day in January before I get paid.  Bugger!  So decided to set my quit date at the end of the roster (Jan 9th) and manager has agreed to offer me casual shifts from then until we go.

Add to that, when I emailed the manager for the job waiting for me in Truro about a start date, she replied that we'd sort all that out after Christmas when the HR guy was back.  <sigh>  So I can't even pin down a definite start date in Canada either!

After having my own private little hissy fit - why does it all have to be so difficult - I decided to think things through logically.  I KNOW I need to be there before the end of January to get E enrolled in school in time for Semester 2 (stupid rules the high school has that you can only start at the beginning of a semester).  Logic tells me that the new job will want to start me at the earliest - mid January, and the latest, February.  So worse case scenario would mean that I'm not working for a 2 or 3 weeks.

With that in mind, I decided to go ahead and look at booking tickets around mid-January.  I would have liked to gone sooner, but I decided it was just stupid to pay the extra $1000 or so for the flights when the following week it was much cheaper.

Thanks for a VERY understanding mother who kindly offered to lend me the money for the tickets (or was it a gift??  you know, being christmas and all??  i'm sure she doesn't really expect me to pay it back does she????  LOL  Just kidding mother!!!)  Anyway, thanks to my lovely mother, I have now booked the flights from Brisbane to LA!  WOOHOOO!!!!!!!

Gosh - its official!  We're really going!!!!!!  I have found some really good prices on flights from LA to Las Vegas, and from Vegas to Halifax, so will go ahead and book them on payday.  Then its just the matter of sorting out accommodation, and we're done!

Now all thats left to do is sort out the house.  So many things to sell, so little time to do it in.  Am still tossing up between doing a garage sale, or seeing if a second hand store will come in and make an offer on the lot.  Or just give it all to charity and be done with it.  It's not like its actually worth much....  hahahaha

So thats the latest update.  It's all starting to come together nicely  :)  It's going to be a *great* Christmas and an even more fantastic New Year!