To Ottawa!
Mar. 22nd, 2007 12:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hells_half_acreLast night I was about half-way through a second episode of Ranma, when the phone rang. The phone rings so seldom around here, that I just stared at it for a moment until I remembered that I'm supposed to answer it. It was around 1:30am, and I figured that the only people who would call at that time would be wrong numbers or Gabriel.
It was the latter, as soon as I answer he said, "Alix. Good, you are still awake," and then, as if I hadn't heard from him in years he continued, "It's Gabe. It's GABE!" and I laughed, because he said it as if I should be excited, as if he was long-lost and hadn't just left for work three hours before.
Of course, Gabe never calls home, so it had to be important. And it was...the company is dropping the contract he's on at the end of the month, which means he'll be out of a job.
"So, I figured now would be a good time to discuss options" Gabe said, and I realised that he meant RIGHT NOW! Even though it was 1:30am and I had just been completely caught off guard. After about ten minutes though, we had discussed and decided everything. It wasn't that hard a decision, which to me, indicates that it's the right one.
Which means, my dear readers, that I will be moving to Ottawa sometime in April. I'm not sure when yet, but sometime. We'll be staying with my mum until we get ourselves sorted, and then hopefully we'll get jobs and our own place again, and live happily until Gabe goes back to China or I go to Germany or we both get sick of each other.
It's a good decision, because for the first time in the past two months Gabe and I were actually happy while we discussed the future.
"Well, we did just get settled here, and now we are picking up and moving again..." I trailed off.
"True, but I'm used to it," he said dismissively, and then laughed, "look who I'm talking to! You haven't stuck around anywhere for very long either in the past few years."
"Right, I said, I'm getting pretty used to it too" We both laughed, because he was right and we both know we prefer things this way.
There's that strange sense of euphoria we both get when everything suddenly changes. It's the feeling of being completely free. It's the feeling of having the world at your fingertips. It's the feeling that, once again, anything is possible. Where most people would feel lost, Gabe and I feel most at home. There's an Irish saying "Not all who wander are lost," actually, I would go a step farther and say that some wanderers are only lost when they stop wandering.
It was the latter, as soon as I answer he said, "Alix. Good, you are still awake," and then, as if I hadn't heard from him in years he continued, "It's Gabe. It's GABE!" and I laughed, because he said it as if I should be excited, as if he was long-lost and hadn't just left for work three hours before.
Of course, Gabe never calls home, so it had to be important. And it was...the company is dropping the contract he's on at the end of the month, which means he'll be out of a job.
"So, I figured now would be a good time to discuss options" Gabe said, and I realised that he meant RIGHT NOW! Even though it was 1:30am and I had just been completely caught off guard. After about ten minutes though, we had discussed and decided everything. It wasn't that hard a decision, which to me, indicates that it's the right one.
Which means, my dear readers, that I will be moving to Ottawa sometime in April. I'm not sure when yet, but sometime. We'll be staying with my mum until we get ourselves sorted, and then hopefully we'll get jobs and our own place again, and live happily until Gabe goes back to China or I go to Germany or we both get sick of each other.
It's a good decision, because for the first time in the past two months Gabe and I were actually happy while we discussed the future.
"Well, we did just get settled here, and now we are picking up and moving again..." I trailed off.
"True, but I'm used to it," he said dismissively, and then laughed, "look who I'm talking to! You haven't stuck around anywhere for very long either in the past few years."
"Right, I said, I'm getting pretty used to it too" We both laughed, because he was right and we both know we prefer things this way.
There's that strange sense of euphoria we both get when everything suddenly changes. It's the feeling of being completely free. It's the feeling of having the world at your fingertips. It's the feeling that, once again, anything is possible. Where most people would feel lost, Gabe and I feel most at home. There's an Irish saying "Not all who wander are lost," actually, I would go a step farther and say that some wanderers are only lost when they stop wandering.
