Well it got busy

Could you tell it got a bit busy for us? We are back in Ontario now - and my house is still (2 weeks later) filled with boxes. Any sane person would have taken a week off and tended to these things, but clearly I am not sane.

So, in order...

We packed up the Somerville place, got the u-haul, packed up all the stuff from our storage and apt into the u-haul and set out. We spent about 6 hrs driving into NY and then spent a day at Water Safari park (near Old Forge, or something like that) and then drove the next day to the border, where the very nice guard was clearly impressed with our typed list of our worldly possessions and waved us through. So we got to our Kingston home around 10:30am on August 1.

We (meaning, mostly my husband and the hired help) unloaded the truck, and did two trips to unload everything from our Kingston storage location. We spent Monday unpacking (meaning, mostly me and hubby - the kids just hid from the chaos...) and then Tues, the adults went to work and the kids went to camp.

We're still unpacking.

As for work, I thought I was coming back to a full-time permanent position and a seat at the decision-making table, but I'm coming back to more contract hours (though an actual office that's not in my basement) and a new reporting structure so I'm cut off from all those upper-level discussions and decisions. Oh, and more students and more complex situations than I knew of. Deciding if I should a) quit, b) have a nervous breakdown or c) just deal with it, which is what I typically do. And I wonder why no one gets to see me at my best...

Currently, as I type this, I'm on the train to Toronto for a series of promising meetings on Monday. If they work out, maybe (a) will be more of an option.

In other news, hubby is in a potential strike position and the boys have two more weeks of summer camp left. The last week of August, hubby is taking vacation (assuming he has a job to take vacation from) and will be at the cottage with the boys. I will stay in the city working. And you know, that just might be enough of a vacation for me... I suspect I will do a lot of unpacking...