29 Mar. 11
We haven’t managed to get down to the boat in a while but last weekend was three days long so we managed to sneak off from work for the four week days and took the long road down to the boat. Its seems to be in our destiny to battle roaches and have electrical problems every time we arrive. This time the plug on the walk on melted and thus the fridges again had to be disinfected and cleaned.
The Saturday night before we left we had our ‘bon voyage’ bash at our house and invited all our friends and relatives around to say goodbye. Even though we are not leaving in the next three months there is just so much going on and things to get completed that we may not find time to get around to seeing all of them again, so we figured that by inviting them all around at the same time we could say goodbye to everyone at the same time.
Thanks to all you guys that came to the bash, at least we won’t starve with all the great presents of tin food and other provisions that you brought.
11 Apr. 11
Just too much going on at the moment and finding all the changes quite daunting. We have been busy negotiating with the buyers of our business and trying to make sure that the transition runs as smooth as possible. The difficulties in my mind are that I have to accept that I will no longer have a job and thus no income. This is tough and I am petrified. Other influences have been that some of my friends seem to have a problem coping with our decision and have decided that they no longer want to remain our friends. This too has been hard to deal with. I am not sure if anyone that has made a choice like this has had similar experiences with their friends but I don’t believe I am the only person on earth to have this happen. Perhaps I wasn’t a good enough friend anyway and this was the perfect opportunity to find an excuse to end the friendship. Who knows.
