Craving routine.

I’ve been holding my breath and hoping a lot lately which has made blogging a little bit secondary to what has been going on in my head – hence, no post for almost two weeks, and this ain’t gonna be a long one. I’m about to run off and rent a car, drive to the Fraser Valley and then home again this evening – this after just returning last night from a two day trip to Campbell River and Courtenay. Hell, we’re three days outta holidays and I’m already tired. And a little fretful.

This is the last week of the crazy driving-around-the-province ratification vote schedule I have been on – which I will be well glad to see the back of. Meetings continue for the next two weeks after, but all the ones I have to attend are in downtown Vancouver a short walk away from my workplace. This means I can go back to the gym, back to a more or less regular working schedule, back to the routine I love so much. And by this, I am not sarcastic, routine keeps me grounded and healthy – keeps my most paranoid thoughts at bay.

So I am wishing for a return to it about now as it seems quite a long time since I’ve just had a nice, regular pattern to my days that allows for working out, blogging, and other diversions.

In other tensions, I have been waiting for Brian’s house sale to close which is supposed to happen this Friday, and peripherally worrying about the whole thing falling through because I just can’t help it. (His post from yesterday involves a bit more description on what’s been going on.) According to our realtor, everything really is going fine and a small hitch in the financing on their side has been fixed so they can move ahead with the purchase. But still, even a week seems like too long to have the subjects removed when you are waiting for that to happen. Particularly when there is the perfect house waiting for us to go have the subjects removed on next week. Damn, I’m going to be breathing a lot easier when deposits on both sales are paid in full and signed off.

On the plus side, our financing is totally arranged, including the deposit – so as soon as Brian’s house closes and we get our new house inspected we are good to go. That feels pretty good, as does the fact we will be clearing off all our debts upon the sale of Brian’s house in order to bring ourselves down to just having a mortgage and no other high-interest credit in our lives. I think if I was one to make new year’s resolutions, mine for 2009 would include kicking the credit card habit and all those unnecessary interest payments. In the last year I have managed to pay off and cancel two separate cards with this in mind, it would be nice to keep my remaining card down at a zero balance with the exception of traveling costs.

In any case, all things going as planned, we will be moving April 16, 2009 – and by the end of next week I will know that for sure and can stop the fluttering nerves just under the surface right now. Exciting, yes. A little nerve-wracking though in the wait.