my busy head

I had a visitor this morning. No it wasn't the little bird - it would seem my photo stalking the other day has scared him off for now. Or perhaps it was my new visitor. There's a new cat in town.
Literally...
He came bounding up to greet me when I opened the patio door and then settled down to enjoy the brief sunshine that escaped through the gap in the clouds that have been plaguing this place for the last few days. Yep, it looks like Summer has gone on vacation again.

My head is all over the place at the moment. Hubby says I need to calm down before I fall out of myself. My erratic state of mind is no doubt due to excitement for the upcoming move. We still don't have the keys, but have been assured they'll be in our hands by the weekend. I wanted to take the day off work on Friday to move, but something has come up to blow that idea out of the water. No matter, as long as we get to move this weekend. I don't think I could wait any longer.

I have lists, and lists of lists, of things to do and stuff to buy. Kettle (most important because I can't possibly move into a house with no way of making coffee), toaster, iron, Hoover, potato peeler... That's on a different list though. There's one for "Big Stuff" and one for "Small Stuff". I have another one for "Stuff I Want Just Because" but that's not written down for fear of Hubby having a nervous breakdown at the amount of Euros he can see waving goodbye.

And when thinking about the move isn't keeping me busy enough, I switch over to thinking about our Big Biking Trip that's planned for August. I really have to come up with a good name for it. Suggestions are welcome although I'm notorious for asking people for suggestions and then not using any of them because, well, I don't know why. I just like to do things my way.
But I appreciate other peoples' input, even if I choose to not take their advice in the long run. I mean, it's good to have as much information as possible before making a decision, right? Uh, ja, I seem to have gotten off the subject here just a tad.

So, the biking trip. I have yet to sit down and mark out our route on the massive road map I bought so everything to do with it so far is very much estimated. And I still need to get a pair of proper biking boots, too... and Yes, I do really need them, it's not just an excuse to buy myself yet another pair of boots, LOL! Apart from the whole safety factor, I have a full jacket and trousers bike outfit (photo's will follow at some point, hang onto your seats) and no boots to go with it. Everything else aside, it would just look silly! You've seen the Bike - we can't have me making a fashion faux pas on a bike like that, now, can we?!

You enjoying this little trip inside my head yet? Welcome to Terriland. Please be patient - our engineers are working on the speed wobble. Some semblance of normalcy is sure to return at some stage.