Hey Shelby,

Ha – always the way eh, bursting into tears when you really don’t want to. If you are anything like me, it’s blatantly obvious when I’ve been crying too – anyway, I’m betting the dentist was too busy peering into your mouth and not your face 🙂

It always helps right, just sounding out what you know is crazy but hearing a good friend or therapist confirm it for you and poke holes in it until you can laugh at yourself again. Sounds like it was a decent session even if you didn’t get time to try out the grief approach.

I totally love that you now have a date in your mind for leaving work, as scary and exciting as that is both at the same time. Makes it real. Cape Town is awesome if you get a chance to make it there, though it’s not always the simplest place to get flights to connect onwards – best bet would be to go with one of the middle east airlines as then you could use either Doha or Dubai as a hub since they connect on Oz-wards. Plus they ( Qatar, Emirates etc ) are much better airlines in terms of comfort – their economy is like BA business class, flat seats apart! Ooops….slipped back into travel talk…

School holiday season is horrible for finding cheap flights, now I remember why we always avoid it!  Thought had lined up a great house-sitting gig in Lisbon but they’ve changed their minds, may still go yet, it’s been on my (long..) list of places I’d like to try out. Fortunately my Mr S is pretty open to wherever I book him into!  If you haven’t already done so – do check out those house-sitting websites, there’s a ton of people wanting sitters in Oz and the upside is they often introduce you to their friends/neighbours incase you need help, so it’s a good way to get to know some people locally.  Other people also recommend staying in hostels rather than hotels – though as my days of sharing are way behind can I suggest a private room with it’s own bathroom…. Again, great for meeting up with other travellers. Haven’t tried it myself as tend to rent an apartment so can cook when we feel like it but friends have and seems good. Double oops……more travel…..!!

And so back to Mr Ex – exactly so – if you think about it – this is the first time ever you have really believed it’s actually over.  The other times were just a waiting game of a kind. So yeah, you are going to be obsessed about it a while yet and rant away here. We’ll do our bit to back up your therapist and tell ya when you are being daft 🙂

Wait……..was that a wallaby I just saw ambling past…cool……