First I spent hectic two weeks packing all my stuff in Joensuu - and learnt it's surprisingly lot of work after living in one place for 6 years (you wouldn't believe all the junk I found in my storage unit!). Add all the office stuff, my car breaking down, all the necessary appointments and finding a suitable moving company, and you'll get the picture. Just in time I got everything done, and last Sunday I drove my (now fixed) car into my new apartment in Bonehill, South Karelia.
I don't mean to whine, but seriously - while I was driving, I was thinking would it be so terrible if something in my moving would have worked out smoothly - first the car broke down, and once I got it fixed, the weather on Sunday was HORRIBLE. Seriously. I can honestly say that I'm a decent driver, and usually I love driving, especially alone. But last Sunday was the worst roadtrip ever, the weather was absolutely horrible - so fucking windy and snowing... Yeah: usually I love driving, but last Sunday I was simply happy to get in South Karelia in one piece!
Okay... I left Joensuu behind and arrived in Bonehill on Sunday. On Monday I spent all day driving my stuff from my parents' place into my new apartment, and in the evening the moving company brought the rest of my stuff from Joensuu. When I went to sleep around midnight on Monday, I had all my stuff inside my new home - one goal achieved.
The whole Tuesday I spend UNpacking my stuff, organizing everything into closets and so on. Today I drove to Lappeenranta to meet a dear friend, and started packing for my Xmas vacation once I got home. Holy crap it feels like for the last month my life has been just packing and unpacking, I'M SICK OF IT!! I also paid a way too many bills, made a few phonecalls and stressed about what I might have forgotten...
Well, I'm not sure if all this sounds like much when you read it, but let me tell you - I'm on the edge of a nervous breakdown by now! I think I didn't realize how much work this moving thing actually is. Especially because I have done it ALL by myself - all the way from finding an apartment to getting my stuff here. It hasn't been easy, and more than once I've felt like it would have been so much easier just to give up. Buuuut I didn't, I made it through, and I'm pretty damn proud of myself<3
Tomorrow morning I'm off for Helsinki, where I'll spend a few days; meeting some friends etc. On Saturday I'll fly to Switzerland -- CAN'T WAIT! In case you missed it, I'm going to spend Xmas and New Year with my US roadtrip friend Caroline. It will be aaaaawesome. Leave all this stress behind and simply enjoy my life a bit. I know I've more than deserved it. It feels like I've been constantly running out of time the whole month, but tomorrow it will be over. Thank God! No more stress, no more schedules, no more sleepless nights... it will be heavenly.
And then... then it will be 2013. If last year I felt like I didn't want to let the old year go, this year it's the opposite - I can't wait to get rid of 2012. I'll write the official New Year blog later, but I'm already ready to say this year SUCKED and I can't wait to leave it all behind. On the other hand, I have high hopes for 2013, it will all be so NEW: new year, new apartment, new direction for my life... maybe even a little bit whole new me, who knows.
Anyway, I just wanted to write something down about this horrible December, just to remind myself I MADE IT THROUGH. Now it's time to sit back, relax & enjoy my Xmas vacation. I'm sure it will be wonderful. I'm so happy to leave Finland for a while, especially since it's absolutely fucking freezing in here right now! Around -22*C at the moment, forecast says around -30*C by Christmas eve...
God bless (and a few Google photos of Switzerland just to get myself into the mood)
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