It Must Be Done (therefore I must do it)!

For those of you who've been following me and my life via this blog for a while now (oh you sweet ones you!), you are familiar with my, uh, 'travel anxiety'. I have attempted to process this anxiety of mine via writing several times here now... And to some avail...

It is a somewhat perplexing phenomenon, even to me, this anxious/nauseaus feeling I have throughout the days and nights leading up to my departure, despite the fact that I truly love to travel! Anyhow, it is what it is, and I do what I can to ease it. One tactic that I've found particularly useful is getting myself packed and ready quite far in advance of my travels, so that I'm not procrastinating my responsibilities and prolonging the anxiety. This sort of helps. I also tend to write myself motivational messages and post them around my room. Oh, okay, I do this even when I'm not preparing to leave! At the end of my summer in St Louis I was quite a mess and had all sorts of lists and notes posted up for myself. My friend Jon found this quite entertaining. He and I are still in touch and he asked me to take some pictures of my current lists and post them for him to see, so Jon my dear, these are for you:

Above: My calendar for the last few weeks as well as my to-do lists, checkboxes and all!
And below: an embarrassingly closer look at my lists!

Well, I'm not sure if it's clear or not, but I do actually have most of these boxes checked off now! Tomorrow will be my last day in Toronto before I hop on yet another plane and fly on Monday morning to Florida, where I will be working and living for the next four months. Ultimately I am really looking forward to this next adventure of mine, for many reasons, and thankfully I am able to remember that despite the slight fog of my current 'departure anxiety'! Tomorrow will be a good last day in the city for me, I hope... It will be spent mostly at home, or close to home, I think. I will go to one last yoga class in the morning, and then home to do a final load of laundry and the final pack of all (I call all suitcase packings - and I do do several! - up until this final pack, "pre-packs", oh my) and then hopefully a relaxing evening at home with my roomies.

Then bright and early on Monday morning I will be Florida bound! It will surely be an interesting time, so I promise to try and blog more often than I managed to during my last tour (but it was SUCH a whirlwind!).

As I prepare myself for my next adventure, I draw comfort from the safety and security that I feel from all of my loving relationships... friends, family, etc... past, present & future... I carry each of you with me everywhere that I go!

*NAMASTE*