It’s Been a Year

It’s been more than a year, but it’s been a year. A year ago, I was in Rose and Crown in EPCOT after finishing a runDisney race and Darren got the call. The job was his. Holy shit, we are moving almost 9000 miles. He had to leave for Australia the next day. Ok, it’s ok. Our flight back to California was in 2 days but leaving me with corn old fashions, tipsy ducks and runDisney friends, all good. Here’s my first HA!

Melbourne was the new job. Darren started going for 2 weeks, travelling back for a week and going back to Melbourne (yes, business class and he sleeps on planes – not sure I even have enough swear words in vocabulary for my dismay of his plane sleep abilities). For me, how was I leaving my boys that were only a short plane trip away and my pumpkin who I brought flowers to every week? Seriously, fuck.

March. Ok, I can do this. Take a chance, get on that 16 hour flight to find a place to live in Melbourne, keep telling myself my boys will be ok and I’ll always have Sam with me.

Holy shit, I love Melbourne. It’s beautiful, the people are so friendly, it was my 3 favorite cities in one and everything walking or a tram ride. Ok my boys, no order here, only alphabetical, a casino, markets and a river all in one. Found an amazing apartment on the Yarra, with a view/a 5 minute walk to the Crown Casino and walking distance to the markets. Seriously, really my do I get to experience and live this. Second HA!

April, sign 2 year lease in our names. Buy furniture. Waiting for Visa. Darren travelling back and forth.

May, Darren there, furniture deliveries. Me, holy fuck, I need to get things organized here, what if there is a fire, are the boys ok, what insurance do we have now, on and on and on (yes I know added one too many on)

June, one way flights with me kinda thankful that Darren never threw our honeymoon luggage away because it was now being used to take what I (maybe we) needed from here.

22 hours after one way flight, which is 4:30 AM Melbourne time, Darren is getting work calls. Shit you not, sum up “Darren, we need you back in California.” And here is third HA and why it’s been a year.

November, one way flights back.

For most of those months, I was there and he was here. I loved it there. It took so much of the little I had left of me to be there, and Darren will admit that it was the best year of his life and one of the worst of mine. Couple weeks ago I finally got electricity out of my name in an apartment that I loved 9000 miles away.

It’s been a year, it’s been a year.