A couple of months ago, I was talking with a friend about our bucket lists...specifically where we would like to live. Her's was London and mine was Paris. She wanted a month, I wanted a lifetime. Don't get me wrong, Canada is home and always will be but Paris...well I am connected to that city somehow that I cannot rationally explain. It feels like home...too.
After leaving her place, I started thinking about how living in Paris and the whys and why nots. I realized that "a lifetime" wasn't realistic, at least not in the forseeable future. So how could I make it work sooner rather than later. My first grapple with this was to downsize my plans...go for a year. Wow...what a great thought. I rode that wave for a about a month, trying to figure out the logistics. By the end of that month, I realized that in order to make this work, I was going to have to downsize my plans again. I would go for 2 months...much easier to manage on all fronts. I had initially hoped to go in the early spring...why wait right?! After the last downsizing, I wanted to be realistic and figure out the important things that I wanted to do in the next year.
It goes without saying for most people who know me that one of the more important things in my life is my garden. I know...it may sound lame but it is better than any psychiatric session I could ever pay for. Those who know me well enough, know how much enjoyment I get out of my garden. So, planting my garden this year and seeing it through to harvest was a key factor in deciding my dates for Paris. It would have to be sometime late September/early October. I wanted to live in Paris for more than just 2 months...even if only by few days.
It was decided (at least in my mind)...I would fly off to Paris the last week of September and live there for just over 2 months until the end of November. Now I only had to find the money and oh ya, get the OK from work. I guess I should have mentioned above that part of my plan was to continue to do my job while I was living it Paris. After all, I do work on a virtual team so I didn't think it would be that hard to get my employers buy in. With some departments, I couldn't have been more wrong.
More on that in my next post...
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