Podcast 45
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Not sure if the next podcast will be Christmas Eve or Christmas Day or Boxing day but next two will be our “reviews of the year”. First podcast was on 30th December 2005. What we have done, what we achieved, what we have not achieved, what was not expected, the highs and the lows.
Please send us your comments for the next two podcasts. Email us or record audio and send it to us.
We do not have broadband :( Aliant website shows next door has high speed but we don’t. Aliant say its due to available ports not distance.
We may even play some moments from previous podcasts.
We will also look forward to the 12 months ahead and see what we hope to achieve.
> College update – its finished for the year with exams Thursday and Friday. Next semester – different modules, different hours. Integrated Pest Management. Integrated Plant Health. Computing module.
- Driving.
> Work update – Christmas rush, very busy in both. Tiger balm helping my back – done in by bad ergonomics. Day off today! 50 hours next week. Being talked about.
“Only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about”
> Christmas – probably just the 4 of us, although we may have a friend over some of the time, who may otherwise be on her own (and she has a dog). We usually have a quiet Christmas.
- Candle from my grandmother.
- Will probably have some very happy moments but also some sad ones.
- Miss our friends and family. Although we may not have seen them at Christmas, I think it will make us feel a long way away.
AJ doesn’t feel the distance. Matt does miss our past life although job helps a lot.
Matt witters about change, loss, confidence, and making choices. We have long term goals and some of the short term necessities are just that – short term.
AJ misses Radio 4. Matt really misses broadband (and A4 paper)
Bad things
Matt – rude eco Nazis – please be nice to supermarket staff!
AJ – TV series suddenly stopping mid series
Good things
AJ – on holiday for two and a half weeks
Matt – people are nice
New Frappr person - Jonathan from Annapolis Royal.
4 Comments:
Seasons Greetings,
Following your prompting I felt compelled to leave a comment. :)
I'll start of by saying I can sympathize with your frustration over being so tantalizingly close to a high speed connection. I find myself in a similar situation where the connection ends a few kilometers down the road (In fact, that's how I stumbled across your podcast... searching in vain for any new developments...sigh).
Anyway, I want to say thank you for sharing your experiences in relocating to our small corner of the world. It's been an interesting journey so far, and I wish you both the best of luck.
...A bit longwinded, sorry. :)
Looking forward to your recap of the year and thoroughly enjoyed this latest podcast....its good that you are both putting your thoughts and feelings forward...it will really benefit anyone considering making such a big life decision..
I could understand AJ's worries that he might be psychotic or something :) because I too was waiting for homesickness etc to hit me but it never did and we do feel bad for not craving to be back home with family (and we have lovely families) however the times that they have seemed very far away and a few tears have been shed are when something like illness has happened or a wedding or birth and then suddenly you really wish you were closer...
Matt- hope that eco Nazi doesn't hunt you down again.....she sounded like a right one....put your thumb through the cellophane of her meat packaging next time as you pack her stuff without the thin bag and see how she likes all her groceries with a sticky red hue when she unpacks them at the other end :D :D
AJ- Culture shock....know exactly where you are coming from.....not exactly sure what people mean by that :D
C xx
Hello Matt and AJ,Ican'tbelieve its been a year since you started your podcasts and I have ben a fan all this time.
I will sn=end you a specialmessage because I miss you
Hope this is the first of many joyous Christmasses in your new home.
India, Glasgow
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