What a Day, What a Week

I've been feeling really antsy about moving country again.   Australia will be my third country in 3 years and it means yet another set of goodbyes, packing up my possessions and moving on.  I'm totally psyched for it though and have been counting down the weeks for what seems like forever (I'm at 3 weeks to go and I'm been counting since 24!).    I'm a bit bummed that time isn't going by quicker (and I feel guilty for this as I know there will come a day when I will regret wishing away a single second) and I'm missing my friend and family like crazy.  However, today was one of those days when a reality check comes in the form of news that slaps you around the head.  In the middle of firing off a whinging email to someone back home about the crap week I've had, I was interrupted by a friend who shared some news about a very challenging personal situation that has the potential to drastically change her own and her family's life.   I was stuck for words and did my best to respond supportively and then spent my entire day thinking about her and wishing that I could just wish away all her worries, and thinking about how out of whack my outlook on the next few weeks is.   I'm spoilt.  So I'm going to work on attitude.  There's some corny quote that goes something along the lines of "Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it".   Yeah, I need to work on that.

In other news...  apparently a UFO was sighted in Tashkent.  

http://www.allnewsweb.com/page6826828.php