18 months in and settled!
May 3rd 2005 | 6:38 am
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Re: 18 months in and settled!
Hi there pollyanna
Am sending you some karma just to help you get past the bad bits. Hang in there I am sure it will just go from strength to strength. It is also good for us still waiting to get there to realise that it isn't utopia and that we have to take the good with the bad and be strong.
Take care
Sarah & Dave
Am sending you some karma just to help you get past the bad bits. Hang in there I am sure it will just go from strength to strength. It is also good for us still waiting to get there to realise that it isn't utopia and that we have to take the good with the bad and be strong.
Take care
Sarah & Dave
May 3rd 2005 | 6:42 am
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Re: 18 months in and settled!
So glad you posted this Polly, as I have followed your trials and tribulations for some time now, and it seemed at times that you were dealing with way more hassle than anyone deserves.
Now that you've moved, your health's improving, you've got all your stuff unpacked at last and you're feeling more settled, I very much hope that you can enjoy your new life at last!
Here's to you Polly; beer and happy life type-karma sent!
Cheers, and you take care now y'hear?
Now that you've moved, your health's improving, you've got all your stuff unpacked at last and you're feeling more settled, I very much hope that you can enjoy your new life at last!
Here's to you Polly; beer and happy life type-karma sent!
Cheers, and you take care now y'hear?
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May 3rd 2005 | 7:43 am
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Re: 18 months in and settled!
Well done Pollyana on surviving 18 months in a new country without giving up. So pleased that everything is now working out for you and that you love your new home and job. Here's to many years of happiness in Australia for you and your bloke.
best wishes
Blossom
Nice Karma on its way to you.
best wishes
Blossom
Nice Karma on its way to you.
May 3rd 2005 | 7:54 am
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Re: 18 months in and settled!
Hi Polly
Glad to hear you have started to settle. I should imagine it is really hard to adjust to a complete new way of life and I think a good 2 years is a fair try. I think having a new place that you can call your own will make a great deal of difference.
Good luck to you both and have a drink for me! .
Irene
Glad to hear you have started to settle. I should imagine it is really hard to adjust to a complete new way of life and I think a good 2 years is a fair try. I think having a new place that you can call your own will make a great deal of difference.
Good luck to you both and have a drink for me!
. Irene
May 3rd 2005 | 8:00 am
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Re: 18 months in and settled!
Well done, Polly. The house sounds really fab & I hope you the bloke & assorted teddies will all be very happy there! 
Cheers
Anya.
Cheers
Anya.
May 3rd 2005 | 9:06 am
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Re: 18 months in and settled!
Originally Posted by Pollyana
I've just realised I've been here 18 months! Scary thought. 
Actually it was 18 months on May 2nd, but someone sent me some horrible "karma" that day and put me off posting. 
Still, I've bounced back, opened another wine bottle and thought I'd treat you to a few observations.
I'm not going to go back over the whole 18 months as most of it is already on the site somewhere else. What I will say is this - till last month, since I got here we have been living in The Bloke's unit - never felt like 'mine', or 'ours', and I think thats a reason I have found it so hard to settle. It was dark, dusty, and didn't feel like home. People on the site have often said - not just to me - 'if you aren't happy, change things'. Well, we have changed things, and we always intended to, but it takes time and money, thats why it took so long. I spent a long time thinking that maybe I wasn't destined to be here - and even felt that the country hated me.
So now I feel like I am starting my new life all over again. We are renting a beautiful house in Brisbane's north, lovely views, nice veranda and garden, so much space, and lovely breezes as its on a hill facing the bay, so gets away from the heat of the city. My health is improving (please god may that continue), and I really feel like we have been given a second chance. All my stuff from the UK is finally unpacked, and it feels like a "home" not just a house. I am interested in life again, and am remembering all the reasons why I loved Australia when I first came here.
I suppose what I want to get across is this - even if it takes time, it can get better, things can improve. It takes time to settle, it takes time to feel "at home". Even though I still miss family and friends, and emails tonight from my nieces can still raise a tear, I do now feel that perhaps I do belong here, and maybe Australia doesn't hate me after all.
The Bloke has put up with a lot, but he also thinks that we have really fallen on our feet with our new home, and things might be looking up at last
Even the teddy bears approve!!
Actually it was 18 months on May 2nd, but someone sent me some horrible "karma" that day and put me off posting. Still, I've bounced back, opened another wine bottle and thought I'd treat you to a few observations. I'm not going to go back over the whole 18 months as most of it is already on the site somewhere else. What I will say is this - till last month, since I got here we have been living in The Bloke's unit - never felt like 'mine', or 'ours', and I think thats a reason I have found it so hard to settle. It was dark, dusty, and didn't feel like home. People on the site have often said - not just to me - 'if you aren't happy, change things'. Well, we have changed things, and we always intended to, but it takes time and money, thats why it took so long. I spent a long time thinking that maybe I wasn't destined to be here - and even felt that the country hated me.
So now I feel like I am starting my new life all over again. We are renting a beautiful house in Brisbane's north, lovely views, nice veranda and garden, so much space, and lovely breezes as its on a hill facing the bay, so gets away from the heat of the city. My health is improving (please god may that continue), and I really feel like we have been given a second chance. All my stuff from the UK is finally unpacked, and it feels like a "home" not just a house. I am interested in life again, and am remembering all the reasons why I loved Australia when I first came here.
I suppose what I want to get across is this - even if it takes time, it can get better, things can improve. It takes time to settle, it takes time to feel "at home". Even though I still miss family and friends, and emails tonight from my nieces can still raise a tear, I do now feel that perhaps I do belong here, and maybe Australia doesn't hate me after all.
The Bloke has put up with a lot, but he also thinks that we have really fallen on our feet with our new home, and things might be looking up at last
Even the teddy bears approve!!
I am sure it does take time and if things are not how you want them to be it can be very unsettling where you live from day to day.
May the good feelings continue.
Dreamaway.
May 3rd 2005 | 9:36 am
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Re: 18 months in and settled!
Glad you have settled into ur new home and I hope your health continues to improve
We cant wait till our new home is built and we move out of this rental House!!!!
We cant wait till our new home is built and we move out of this rental House!!!!
May 3rd 2005 | 9:43 am
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Re: 18 months in and settled!
Thanks for all the good wishes guys - and thanks for all this karma!! Well outdid the nasty one I got 
Heres to the next 18 months
Heres to the next 18 months
May 3rd 2005 | 9:52 am
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Re: 18 months in and settled!
Hi Polly
Hope things carry on gettin better and better for you and the bloke.
Hey just thikn the next step will be gettin you Australian citizenship
Take care of yourself hun and see you at the drinking club, WHEN we get there
Ang
Hope things carry on gettin better and better for you and the bloke.
Hey just thikn the next step will be gettin you Australian citizenship
Take care of yourself hun and see you at the drinking club, WHEN we get there
Ang
May 3rd 2005 | 10:12 am
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Re: 18 months in and settled!
Hello polly.
Sorry we have not be online.
Good luck with the next 18 months.
Hope you are settled down now.
We are getting there.
Paul has a good job and the kids are seting down but me i have my up and downs.
Well have to send you a pm about us so far.
you take care
Ann Marie Paul cally and shannon
Sorry we have not be online.
Good luck with the next 18 months.
Hope you are settled down now.
We are getting there.
Paul has a good job and the kids are seting down but me i have my up and downs.
Well have to send you a pm about us so far.
you take care
Ann Marie Paul cally and shannon
May 3rd 2005 | 10:43 am
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Re: 18 months in and settled!
Couple of answers - Teresa (Swifts) - I think the teddies got at the Baileys, but then they've had a tough time with all this moving! Thats why I let them move in first and watch while the boxes arrived around them!
Helen - the firefighters were OK, but not many hunks around, so I moved across the corridor and now work for the Counter Disaster people - thats the admin side of the SES volunteers. Good job, good people!
Ann Marie - you will have to try and come up for another night out with the girls - I think there is someone coming up from the Gold Coast for the next one on the 28th, maybe you could get together. I'll find the thread and get it back to the top
Helen - the firefighters were OK, but not many hunks around, so I moved across the corridor and now work for the Counter Disaster people - thats the admin side of the SES volunteers. Good job, good people!
Ann Marie - you will have to try and come up for another night out with the girls - I think there is someone coming up from the Gold Coast for the next one on the 28th, maybe you could get together. I'll find the thread and get it back to the top
May 3rd 2005 | 11:58 am
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Re: 18 months in and settled!
Polly, I'm so happy that things are starting to 'fit' for you. You've worked so hard at this, you deserve it.
You give me hope that perhaps, one day, the same will happen for me.
Good karma coming....xxx
You give me hope that perhaps, one day, the same will happen for me.
Good karma coming....xxx
May 3rd 2005 | 9:40 pm
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Re: 18 months in and settled!
hiya Poll
glad to hear things are coming together for you!
tried posting yesterday but having pootah problems!!
hope to see you soon,
sue xx
glad to hear things are coming together for you!
tried posting yesterday but having pootah problems!!
hope to see you soon,
sue xx
May 3rd 2005 | 9:52 pm
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Re: 18 months in and settled!
Good to hear you're feeling more settled Poll........I hope I feel the same when I've been here as long...
Really looking forward to the 28th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait to meet you and all the other gals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Woo hoo!!!
Really looking forward to the 28th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait to meet you and all the other gals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Woo hoo!!!
May 3rd 2005 | 9:59 pm
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Re: 18 months in and settled!
Congratulations Polly & long may the benefits continue
Donna.
Donna.
