The Adventures of Team Parker

You know how sometimes a chapter of your life closes but you don’t realize it until a long time afterwards, once you’ve had a chance to reflect? Well, yesterday after we moved everything out of our house and locked up for the last time, and drove out of the garage I suddenly realized that a chapter of my life had suddenly and definitively closed. I got slightly emotional but I managed to keep it together.

Then we took Izzy to Ferzana’s house. She dashed under the bed and stayed there looking shellshocked. And that was when I got all weepy. She was never going home again and neither was I. And Sameer and I would never be alone at home together with our crazy-bat cat.

When we got to the in-laws house there were boxes covering every square inch of the bedroom and while we were trying to make some space I was just all lump-in-the-throat and ashen feeling. I went to bed like that, slept badly, and this morning woke up with a “Where am I?” feeling.

Work was like an oasis. A safe place where things were just like normal. My desk, my stuff, my colleagues – even my boss! So today I am very grateful for my work and my routine.

Hopefully things will get better and I’ll start to feel more comfortable and roll with it. As my team leader was saying this morning “Just be flexible.” She was actually speaking about work but I think in light of our non-plans for the next six months it was very good advice.