a new beginning

Now in Ottawa, a new life, a new beginning. We are bit by bit getting our papers in order getting organized, settling in. The move into our new apartment is next week, with all the work of unpacking this implies, of organizing and deciding how to make it into our new home. The services we have received so far from the different government bodies has gone well, even smoothly one could say. The puppies are fine. On the other hand, Ottawa is an expensive city, right up there with other world cities. Housing is unaffordable, food is very expensive, restaurants overpriced and overtaxed, traffic gets snarled easily, there is a lot of poverty amongst the riches and it seems nearly everyone has a tattoo or piercing or both, a form of social protest?

It is all a matter of getting use to a new life, new habits as Rome fades like the disappearing shore as one travels out to sea. Once the routine of life is established we will be more used to this new groove.