10 Years!

Last night I celebrated two things - the obvious is that I am finally living in my new space and the other not so obvious is that 10 years ago last night is when I landed in Toronto. I could never have imagined how things would play out but "wow what a journey!" I remember landing and thinking this was it. Going back home was never an option, this is what I needed to do and I was going to make it happen. My send off was really sweet - I had made a ton of friends in Calgary through work, through Outlooks magazine, through I-Dentity which was a queer youth organization I ran for a number of years. I'm posting a flyer that I gave out to friends to come my going away party. I really had no reason to leave accept that I was hungry and felt like I had plateaued with all that I was doing. Having never even been to Toronto I knew that it wasn't going to be easy and that I would really have to start again on so many levels. What I wouldn't of known is all the people who have made the last ten years of my life here in Toronto so great and the process of starting again wasn't all that hard because of them.

As one milestone passes - another is created. I had my housewarming party last night and 16 close friends came over for a night of fun and good times. Having only moved in the day before - the party gave me good motivation to get everything done and not get stuck in the "moving in process". Anyway last night also served as a test as to how loud I could be as my place was full and everyone was talking. There were a few moments where I was concerned but I've got concrete walls all around me so needless to say nobody noticed.

With a few more days off of work - I get to tweak how things are organized here and do some paint touch ups and cleaning. I'm just glad the moving part is done with - I discovered this week that packing isn't as fun as it used to be for me. I did get props from the movers again on how organized everything was. That's 2 moving companies now that have said that. It does bring me a bit of satisfaction I'm not going to lie... I give full credit to my mother. We moved alot when I was growing up...