We leave in three days. We will fly from Austin, TX to Fort Lauderdale, FL to pick up our boat. OUR boat. Eeeekk!! It is actually happening! And now that we are this close, I’m crapping my pants.
We have essentially been “buying a boat” for almost three months now… a total beating for sure… everything is just a little shady… nothing actually happens when it is supposed to happen… and everyone else (besides us) seems to think that is perfectly fine. I’m really trying to learn how to go with the flow; this boat-buying process has tested my limits.
But here we are… three days away. We are 100% sure that there is NO WAY everything will come together this week in an orderly fashion. But how do we prepare ourselves for the exact hiccup that will cause the whole transaction to fail?
At least five times in the last three months, Matt has said “just f— it.” Oh, the contract isn’t valid? Oh, we have to cancel our flight to the survey? Oh, you haven’t looked for the document we’ve been asking about for the last two weeks? Oh, the boat won’t be delivered in time? The last time (last week), I actually texted back, “I have stopped getting mad because by tomorrow everything will somehow miraculously come together again.” (And it did.) And there it was… I had actually trained myself to go with the flow.
So even when something drastic goes wrong next week while we are in Florida, I’m banking on the knowledge that it is still happening. We ARE buying a boat. Maybe not on our timeline. But apparently that’s how this whole thing works.
We are excited beyond words. Although Matt has seen our boat, I feel like I’m bursting with anticipation to meet her. I’m giddy and looking forward to making her our home. I know the next 11 months are going to fly by. The fact that we are less than a year away from moving aboard is both way too soon and forever away.
Now I need to go train myself to go with the cash flow. Because holy crap. I might need to go change my pants again.
Congratulations (crap and all!)!! It’s truly wonderful to read of a couple setting an ambitious goal and achieving it! Very inspirational. My husband and I are hoping to implement a 3-Year Plan of our own (okay, he keeps getting confused and calling it a 5-Year Plan, but I just ignore that). Just like at the beginning of your journey, we’re ready to do it NOW, so we must live vicariously through you until we’re ready to make our own announcement (guess I’d better start a blog!). Anyway, I wish you two fair winds and happy travels!
Start a blog! It is fun to go back and read and remember… Thanks for the good wishes… Let me know when you are getting closer! We would love to follow your journey.