Many of you probably either saw this coming or are pretty relieved or both. The consensus was (and is) that I would be pretty miserable in Toronto. They are right, I would be.

In fact, for the last two months I’ve really been off my game and it is directly related to me moving to Toronto.  I was dreading the move.  The winters, the hot summers, being away from the ocean and my BC friends, none of these things were great things in my book.

So last Friday-Saturday I decided I needed to call it all off and make a change for myself that would make me happy.

I did decide to move very quickly.  I also think my gut reaction for why to move (to be closer to kids) was good. I just didn’t give myself time to really think about it.  I decided the course and went off like a shot (yeah no, I never do that, uh huh).

I am very excited about moving to Vancouver.  Very excited.  Even with the now added stress of finding a place to live and coordinating a move around my vacation (no freakin’ way I’m skipping that), I’m pretty calm.

For the obvious questions:

• Yes I’m still with b5.  That isn’t changing.
• Yes, I’ll miss my kids, but I’ll fly to see them and do Skype video

I’m actively looking for a nice 1 br place in the West End or West Van. I now have a loverly set of bunk beds (with a twin and double mattress) available and probably at least one small dress.

My kids’ clothes, for the most part, will get donated because they will have grown out of them by the time they visit me.

That about does it.

Questions from the floor?

Yesterday I dropped off my kids on Salt Spring, for the last time.  They are moving this week to Ontario, so after 8 years, yesterday was the last time I have to set foot on that island.

A touch sad, but sometimes you have to have a few “lasts” to make room for more “firsts”—and I’m going to have a bunch of firsts coming up, let me tell you.

Photo by Tris Hussey

One of the great things about coming back to b5 is that I am able to move this blog to their servers and get onto their ad program.

With this post, larixconsulting.com is going to be retired as my official URL.  Yep, I bought this domain something like five years ago when I started as a solo consultant.  I struggled with the name for a long time.  I haven’t really been pushing Larix Consulting for a while, so this is a good change for me.

If you have my old larixconsulting.com email addy … don’t worry it will still work (it had better cause I have a lot of things tied to it!).  I prefer Gmail now (so same beginning as you have, just gmail.com as the domain), but larixconsulting.com has been on gmail for domains since I moved this blog off blogware last summer.

In a bit I’ll be transferring the DNS of larixconsulting.com to b5 and all requests for larixconsulting.com will go to trishussey.com …

Cross your fingers.  I always hate DNS changes….

Oh and the blog will still be called “A View from the Isle” … good thing I switched that a long time ago!