Q is for Quarantine, S is for Storage

Our cats are theoretically in the same country as us again. I say theoretically because they are in quarantine and we haven't been able to see them yet. After this whole ordeal, we do NOT recommend relocating your pets from the US to Australia. As much as we love our pets, it has been a very stressful and expensive pain. It has cost us about as much to relocate the cats as it has for us to relocate (including furnishing a new apartment and plane tickets). We may change our minds once they are actually in our home and we can say it was all worth it. We probably will. We miss them! In 10 days we will be reunited.

One positive thing about picking up and moving to another country is that you're really forced to downsize and get rid of anything unnecessary, and even some things you like. It's funny, in our old apartment at least once a week I would get really annoyed about how little storage space we had. We had to get creative and store our large plastic Christmas tree base under our papazan chair because they were both round and it could kind of blend in. Now that we're here in an even smaller apartment, I don't really have to do stuff like that because we simply have less stuff accumulated. That may change once we have the cats and have big cat carriers to store, but at least so far we've had enough space without any problem; the slight exception being our bikes parked in the stairwell, but so far that hasn't been a problem.

TGIF.