Moving onwards in Life from the bottom of the world.

The continual poor access to Open Diary has finally made me look elsewhere... here I am! 14 yrs at one blog site makes it hard to move on but if I want to keep blogging then I need somewhere that will actually let me do this. Life has been pretty good on the whole. The only gripe I have at the moment is the traffic delays as our sewerage and water systems are repaired after our massive earthquakes 2 yrs ago. Our roads are more bumpy than after the earthquakes as they have been ripped open and a bandaid placed on top as such to keep them functional. I go through 5 different detours just to get to work. It is road closed after road closed..drives me crazy! One of the joys of living in the east of Christchurch is the extensive damage is now being fixed and it's such a massive job, roads are closed for months. My home repairs were finished a year ago thank goodness. There is a house which is only 5 down the road from mine and it is being demolished. It is weird seeing a house so close get pulled down as the damage was so bad it's not economically repairable. It's funny how Sept 2010 all our lives changed after our 7.1 earthquake and we all wished the aftershocks would stop as they were so terrifying. Then the Feb 2011 one which resulted in loss of life and those aftershocks were even more violent as they were under our homes and not out country. Now it's 2013 and so many people, me included miss that little jolt. It was almost like a security blanket, you knew if you got a little shake now and then, the chances of a big one lessened. We haven't had a big one in months, which is great but you still stop and wonder if things are building up again. A house 3 down from me is having it's driveway ripped up and breaking that concrete made my house creak and shake like an aftershock was coming. I had to keep telling myself it was just the digger. Pre 2010 I wouldn't have thought anything of it, now you instantly think what if. I know where all the exits are at all times, be it at home, in the shops or in a building. I plan where I park...if I can even drive down that road! GPS is no good so often as it doesn't show the continual detours which spring up overnight. I may moan but in reality I still love this city and will never leave. I have changed as has my family and friends but what's another challenge thrown our way, it is only temporary in the grand scheme of things and for all the destruction, there will be new beginnings.