So silver it's almost blinding

I really did think I was going to be spending a relaxing summer with barbecues as the only item on my agenda and then life handed us a veritable poop sandwich.
All that stuff we waited 10 weeks to have shipped from the UK to Toronto was lost in a flood when the sewers backed up and drowned half of all of our belongings.
We had no choice but to find somewhere else to stay.
For two weeks G and I lived in a hotel, with nothing but a bed to sit on to watch tv and one uncomfortable desk chair that neither of us fought over.
We waited.
Impatiently.
But the damage was so extensive the house needed to be gutted.

So we moved all of our remaining stuff to one safe corner of the dining room and covered everything with sheets to keep the dust off.
We locked up the apartment, unsure when we'd be back.

After two weeks we couldn't take the small space of the hotel room anymore so we moved ourselves to a temporary one bedroom apartment. Despite the ridiculous cost to live there the smell of the couch did not agree with me at all, so I doused it with 3 bottles of Febreeze only to have to start all over again when the smell returned after only a week.
We ate out far too often.
We sighed even more.

Two months into it just when we were hoping to move back home, we found out the workers need another month yet to finish the repairs. Maybe more.
So we decided to jump into the real estate game and look at buying a house.
Seventeen houses later we got lucky and found a house that stole our hearts.
We stressed about it. The timing was off.
But we bought it anyway.
We agreed on a short closing with the sellers and moved in 2 weeks later.
Things were looking up.
And then our realtor connected me with his girlfriend who works for a great company and she got me a great new job.

You might think that losing half of your stuff to 3 feet of sewage water is a pretty horrible thing, and it is, but do I wish it had never happened to me?
Not for a second.
I didn't know that a silver lining could be so freaking silver.
It's so silver it's almost blinding.

So thanks to all of you who left me comments and gave me your support and your sympathy. This will always be remembered by G and I as "the summer that sucked" but the end result was well worth it.

I have to say that I'm happy to be back.

With a big old smile on my face and everything.