We are having a leaving do at our home at the end of the month with local friends, after I have resigned from my job and only a week before I go.  Maybe then I will feel it is a little bit real.  It is hard to see beyond the sale - or lack of - the house.  Once the ball has begun to roll on that can I begin to look forward.  Nothing else is on the same scale.  There are the cars to sell but the house sale is blinding me from anything else include my own departure.