Tickets are booked - I am leaving next week if I am ready or not!

I have a fear of making commitments too far in advance which is why I usually leave things to the last minute, booking overseas flights are included.  While I have been talking about this little overseas adventure for quite sometime, I have left it until 4pm today to actually book and pay for my flights.  I leave next Thursday and between now and then, I have a flight to Sydney and three days in Melbourne (haven't booked that ticket yet).  Not sure when I am going to find the time to pack but if I am ready or not, I will be getting on that plane.  Hopefully I can find someone to take me to the airport.

Have I told you my neighbour is nuts?

I feel it is only appropriate to begin my new blog by informing you all that I think my neighbour is nuts.  It is currently 12:30am and in a few hours, actually, in 2.5 hours, my neighbour will walk out of his front door, open his particularly squeaky gate - a noise that belongs in a horror film - walk into my driveway and say: "Hello, hello, hello....there you are.  What are you doing there?".

The first time I heard him do this was a few years ago.  I'd just moved into my new apartment and was living by myself. I lay frozen in my bed listening to a man, whom I didn't know was my neighbour nor did I know he was calling out for his cat, walking within just a couple of metres from my open bedroom window. I thought I was going to be murdered, chopped up and never to be found again.

Clearly this didn't happen as I am still alive.  But at 3am every night since, my neighbour has opened his squeaky gate, walked into my driveway and called for his cat, Mr Biggells.  Who does this?  This is not normal behaviour.  If I was Mr Biggells, I would be running away from him too.