This is me being excited

"This is me being excited, very, very excited" I said, with tears in my eyes. I know the move will have challenges, and I know we are going into a bureaucracy that's slower paced. Fear and excitement are the same chemical, I keep saying to myself.

Deep cleansing breaths.

Yesterday afternoon Seattle time, I transferred 2 months deposit and 4 months worth of rent to Portugal to our new landlord. The mobile app said "it's on us now" essentially, as it was after business hours.

I saw zero prompt for the transfer being too much, or it being wrong somehow. I however also don't see anything in the mobile or web-based info that states that there's a pending transaction for these thousands of dollars.

When talking through it with Shayne this morning, of course he calmed me down. I'm in my pajamas, tears in my eye saying "this is just me being very excited" and laughing nervously. Like, where did it go? What did I do wrong? There were talks of backup plans if we had to do it more than one, smaller chunks of money, etc. What if it isn't even the right account. Oh &#6% oh #(*& oh @&(*.

I've since verified the numbers on that account 10x, on top of the 20x I did the day before when I began this. Wire transfers are not something we do as much in the United States, and if we do it's a huge hoop, a bank visit and likely some paperwork from someone else to verify accounts, not just us inputting numbers.

Fast forward another pot of coffee and a shower to reset my brain.

About an hour later, I got a phone call from the bank in Portugal, apparently with that level of money they need to verify the transfer. They only verified my birthdate, and didn't reverify anything else so I felt pretty confident it wasn't a scam or something. I immediately saw the confirmation of transfer in my account.

WHEW.

So for future, any big transfers like that are best done either over the phone to setup or at the bank itself. Duly noted. We might have to do one more transfer remotely before we arrive but I'm hitting up the bank as soon as we arrive in Portugal to set this up long term.