My eyes got wet towards the end of your blog jusi, that is great news!
I'm not sure if you've ever heard of Robin Banks, the Mindpower guru I call him. If he ever comes to Cape Town, try to go to one of his talks, it's sooo inspiring. I won a course when we went to listen to his free intro talks and sent Dean on it - Dean was working as a bank teller at Standard Bank at the time, could not get into their IT Dept so he left and joined an IT company and look where he is now - seconded to the same bank as a Java developer and they now have to pay big bucks for his service!
So you're doing the right thing - visualise your dream and it will become your reality:)
Good luck with the new job!