More Adventurous

After a momentary freak out last night, I think I've calmed down.  Dean and I got a lot of packing completed today, spoke to our apartment management about leaving (because it's job-related, there is no penalty), set up a credit card account with my bank, and got at least eight boxes packed up.  We also found $45 in change!  We decided to get Chinese food from our favorite takeout place in Rockville, but I do feel incredibly sorry for the little old woman who runs the place.

The worst thing about packing?  It makes you feel like the entire universe has been hiding in your apartment. You find things you can't even imagine that you spent money on, or odd gifts that never got used, or clothes that were bought, worn once, and then vanished into domestic oblivion.  Lipgloss.  Feminine products.  Hair elastics and bobby bins.  Cables and cords that went with who knows what.

So far, we are dividing things into four sections: 1) things for our suitcases that we will need immediately upon arrival 2) things that will be boxed up and shipped to LA, that we want but don't need immediately 3) things that we still want but don't need in LA that will stay at my parents' house in WV and 4) things that I don't want to throw away and feel that my friends/co-workers/family will want for free.  That last box is pretty cool---shoes that were never worn, a ton of barely used body products from BB&W/The Body Shop, some perfume, really cute headbands, styling products, Yankee Candles that were used maybe twice, etc.  Everything else?  TRASH.  Goodbye, Big Bang socks with worn out soles....goodbye, super cute hoody with a hole eaten through the left elbow.

Here is our change.  Dean just came home with the Chinese food.  :D

Picture from today.  See--tired and weary, but otherwise, okay.  This is my post-nervous breakdown phase.  I added a crown and a star necklace because I wanted to look fancy.  FANCY.

Peace.