stuff the stuff!

So we are preparing. For what you might ask? We are preparing to shove all of our necessities into a few measly suitcases. And at my house right now it is battle! I currently have three trash cans that get picked up on Wednesday...and let me tell you it isn't enough. Not by a long shot. David will be home in 15 days and I really wanted to have everything thrown out. But there is no way on earth that I can shove 11+ years of stuff into three trash cans that seemed huge but now look achingly small.

A part of this process is liberating...I just threw out our mug collection yesterday. You know the one. Everyone has them. 30 some odd mismatched mugs that you never use - and we don't even drink coffee! That was easy. In fact, so far everything has been relatively easy. That is because I haven't gotten through that first layer of unnecessary junk yet...but when I do - that is when the real battle will ensue - that battle with myself. I know it is coming and that there are things I will need to throw out, but won't be able to bring myself to toss. BUT I'm not to that point yet. I daresay that it might not be a big deal at that point. Perhaps I will have gotten into this super amazing rhythm and not even notice that I tossed out that shirt that I wore on my first date with David or that textbook on Stagecraft or that tube of lipstick that I MIGHT want to wear someday but haven't in like 12 years.

I did find a glitch in all of this...yesterday I was about to leave for church and couldn't find the choir music...I suspect it got tossed. I worry about that...well not the music, just that I might accidentally toss something away that I didn't mean to toss. So today I have noticed a different pace. S-L-O-W-E-R. And I simply don't have time for that! I have to pick up the speed again. I am becoming this supersonic tosser. And yesterday I literally stood on TOP of the trash in the can to try and squeeze it down further. The problem with that is that you don't want to get it too stuck in there or the one-time-garbagetruck-tip might not loosen it and then I have to go another week with an already half full can.

Oman and Dubai and all the other cool places I get to go better just be worth all of this trouble.

So for now, gentle readers I am going to toss aside my fears of throwing away the wrong things and stuff the stuff!