Moving makes me never want to buy anything ever again!

You think you're done once the movers take that last box but noooooo, of course it couldn't be THAT easy.  And despite the fact that you told yourself a month ago that you were going to do a little bit each week you haven't done much until the day before and now you're sitting in what should be a totally empty house but instead you look around and there's all this junk left over! My house is almost perfectly empty, I've repainted stuff, had the carpets cleaned and almost have my renter all ready to go.  Salvation army is coming by tomorrow to pick up half of my garage and the other half is all recyclable stuff or garbage and while I know its just a matter of getting off my butt and taking all that stuff to the dump it feels like its never going to be over! *sigh* Anyway, I'm off to VA on Monday and I have a jam packed weekend full of football and friends that I can't wait for! Don't really have anything super exciting to talk about,  just trying to get into the habit of posting regularly so feel free to leave comments or topic ideas :-D

The Space Bag Debate...Settled!

So I was at Big Lots yesterday (oh how I will miss Big Lots!) And I saw a Space Bag 7 piece value pack for $15. Since I basically I have to cram 2.5 months worth of clothes into 2 suitcases I figured $15 was a reasonable price to pay for some research :-) Last night I took pics of the clothes in the bag before I vacuumed the air out, after I vacuumed the air out, and this morning to see how much air it let in. I used a small Kleenex box (aside: spend the extra money and get the kleenex with lotion...your nose will thank you!) so you can get an idea of how big the bag was before and after. I took these pics with my camera phone so its still kind of hard to see but the bag really did go down to about half of its starting size and was the same size this morning! Woo hoo!!! Conclusion: Success!!! Its gonna suck lugging around these heavy suitcases but at least I won't have to wear the same thing to work everyday!!



Have a good one y'all!!



Threw in a pic of my dog, Honey, b/c she's cute and b/c I'm gonna miss her :(  

BEFORE

AFTER

NEXT MORNING

Honey Marie

The movers are coming, the movers are coming!

I still don't know when the movers are coming b/c the lady at the company refuses to confirm the actual date with me!!! I think they're coming on Thursday so here's a quick snapshot of what the house looks like.  If you know me, you might be confused b/c this is pretty much what my house looks like all the time but I swear the house is actually (sort of) separated into what I'm taking and what I'm storing :-D I am BEYOND excited for this move and I can't wait to get over to Japan already! I promise my writings will get better and hopefully a little more exciting but here's to my first post! Stay tuned, kids! 

I'm taking these pics with my webcam so bear with me on the pics too...I'll get a new camera soon enough :-D