I hate packing (so so much)
On of my first tweets ever was about how packing is one of my least favorite things to do, and it still holds true to this day. I've been trying to get my things together this past week or so, since next week this time I'll already be sitting in my teeny tiny room in the funny container room complex that I'll be living. also, I'll be sharing the kitchen with 43(!) other people, though I get my own little bathroom... Yay?
Anyway, as you can imagine, packing all my stuff and trying to put it somewhere has been a huge hassle, and so far I haven't made very impressive progress. Just trying to decide what to take with me is awful enough, but then I also have all the rest of the stuff that I need to pack too. Luckily for me, Paula's brother will be moving here for the next year so I have someone to pay my rent here as well as someone I can trust to take good care if my apartment and my furniture (which will be staying behind).
But yeah, packing sucks and I have no idea how to get everything ready in these so few days I have before I leave. How do other people do it? People are moving abroad/to the other side of the country/long distances all the time. I think the actual "what-to-pack-to-Norway" is not even that awful (since I have a list and everything!), but it's really all the rest of it. I have to go through all the stuff I have accumulated throughout the years I have lived here and make decisions and actually SEE it for once. It's all the small items and papers and stuff once I have packed all the clothes and books and kitchen items away. Like candleholders and things on my nightstand and all the million bottles of moisturizer.
When I whined about all this to Paula today, she just told me to suck it up and pack and she also reminded me that I wouldn't be in this situation if I really didn't like buying pretty things and having all this stuff. So yes, it's all my fault but most of the time I hope it would magically become easier somehow. Magical thinking never gets you very far, though.
Anyway, as you can imagine, packing all my stuff and trying to put it somewhere has been a huge hassle, and so far I haven't made very impressive progress. Just trying to decide what to take with me is awful enough, but then I also have all the rest of the stuff that I need to pack too. Luckily for me, Paula's brother will be moving here for the next year so I have someone to pay my rent here as well as someone I can trust to take good care if my apartment and my furniture (which will be staying behind).
But yeah, packing sucks and I have no idea how to get everything ready in these so few days I have before I leave. How do other people do it? People are moving abroad/to the other side of the country/long distances all the time. I think the actual "what-to-pack-to-Norway" is not even that awful (since I have a list and everything!), but it's really all the rest of it. I have to go through all the stuff I have accumulated throughout the years I have lived here and make decisions and actually SEE it for once. It's all the small items and papers and stuff once I have packed all the clothes and books and kitchen items away. Like candleholders and things on my nightstand and all the million bottles of moisturizer.
When I whined about all this to Paula today, she just told me to suck it up and pack and she also reminded me that I wouldn't be in this situation if I really didn't like buying pretty things and having all this stuff. So yes, it's all my fault but most of the time I hope it would magically become easier somehow. Magical thinking never gets you very far, though.