Packing woes.

Packing is such a pain.

I actually have a love-hate relationship with it. When I pack just to home for a week or so, I get to plan out my outfits and what I'll take and make a nice little list to reference. Oh, I love that part. But then when it comes time to get to the airport and weigh that sucker, well, I'm sweatin' bullets. No, I probably don't really need those 6 pairs of shoes for the week, or enough clothes for 3 outfit changes a day, but what if I come across the situation where I just needed that outfit???? A girl has got to be prepared!

This time around, I don't have to choose what to pack because we are moving. So it really includes everything. We have weeded quite a bit of stuff out of course because we had to realize if we loved it enough to pay the money to ship it or deal with packing it into our tiny car. Here's the thing... I love all of my clothes. I have a disgusting amount from loving shopping before I worked in retail, and then shopping an obscene amount since I've worked in retail for over a year now. You collect a lot of clothes that way. So I have my HUGE red suitcase stuffed to the brim with most of my clothes, but it also overflows into 3 other boxes. I don't know if you knew, but clothes are kinda heavy when they're all piled into one place. Whoops. I'm not looking forward to the damage when Nick takes them to the Post Office to ship them today. Not one bit :/ Now, the clothes I can handle shipping, but my shoes are another story. I have a duffle bag stuffed with sandals and flats and a few pairs of heels, and then a plastic storage tub filled with shoes as well. Don't worry, I have about 8 more pairs I still need to pack. I can ship the clothes I don't need right when we get home, but my shoes?? Heck no. Those babies are staying in the car with me. I love them too much to risk it. Sad, I know. I just have to be OK with shipping other things and paying a crap-ton for it. We just don't have a choice. It's either throw it away, ship it, or rent a small U-haul and fit everything we want comfortably but then pay about $1500 to drive it across country. Uh, thanks, I'll pass.

Another thing about packing? My apartment looks like a hot mess. Stuff is everywhere. It's also kind of dirty, because I haven't cleaned in a couple weeks because I knew that after I'd clean it we'd just start packing up crap and moving furniture out and there was just no point. It's not terrible, but to my standards we are living in filth hahaha. It just needs a good vacuum, and the bathroom sink especially needs cleaned. I am not even going to talk about the fridge. Here are a few pictures to give you the idea of life this past week:

Yikes. It stresses me out just posting this. Which is probably why I woke up at 6 am and had trouble going back to sleep, and then just decided to get up at 7 after some restless dreaming. There still feels like there is so much to do, but a lot of that is because we haven't moved our furniture out yet. Someone is buying our bed tomorrow, and Nick found people to take our couches and tables and probably some of our other furniture. He has assured me that today, when I come home, all the trash that needs to be taken out that's lying byt he door will be gone, and that all of the furniture will also be gone. I sure hope so. Thankfully there are guys around still that are taking the furniture and are willing to help move it, because I definitely did not want to do it. I just need to trust that things will get taken care of, and I can just focus on cleaning up the rest of the apartment. That seems like a fair deal, right? Yeah, I thought so too.

I just really can't even believe this time has finally come. We kept counting downt he days and our moving day felt like it would never come, but it's here. We leave Decatur for good tomorrow and that's crazy to think about. I have loved our little apartment - it really became home for us here. Even though our first apartment together was in Decatur, it will still hold a special place in my heart. Decatur will in general! I don't even want to think about saying goodbye to the rest of The Limited girls later today, and it is going to be a little strange to finally be living this little town that we went to school in. Whatever people say about Decatur, I have made some amazing memories in this place, both in school and out, and I will actually really miss it. I think it will be a little bittersweet when we pack up the car tomorrow and hit the road...