Deanna ([personal profile] dr4b) wrote2011-01-18 11:55 am

Packing is hard

It's a little weird because I'll be coming back here in 2 months, so I can finish going through stuff and getting rid of and/or bringing back whatever then.

So trying to decide which things I actually want to have with me in the US over the next two months has been a little difficult. I mean, in general I'm trying to bring as much as possible back with me, but I'm also just thinking how completely ridiculous the concept of belongings is in the first place. Life would be a lot easier were we not tied to these kinds of things.

Yesterday I basically spent the day packing and stuff.
I went to get my last Tenkazushi for lunch, then came back to the house and did laundry. I threw stuff into the dryers at the downhill laundromat around 3pm and then went to meet up with Kobayashi for coffee since she said she had a going-away present for me. It turned out to be a USB stick full of photos of college baseball from this year, some crazy stuff like the WUBC training camp. Also on the stick is a Waseda cellphone charm (she actually went to Waseda, unlike the rest of us who just cheer for various teams).

Unfortunately we spent like 2 hours talking about random stuff, so I got back to the laundromat around 5:30pm, my stuff had been sitting there for like 2 hours, but this is Japan so nobody took any of it. Whee.

Then I spent the evening packing, with a break to go to Yokado (20 minutes before the 6th floor closes and I managed to get a plastic case at the 100-yen shop, play a final game of Pop'n at the arcade, and get a final apple taiyaki) and to Otoya for dinner (katsudon/udon dinner set). Completely stuffed, I came home and continued packing. Napped from around 2am to 9am or so.

The thing is that in addition to packing I have also been cleaning up to some extent. Usually when I come back to Japan after a trip to the US, the house is a wreck. This time, when I come back, the upstairs rooms will be in pretty good order, at least.

I really wish they'd have kept the weight limit at 70 pounds per bag instead of 50. 50 is really tight for me. My carry-on is also going to weigh like 50 pounds :|

[identity profile] dvarin.livejournal.com 2011-01-18 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Bets on time to pizza? I'm going to go with less than two days.

[identity profile] oren.livejournal.com 2011-01-18 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Time to Chipotle? :)