The past few days have been a whirlwind of packing, moving, unpacking, and reorganizing. After my last final Saturday afternoon, I began loading the car with as much stuff from the dorm as I could. In went my computer, desk stuff, chair, TV, game systems, and a load of other random stuff. You have not seen comedy until you have witnessed me wrestling my 21-inch TV into the trunk of my tiny, tiny, Celica. I came so very close to getting everything packed, but as the car got more and more full, I realized to my dismay that I would have to make two trips. It all came down to clothes and my bike. Had I taken the TV, bike, and chair home the weekend before, I'm sure I could have gotten everything else. Luckily I didn't have to worry about the couch because Audie and Kristy were kind enough to keep it in a storage closet at their future apartment. The downside was that the closet was up four flights of stairs!
I finally started driving home around 10. I was so tired I didn't even bother unpacking my car; I just went straight to bed. The next morning (far too early for a Sunday, I might add) I drove Dad's SUV back to Purdue to pick up my clothes and bike. Because I had left my car at home, I didn't think to bring my key ring upon which I kept my room key. The very key I needed to turn in during checkout.
Proceed to bang head against wall...
I was ready to pay the $25 lost key fee— I certainly wasn't about to make another trip back and forth to Purdue— but the lady at the front office told me I could mail it to the dorm on Monday. Thank goodness.
When I finally got home for a second time, my family was in the throes of a Mother's Day gettogether. I joined in and finally had a chance to relax a bit. After that, I started unloading the cars.
I've come to realize since then that I have far too much stuff. For the past eight months I've lived in a rather spartan dorm room filled with things I need or have used recently. Coming back to my room at home where I've accumulated several years' worth of stuff was quite a shock. Before I could begin moving back in, I had to throw away, reorganize, or move loads of old books, magazines, electronics, toys etcetera etcetera etcetera to make room for the contents of my dorm. I installed some shelves over my desk and piled up at least a cubic yard of stuff to sell at a back-from-college sale I'm planning to have this Saturday a week from Saturday. Anything that doesn't sell I'll toss out or sell on Ebay. Let me know if you're interested in coming to the sale so I can send you directions on how to get to my house.
Now that I'm mostly settled, I can start readying myself to begin work another year-end wrapup at some point.