Beth's Journal

Spent most of last weekend, this past week, and yesterday cleaning crap out of our apartment in preparation for our big move in June. We're trying to pare our stuff down as much as possible so we don't have so much to drag over to Indiana with us, and so we can get away with getting a smaller moving van. I'm starting to look forward to a fresh start, and letting go of the past. I managed to get rid of quite a few things, actually - including this nasty-smelling, ratty as all hell bathrobe I've had for 15 years that turned into something of a comfort item. I don't think it'd had a proper wash in about 10 years, and it shed chenille bits all over the place. It's probably for the better that it got tossed - I tend to cling to stuff like that, and considering it was a stand in for my security blanket for a while, I was pretty attached to that stinky bathrobe, but if I hung onto everything I was attached to, I'd have so much useless crap accumulating everywhere. So, yeah. We ended up dumping 8 bags of trash in a dumpster on campus and leaving five bags at the thrift store. Kinda hoping there'll be more where that came from, I know we have a lot of junk, but who knows.

We're actually thinking of renting a tiny storage unit somewhere in Bloomington and bringing stuff we won't need for a few months - like most of our winter clothes, our boxes of books, and some of our kitchen stuff. I just have to get on Bryan's case to pick a date for when we're going to visit IUB and stuff like that.

I have to go give a computer lesson to the guy I petsit for - today we're covering pulling videos off a camera and saving them or burning them to DVD. Which is easy-peasy, compared to walking him through the basics of Excel last week. I'm still not so good with Excel, but I'm getting there. And then I've got work at the lab tonight, which means I'm going to have to make a pot of coffee and bring it with me in the thermos so I can stay awake.