08.03.06
All packed and ready to go… kind of
This is what packing for 26 months looks like:
According to my not-so-trusty scale, my checked baggage is about 75 pounds. I’m allowed to bring 100, but I bought smaller luggage on purpose so that I wouldn’t bring so much crap. I really didn’t think that I’d be able to get everything to fit, but I did after taking out a lot of stuff that I had wanted to bring. How will I survive without my Gucci shoes and Marc Jacobs bag?
Besides getting ready, I haven’t been doing much of anything since I stopped working except for lazing in the backyard and going swimming since it’s so damn hot out.
After living in this house for 20 years, my parents finally decided to make the pool swimmable now that they want to sell the house. At least I got to enjoy it for the past few weeks during this unbearable heat. It’s kind of sad that when I return, my family will have moved to Atlanta of all places. This is my childhood home, the only house I really remember living in. I’m being a bit nostalgic, which is so not me. Now if only someone would buy the house. Anyone in the market?
Ju said,
August 7, 2006 at 3:42 pm
Yo,
I am back in NJ. It sucked that we missed each other. Shoot me an email after you save some starving kids…
Ju
romana said,
August 7, 2006 at 8:48 pm
jane! that pool looks awesome…. it’s making me drool…
anyways, wanted to wish you the best on this journey. hope to see you sooner, rather than later, but not too soon b/c that will mean that you did take the first plane back to the states. hee hee.
Sunny said,
August 14, 2006 at 6:39 pm
Hey Jane,
It’s August 14th, and you haven’t updated your blog. I had to check out the link of your fellow Bulgaria PC’er to find out what’s it like to live in that back-waters of a country. Apparently, it’s pretty advanced and not the desolate savaged lands I imagined it to be with open raw sewage, filthy children, or superstitious people running around sporting garlic bulb necklaces. Okay. I’m not that moronic, but seriously, what’s it like there? Keep us updated.
Jacob said,
August 17, 2006 at 8:08 pm
Hope your “trip” will be one of those life changing experiences… although, I fail to see you as the type to be surprised with most adventures… but we can all hope. I have a few hopeful guesses… we can compare notes when you come back in a few years.
BTW, Good luck!