Still Packing

We are still packing. We have done more math in the past two days, than I have used in my job in the past few months. When I substitute teach I dread teaching math, and I just tell the kids if you don’t want to do math, just hire people to do it. That’s what I do.

We have to weigh everything. Everything. And the scale in our bathroom is older than me, my wonderful sister in law brought a luggage scale and that has been a game changer. We discovered that our bathroom scale is off by 5 lbs and my only thought was “I really need to lose weight now”.

We were lucky to have my mother in law take our kids after church to a movie so we had time to work without kids distracting us. We got a lot done, until we started weighing our luggage. Each large piece of luggage is between ten and twenty pounds over.

We get 6 checked pieces of luggage up to 55 lbs. we also get 6 pieces of carry on up to 44 lbs. We also get a personal item to bring onto the flight as well. We are misreading than 75% done and a thought occurred to my wife. We have to bring this luggage through customs somehow. I don’t know how that’s going to happen. I think we are about to raise the white flag, and will need to ship a box of items. Luckily there is a fed Ex within walking distance of the home we are renting. I don’t feel comfortable shipping anything to the place we are renting just yet.

The flip side of all this packing is that we have to bring it back. We are going to be living for six months abroad, I’m pretty sure we are going to be purchasing a large amount of items for ourselves but also for our friends and family. Coming back I hopefully can take items back we aren’t using the last couple months we are there.

It’s 10:03pm and we still need to work for another couple hours. Then I have to go to court to try to convince a judge not to do something.

Tomorrow is my last court hearing for a month. My office is slowly getting organized, and the next time I’m in court is to close a case and open a case. Tomorrow is my last day in the office. I plan on waking up at 5am to be ready for this hearing. Crossing my fingers and praying that it turns out the way my client needs it to. This is a really scattered post. Days are merging together so fast. I’m going to start counting down the hours.

T-Minus 63 hours.