The Wandering Game

Lately Ryan and I have been playing what I like to call the "Wandering Game". You get a box all ready for packing, put the few main things in that you set up the box for in the first place, and then you spend the next 15 minutes wandering around the apartment finding things to fill the rest of the box up. Each night usually ends with one box that isn't quite full. This late in the game though, it gets harder and harder to find things to fill boxes.

The other game we play is to put stuff out beside the dumpster and then see how quickly it disappears. It's dumpster diving season in Gainesville. I always thought that people could be so wasteful, but then I realized that the community is completely aware of the massive moving of apartments that goes on every July. People drive around with trailers, truck or SUV's from one dumpster to the next. It's worked out really well for Ryan and I to have the dumpster right outside our back door. When we first moved in, there was a blue rocking chair by the dumpster. I swiped it in the hopes of restoring it. It ended up in a closet for the entire 2 years that we lived here. It went back out to the dumpster and was gone in less than an hour.

We have gotten rid of so much stuff. I'm anxious to see how all the rest of our stuff will fit into a much smaller place. I'm hopeful that we will be approved for the new apartment early in the week. Tomorrow is Monday again, it is the start of my last two weeks. I can't tell you how excited I am to be moving on!

Maybe tonight I will finish that box in the kitchen...