Achoo!

I have kicked up some major dust bunnies.

Well, the end of the month has arrived and I am in the process of moving. Almost everything that lives inside of a piece of furniture is packed away and I have downsized quite a bit. I don't think I have fewer belongings than when I moved in here four years ago, but I definitely have fewer belongings than I did a year ago. I have sold 6 crates of books to Half-Priced books, donated four garbage bags full of clothes to a needy family, today I've filled 10 garbage bags with trash, I've gone through all my files and took out stuff I haven't looked at in 4 years, I've cleaned out my desk and thrown away stuff I haven't look at in 4 years. That's really been litmus test - if I haven't used in in the past four years I should get rid of it. As for the dust... wow. I needed to clean my apartment more, especially the corners and crannies. I never knew that much dust could accumulate!

Moving out of this apartment is good for several reasons. Of course, moving in with Billy is exciting and scarey, and prevents me from being too much of a recluse. I think we'll do fine together- we've been living together at my place for the past month (he rarely goes home, but now he has to in order to get ready for my stuff!). But another reason my timing is good is that my apartment is starting to fall apart. A couple of months ago I noticed cracks in my ceiling, cracks in my walls, my bathroom door doesn't shut well, my sliding glass door doesn't shut at all unless it's locked at the same time, and my front door deadbolt had to be removed because it wouldn't unlock, thus trapping me inside my apartment. Plus my balcony is starting to lean and I'm pretty sure some of the wood is rotten. Billy's happy I'm leaving as well - I think he'd worry if I stayed!

Time to pack some more!

Ciao!