it looks like my sister is going to be moving out of the house around the same time as i am. she is unhappy with the flight school here and has decided to transfer to Regina. with both of us gone, my mom doesn’t have much reason to stay in Prince George. all of our family is in Saskatchewan and i wouldn’t blame her for going back there – even if it* is ridiculously hot and flat and boring and in desperate need of a few trees.

and so, with all three of us leaving this HUGE house in the near future, my sister and i can’t bear to think of leaving my mom to pack up all her stuff alone. yesterday we decided to tackle the garage. yuck.

i hauled an entire (overflowing!) truckload of clothes, furniture, and crap to our local thrift store in the early afternoon. my mom had a car full of recyclables, including several garbage bags of bottles donated to a gas station drive for a local boys’ wrestling team.

boy, did we purge. it felt so good.

in the same spirit, much of the rest of my afternoon was spent further refining the personal crap i just can’t bear to part with. and so, i give you the girly and the geeky:

i have been packing for a good month (at least) and i’m sure a lot of people thought i was starting ridiculously early. i guess it’s obvious now that i need a lot of time because i like to take my time. the only way i can appease the subconscious gods of What Am I Forgetting? is with many, many nights of sound sleep.

my goal was originally to narrow everything to two suitcases – which is what i definitely call “living lightly”.  since i will now be taking my arc’teryx trekking pack to africa, i have another 75 litres of packing goodness.  which is an extra bit of breathing room.

i other news, i haven’t run for three days due to a deep twang in my left thigh. it seems to be beyond all stretches and is terribly annoying. :/

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*i’m only disparaging southern Sask here. there are plenty of trees in Saskatoon and the northern part of the province is incredibly beautiful.

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