The Great Purge

The last few weeks (ok, last week, i'm a procrastinator!) has been spent purging my house, my storage room, my mom's house, and my dad's house of "things" i've accumulated over the last 29 years. I wanted to get a jump start on getting rid of things so that when it's closer to time to move, it won't be a mad rush. So Meg and I decided to have a garage sale. If you ever want to find out what's really important to you, move to another country where all you can take is 2-3 suitcases. But suprisingly, it wasn't as difficult as I thought. I had just accquired way to many things. As my mom said a few weeks ago when she was cleaning out her closets, "It's sinful how much stuff i have!". (Hmm, thanks mom for passing on that trait!)

But with the help of great friends and family, it all came together for a very successful sale and most importantly, I am down to minimums on what is left. I did get a little sad when left to myself, surrounded by the last 10 years of my life. I think it all hit me that it's really happening! I am getting married and moving out of the country. I am closing..no, slamming shut, a chapter in my life and opening another one. It is exciting and sad all at the same time. I started to get teary-eyed and rushed upstairs to skype Dan and lament about closing the chapter. These are the times that the 7 hour time difference really stinks! He was fast asleep (as he should be, it was 3am there!). So i just continued on pricing away my old life and sifting through memories of good times and bad, being thankful that I had those memories and remembering all the great times that this chapter has held. I know this next chapter is going to be more than i can even begin to imagine and I am more and more excited everyday to get it started.

By the way, the Netherlands are 2-0 in World Cup games, US is (hmm, not really sure how you would depict this...) 0-2--0(tied 2 games) thanks to a really crappy call by a ref! Apparently everything stops when the Dutch play soccer. pretty cool.