More vacations! Less unpacking!

I'm back! And now I can't wait to go on vacation again. Going back to work tomorrow is going to suck! I'm already mostly unpacked, with the suitcase put away and everything. I say mostly, because I count doing trip laundry as unpacking. I did one load today, and I'll do another one tomorrow. The trip was productive for reading goals - I read one banned book, and am more than halfway through another classic. There was a lot of beach reading while I worked on my tan.

Now that I'm home again I need to start focusing on my purging goals, so that I have less stuff to move. Once I find a place to live, of course. I also need to do a deep clean of my room. It's due, and as I get closer to my move-out date I know that it will get harder for me to be motivated to do it at all. I've realised that a lot of my mess comes from paper. I have a ton of papers floating around, that I'm not sure what to do with. I think I need to start scanning and saving electronically. My scanner is stopping me though - it is a plate scanner instead of a feed scanner. Which means that if I want to scan multiple pages I have to do it basically manually, replacing the scanned page on the scanner with an unscanned page each time. Not exactly a job that I am dying to get to.

This week is also dedicated to getting a baby gift done. I am knitting a bonnet and booties for a friend who is expecting. The bonnet and one booty are mostly done, and I've started the second booty. They take longer than I had expected. Once I am done the knitting part, I have ribbon to add for extra cuteness. Then I am going to try to get another pair of booties done for a friend who just had a child. Couldn't do those in advance because we didn't know the sex, and I didn't want to make generic booties. I'm starting to think though that I should knit up some pairs to have on hand for the next round of babies!

GTFO

Aaaaaaand I have to move. We found out this week that our landlord is going to be using our house for his in laws now, so we have 60 days to pack our stuff and get out. Yay homeless! I was already planning on leaving at some point, just maybe not quite yet. So I'm not too upset or stressed by it (yet), but I'm a bit miffed that I'm not working on my own timeline anymore. And the landlord's timing seems fishy. There's been a few issues going on lately between my other roommates and the landlord, so we're wondering whether everything is on the level. Doesn't change anything either way though, I still have to move!

But I'm not dealing with that until I get back from vacation. Leaving for the Dominican in about 9 hours, that's taking precedent. So far packing isn't though. I've pulled a few things out, but nothing has gone in the suitcase yet. It may be a mad dash to the finish for me. I've gotten better at packing in a short time frame though, I'm sure I'll be done in plenty of time. Hence why I think I've got time to blog instead of packing. It's very productive.

I realized today how long it had been since I had last blogged, and I felt guilty. Every other week does not mean once a month! And I even mentioned last time that I would need to start posting more often. That doesn't seem to be happening yet! Goal-wise things are going well, when I have time to do goal things. I'm at 47 now, with 16 that are close or within reach of being done in the near future. I"m still plugging away at the rest.

Lately I've been thinking about starting a second list. There are a lot of things I would change about my current list if I were to have the chance to do it over. For instance, I think I was too ambitious with my crafting goals. I seriously underestimated how long it takes me to knit a kappa square, and didn't really consider that I would need to spend time doing other crafts in order to finish those goals. Now that I've gone through it, I think I could make another list that would be more manageable. But that is a task for another day. Today's task is to get packing!