Aimee’s World Tour

This blog is dedicated to my friend Laura Brown for her initial push to break the ADD barrier.  😉 

Nothing like staring at your apartment – even the most organized mess – and being completely paralyzed as to how to begin.  

Moving out is different this time.  Yes – boxes, bags, crap you want to save, necessities you want to chuck  – this is part of every move.  Only this time I can’t do multiple trips that cost me only the gas in my car.  

My Korean life must magically be transformed into suitcases and packages.

The kicker is weight.  If you go over at the airport you’re paying at least $100 per bag.  SOme airlines charge $200 for the second bag.  At the post office shipping to the US is approx. $1.00 per pound.  Luckily I brought home the bulk of my books at Christmas but I’m still left with, literally, a heavy burden. 

 While I must leave room for my yet to be purchased “Everest gear”, there is no room for error when calculating my luggage.  And that War and Peace version of China Lonely Planet might as well be a brick.

I want so much for someone to accidentally chuck  my shoe boxes filled with pamphlets, ticket stubs and other scap booking materials.  I would so much rather write about how they’ve disappeared than take scissors to masses of paper memories that are Thailand, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and Bali. 

Aside from aspirations for an amateur book of disected brochures, the information on this “crap” will help me in the writing of my back-logged blogs and thus I must make the effort. 

Luckily we have off today as part of the Lunar New Year holiday but return to school tomorrow.  I may have the entire day to do this but of all frivilous things, my hair appointment is an added stressor. 

Posing in a chair for 3 hours in the name of beauty and then not being able to wear a ponytail or wash my hair for 3 days is not conducive to packing.  But straight perm I must!  It’s cheap and saves countless hours of primping.  An excellent long-term investment. 

How I’ve managed to construct an analogy of packing to hair is not something to be proud of.

I suppose I should be spending this time sorting, not blogging, but writing helps puts everything out there in an organized manner and that’s what I lack at the moment.

So fearless packer I must become.  Go forth oh frustrated one.

~Kim Sue Min

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