the Queen of rubbish

Today I feel like a woman of waste management. Between yesterday afternoon/evening and today, I must have carried out about 4 full trash bags along with empty boxes and other rubbish to the giant garbage dumpster.

It all started when E took out a small suitcase from the back of the closet. One that I'd kind of forgotten. It's his so I don't pay too much attention. Plus, I'm only thinking about LARGE suitcases at this time. Anyway, that's when I realized where all of the translations I'd done in undergraduate were. Imagine if I'd thought to look there a couple of months ago when I was preparing my translation resume and searching for those translations. Oh well. Now I know where they are...and other important, as well as unimportant, documents.

Ah, not only did I find my translations, and pictures/souvenirs from our honeymoon in RJ, but I also found my report cards dating all the way back to elementary school and my birthday cards from my birth day.

And as we pull out empty boxes of literally every electronic device we've bought in the past 2 years from our laundry closet, it makes me question why we think to keep it all. I guess....just in case we'll need to return the PSP or laptop? But we won't. I don't know why we have them, but I'm sure E does since they're mostly his. Well, now we know we don't need them so they've been trashed. Along with old notebooks, syllabi from school, cup holders, and a giant mate cup that I bought in Porto Alegre years ago.

It turns out that we will probably be taking an airline to Brasilia that does not allow excess baggage during the month of July. What does that mean to us? We're now not taking our flat screen TV or our PC/monitor, among other belongings. We'll have to be very selective in what we choose to take, as well as what we choose to ship.

I'm beginning to feel even more of an urgency to get my act together in selling/packing/throwing away. E started it as he packed up new clothes that he's decided to wear only in Brazil and took out that above mentioned suitcase full of papers. And....we went to a party last night where everyone repeatedly asked us, "so, when do you leave?". Of course I was reminded that we literally have 2 months to the day left so we need to get on it.

I mean, I thought we were just going to sell a bit, pack up, and then take everything else with us on the plane. No need to ship out anything before we leave. Less to do and plan. Now it looks like we need to throw away more, sell more (i.e. the TV and PC/monitor), and take less. That makes more work. I mean, it's not as easy as just selling the PC, for example. I have to transfer all of my music on iTunes from that PC to my laptop and then we have to clean it out and then we can find a potential buyer.

I'm so glad that I'm organized and do my research.

In the meantime, at least this weekend, I'm the queen of rubbish, although a cutely dressed one. I'm also a hustler and a saleswoman. I mean, we did manage to sell our laptop desk and our coffee table just this afternoon to two different women. We may not have much shelf space now, but that's ok. We'll deal.

Now, I better get back to work.