Exactly one week

So, I'm a little on edge. In 1 week I'll be on a plane heading 6,000 miles away from home. Seeing as I've never been farther than a 30 minute drive from my mom's, I'm a little nervous. It'll be interesting to see how I survive...or don't.

Right now my biggest concern is luggage. Originally I was hoping to ship most my stuff, but apparently you can't really "ship" packages anymore. It was going to cost somewhere around a 1,000 bucks to send 4 boxes of the basic necessities (though, having never really "left" home, I'm not sure what those are...so I packed everything). Most people would just go and buy their own stuff when they got there, but unfortunately...even if I wanted to, it'd be nearly impossible to buy most of my stuff there (I guess I could if I wanted to dress like a man). So after lots of phone calls, I decided the cheapest thing to do would be to take one of my boxes on the plane. Of course I realized what a stupid idea this was when I noticed that the box I didn't ship weighed 55 lbs. Gah, I think my common sense is getting flushed out by the chlorine puddles taking up residence in my ears. With only two hands to spare, this becomes quite the conundrum (unless I manage to sprout a few more appendages in the next couple of days).

So, I went and purchased the largest possible suitcase you can take on a plane (62 linear in). It's the largest, ugliest, purplest suitcase I've ever seen (but still cheaper than mailing my box). It'll definitely be hard to lose. 2 hours later and it weighs in at a whopping 75lbs. In order to redistribute the weight, I'm now up to 3 suitcases. Which leads me back to the original problem...where will I get enough arms to carry all of them? Maybe if I look pathetic enough people will take pity upon my foolish soul and help. I could leave the wii and rock band and consolidate to 2 suitcases, but Casey wants to keep the xbox360, so that leaves me with the wii or nothing. And the only game we have is rock band...I know, stupid. Now that I think about it, I can't imagine that I'll be able to play rock band or the wii, but I can't bring myself to leave it...maybe I can use it for English lessons :) That'd have to be the coolest way to learn a foreign language. Ahh, but I digress. So I guess now my biggest concern is how I'm going to carry 3 suitcases. I guess I have 6 days to try and rig some sort of contraption, I'm not sure my brain is up for it. I apologize now for all the people who are bound to be taken out by my purple suitcase next week.

~gomenasai~