ready...set....PACK!

Since I am usually rambly I am guessing this blog is going to be a combo of that side of me as well as a place for me to write about my travels which are going to start again soon! We are leaving in about 2.5 months for Central and South America...but before then we have a pile of stuff to do...

1 - Pack up the apartment
This has started! Well actually I have only chucked our CDs into a box so there is lots to do

2 - Take pictures of furniture, post online and (please please) sell furniture
We are getting rid of some dressers, a desk and a bookshelf....this does mean that for about 4 weeks our clothes will live on the floor, chairs, the back of doors...

3 - Sell my beloved Ford Aspire a.k.a "Bobby Assfire"
I did not think I would care but I am more than a little sad to think I won't be speeding around in this car again.

4 - Try and get my Spanish ability moving forward
With all this other stuff going on I have been slacking on studying

5 - Get T and I vaccinated.
I hate needles. T hates them more than I do...good times.

6 - Eat everything in the pantry
Ok maybe not the seriously old looking vermicelli noodles that I cannot recall buying...but I hate throwing out food so we are going to attack that pantry with voracious appetites for all things canned, pickled and possibly unrecognizable.

Though I am getting a bit panicky that 6 weeks is not enough time for us to get ready and out of our apartment it is a good excitement.

freaking exciting!

things freaking me out....

• it is September...we leave in January
• our apartment has somehow accumulated waaaaaay more stuff than expected in the last 4 years
• we have to clean out and pack up our stuff (see above) and store it...somewhere
• what am i doing with my life (this is a constant thing to stress out so no reason why it shouldn't make it onto this list)
• how am i going to pack up my beloved clothes and shoes and live out of a backpack again (yeah yeah whatever i can't help it)
• will our little beloved VW (a.k.a Marlin) be up for the driving challenge
• how are we going to get around Columbia???

but i am excited about

• hitting the road
• learning to speak spanish more fluently (please please please)
• beaches to hang out on
• learning to surf..i have to before we move to NZ otherwise i won't be able to keep up with the boys
• my amazing camera that is going to capture this adventure
• getting to see another part of the world with t, this time as a couple (yeah whole other story..perhaps one day i will blog about that)
• the potential to maybe work abroad again
• seeing the world from another point of view
• saying "see ya" to the oil and gas madness that has taken over this province
• meeting new people and cultures
• that feeling of not knowing what you are going to do that day