There's Just SO Much

Wow, fantastic! Yet another post where I don't have a super fun picture to share! My house is a wreck though and it's a little too embarrassing to show pictures of what it actually looks like. I'm sure if you've ever moved, you have an idea of how things start to look right before the move. Boxes everywhere, old junk pulled out of the depths of random closets, no cleaning has been done (besides dishes and basic cleaning) as the deep cleaning will be done soon. Basically, our house is a mess! But that's okay, only a week or so more and we won't have anything remaining in the house at all.

So, here's what's been going on in my life in the past couple of days...

Things We Bought
Desktop computer - It's a fairly nice one with an HDMI output. We bought it so we could watch American TV from the Internet on on our big screen TV. While I understand Japanese programming is fantastically fun, imagine days....no years...of not being able to follow shows you totally and completely understand. While I plan to integrate as much as possible in the local culture, I'm still from the USA and there's things I will miss about home. American TV is one of those things.

Japanese Language Software - Kohi wo kudasai. Jezu desu. (Coffee please! Great job!). We bought the generic Rosetta Stone (the box claims that the only difference between them and Rosetta Stone is $500!) and we bought a software that repeats Japanese phrases along with their English translation to a music beat, making recall a little easier. I must say, it works!

Clothes - I think I have enough clothes to wear for the month we will be without our household goods. Target had a sale on V-neck t-shirts for $6, so I stocked up on those. V-necks are a little more dressy than a t-shirt and a little more versatile, so hopefully I can wear these out and about

Things that are coming up
Yard sale - Saturday is the slated date for our yard sale. Hopefully we can get rid of a lot of the stuff we don't want to take with us. John's friends are coming over to help us move everything out to the lawn and to help us move things around inside the house to get ready for the sale. I think they're just in it for the booze (haha) but we can take all the helping hands we can get.

Plane tickets/Dependant Entry Approval Form - Hoping to have both these items in our hands this week so we can schedule a day for the movers to come take our items. This is pretty important as we will finally have a day we can move out of San Diego

** As a side note, a lot of my San Diego friends are having parties/gatherings this week as it's spring break week for the colleges and a lot of friends come into town. I've had to decline a lot and I feel bad, but planning an international move saves little time for much else. **

So, that's where we are with everything. Right now we're just waiting on those plane tickets. It's not like we get to sit down on a Travelocity site and pick and chose our tickets. Nope. John turned in a form with our preferences (evening flight, day we want to fly out, place we want to fly out) to the military administrative office. They'll let us know when our plane tickets are ready.