el crispito

With the house so cluttered with things to be sorted through, one can barely walk around. We have packed over 30 boxes of books, 3 boxes of DVDs and a few boxes of miscellaneous other items, but much remains to be reckoned with, as the photograph shows. This is a very educational experience for us, although we never seem to learn the lesson: DON'T COLLECT THINGS.

We have already started to think that perhaps in searching for an apartment in Guadalajara, we should not only get a guest bedroom, but also another room to store all this stuff. I almost feel like we should have an open house and let people in to pick over things and take what they want, like in that story by Bukowski where he lets all the neighbors take things they like from his recently deceased father's house.

Leave the whisky.

We have eight days left in our planned packing schedule, and hopefully at the end of those eight days we will have everything moved into a storage unit, packed to take with us, or packed to be freighted to us after we get an address. Then we go to Olney, Illinois (where my folks live) to drop off my car. We hope to return on Halloween, and as we depart on the 3rd of November, we'll have a couple of days to finish anything left, if we need it.