Moving Moving Moving

Spring Cleaning! Whooooooo Whoooooooo! I love this time of year! Throw the windows open - pour a little Lysol down the sink...Get rid of the crap that we've been tripping over all winter...put stuff away to deal with next spring cleaning....oh, wait. I can't do that this year, we are moving. True - I move a lot - about every 24 - 36 months. You would think I would have this down to a science - but somehow the strangest possessions keep following us from location to location. I always have a long purging process before we move - and I do get rid of a lot of crap - everything from old soccer cleats to last year's must have Jasmine Springtime candle from a homecoming formal to a box of salted fish. Yet, I still have this junk that continues to move with me.

This includes: 1. A pair of pink bobby sox that I'm not sure were ever in style. 2. A jar of cumin from the Tarawa Terrace Commissary. (Commissary no longer exists) 3. Black Christmas flats with embroidered candy canes. (They'll be cute when I'm 70) 4. My punch bowl and 36 punch glasses. I haven't served punch since 1995. 5. Wine with Anything lipstick that goes with nothing. 6. Hair curlers. Not hot rollers - actual plastic curlers. I think they were once my mom's. 7. My ghetto blaster from college. The tape recorder hasn't worked for years and the volume is permanently set out "2." This is just a sample of things that I can't seem to get rid of.

I also have a collection of things I will never get rid of. I don't even see these things for years at a time - but I know I have them should I ever need them. Among these gems: 1. A stuffed banana called Anna Banana. (it works great for bunko!) 2. My varsity jacket (came in handy when Sissy received hers - and hubby has his too, so this isn't really a fighting point) 3. All of my albums, cassettes and 45's. True, I don't have a record player - but, but nothing, nothing, is better than folding out "Frampton Comes Alive!") 4. Yearbooks, photo albums, scrap books, etc. I keep everything and I know exactly where to find what I need. 5. Every pair of glasses I have ever owned.

The problem is - we can only take a limited amount of weight with us and the rest has to go to non-temporary storage. We won't have access to anything in storage for three years. I guess I'll just hope pink socks and hair curlers don't make a comeback. But, I'll take Wine with Everything just to be safe. And the lipstick, too.