Too Much Stuff!

Here's the latest update.  The work visa has cleared the first hurdle.  As of last Thursday, the local labor organization in Paris reviewed the work.  Now, the Migration Department has to do the final approval.  Hopefully it takes no more than 1 or 2 weeks.  Then we can plan a trip to Atlanta and book flights to Paris.

Tomorrow, the buyers close on our house.  We've spet the last several weeks working our tails off to get out of the house.  We got the last few bits in today.  The biggest props go to Sandy for all of the packing she did and getting the house ready.  I mostly just moved stuff into storage.

So now we are living in a hotel.  I'm glad it's only temporary!  But like I said earlier, this is part of the adventure.  Hopefully the dogs settle in more tonight.  They were not settled last night.

In short, I've learned something important over the last several weeks.  We've gotten rid of a lot of "stuff" over the last year that the house has been for sale.  Even with that, we still had a lot of stuff.  I'm sick of stuff.  It's a bad sign when I had a lot of clothes set out to go to Paris and what I decided I could live without still filled my dresser.  Yes, I pulled out a year's worth of clothes and could still fill a dresser with what was left.  We donated a lot of clothes to the Salvation Army.  We want to be minimalists going forward.  Less stuff.

That being said, we still fit everything into a 10' x 20' storage unit.  I had 5 awesome friends help yesterday with all of the "big stuff".  They completely rocked it.  We fit more into that unit than I thought possible.  And yet, I had to take more there today.  I hope they aren't as sore today as I am.

Hopefully the next post in the next week or so will be the final work visa approval!