Decluttering

I've got a big day tomorrow. Kerri has bought a new lounge suite. It is to go downstairs in my office, filled with several thousand books and several years of clutter.

Kerri's personal plan is to hire a skip and move the contents of the room into it. This is not going to happen. I can see I'm going to have to get rid of more than a few token items such as an obsolete printer and an old modem, but where I'm going to find room to put everything I want to keep, well that will be a challenge.

On other fronts, I've gone through my wardrobe and thrown out a whole bunch of old shirts and well-loved trousers gone at the crotch. Anything I hadn't worn for ten years, I was ruthless!

Less than a month to go!

We fly out on the 23rd. In hindsight, it would have been cheaper and more convenient to just drive up to Sydney and catch our booked flight, and then the kids could have driven it back after four nights in the longstay. As it is, they'll get off the plane back from Hong Kong and hire a car to drive home to Canberra. Flights are cheap enough, but their flight arrives in the evening and the last plane to Canberra would have left by the time they cleared customs and made the transfer over to Domestic.

Anyway, it's all getting very close and I still have to tidy up a few loose ends, select books to take with me, sort out our affairs for two months away, hunt up all the adaptors and things from last time I travelled...

All very exciting, but those four weeks are just going to fly by, I can tell, what with me having only a few hours free each day.

I'm also trying to lose a bit of weight before the trip. My strategy of having only two meals per day doesn't seem to have worked. I think it's exercise and more exercise that will do the trick. I get very little chance to raise a sweat in a typical day, and helping little old ladies with their groceries just isn't cutting it.