Data
18 Feb
Let’s look at some facts:
Nights left in Tokyo: 5
Nights left in my apartment: 1
Kilos of crap already posted home: 6.5
Kilos of crap I am yet to post back, seeing my suitcase is now as good as full: 2865 (approx)
Actual weight of the things to post back: 10kg (approx)
Items to go by sea to save money because I am stingy: 1 blanket (clearly not so stingy that I would just throw it away and not send it home. An interlude of a couple of months is bearable, a lifetime without it is not)
Total floor space of my apartment: 25 square meters
Total floor space of my apartment currently covered in random shit and dust bunnies: 23 square meters
Things to do tomorrow before I move out: 19,287
On a scale of 1 – 10, how glad I am to be going to stay my Twin’s house tomorrow night to live out my last days in Tokyo: 15
Percentage of time I am squealing with joy (inwardly) about seeing D’Mummy: 146%
Parties I have already been invited to back in Oz: 2
Hours spent worrying that my luggage will be overweight and I’ll be forced to pay thousands of yen to take it with me: 22.5/24
Days until I am back online: 5
Days it will *feel* like until I am day online: 194
Likelihood I am addicted to the internet: 100%
People who still read my blog and thus care about when I’ll next update: 4.2
Assuming they let me on the plane with my suitcase packed with candy colored trinkets and Hello Kitty shit, I’ll see you all again on Tuesday when I am back in the land of Oz….after I have eaten my body weight in vegetarian sausages, Cadbury chocolate and french onion dip and had a deep and meaningful reunion with my gorgeous bed, of course.
Hooray! Have as much fun as you can in your last few days- I guess maybe the real fun will start once you’re out of your apartment, so you don’t have heaps of things to do anymore.
Safe travels- see you on the other side
xoxo
i can’t believe the time has finally come…!
(PS, i’ll be the 0.2)
5 days offline?! It will be like living in the 80s…but you’ll have parties to go to.
P.S. How did you manage to get 2 sq ft not covered in dust bunnies?
Wishing you well with getting everything finalized. Hope you have a safe flight home. Look forward to your next update. Take care of yourself.
There’s already 4 comments, so that makes me the .2!!
Hope to hear from you soon!!!
Feign innocence at the airport. Do not do what I did and pretend I coudn`t understand Japanese and then here Shun say “Laura chan” behind me and I turned around and said in Japanese “chotto matte,hanashiteiru yo”…….the lady was not impressed and made me pay excess. Stupid check in lady.
Packing sucks- but it is so close til you see D mummy! OMG!
Enjoy your last five days- do not die from internet withdrawal. I would. I asked Shun if I could take my laptop and wireless on our honeymoon and he said no