Minor Packing Successes

So yesterday passed the one­-week­-until-­I­-leave milestone. I’m officially starting to get a little sad I’m leaving home. Now everything is “Oh this’ll be the last Wednesday that I do this, and “Aw this’ll be the last time I shovel my car out from three feet of snow.” But really. You couldn’t see my car in the driveway. But I digress: I’ve been checking my flight everyday to make sure they haven’t changed anything on me and yesterday I bought a bus ticket to Freiburg and today I picked up Euros with a slightly disappointing exchange rate aaaand clothes are making their way into my suitcase. Because of my packing woes, I created a packing list Google doc that I constantly updated for about three weeks before I actually put any of it into a suitcase. After I put a good amount of my clothes in my big suitcase, I decided I really didn’t need another smaller one so now I have only the big one (not stuffed I might add, I didn’t have to sit on it to get it closed) and a large backpack that will be my overhead carry­on. I’m also posting some pictures of my uber­organized Google doc, and my obscenely unorganized suitcase in the throes of packing…

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