There’s a bunch of stuff coming up and I’m feeling incredibly self conscious about the fact that my life is absolutely unfairly ridiculously awesome. What I am doing with my life is available to an incredibly small segment of the population and that’s awkward as fuck. But if I don’t plan because I feel awkward things will fail and then I will get to feel awkward and stupid instead of awkward and like I had some fucktastically cool adventures.

Need to pack more books.

Need to research DC more. Yes museums, but apartments and transportation and grocery shopping stuff. We don’t have dates of arrival yet so I can’t get too married to any one situation. But I should spend a fair bit of time staring at a map and figuring out where Pam lives and getting oriented about all the crap I’m going to need to know. Are there home school park days or drop in stuff?

I need to do more research on Malaysia. To some degree we are going to arrive and go “Now what?” but I want to have a very good idea of where things are. I may want to download a compass app for my phone. I look at maps a lot and I need to be able to orient my internal view of the city.

I have to pack books so I can see how much shit is going into storage so I can figure out what kind of storage company is the best deal. I want to put stuff in storage before we do fun pictures of the house. I need to schedule the photo shoot. We want a last photo shoot here so we can remember.

We talked about having a big party. Maybe. We do miss people. I don’t know how our bodies are feeling.

I need to do more looking around the UK. I’m torn between wanting to spend 6 months in Jenny’s city and knowing that people get awful sick of me and my shit. I keep friends better if I don’t overwhelm people.

Luggage stuff. At this point we have a whole bunch of small carry on bags, one giant roller suitcase, and two small roller suitcases of the carry-on variety.

I need to figure out some sort of frequent flier mileage program and figure out how we are all going to start collecting points. Because the next few years… we will want that.

Travel high chair/booster seat? The options are interesting. I don’t think I’d like one of the ones that attach to a table. I worry that the ones with a fully booster under then will be a pain in terms of bulk to carry around (but they put the kid at table height). Thee are also pure cloth ones that are light, easy to transport… but the baby will be too low to eat off the table.

Car seats. I think we are just figuring out public transit.

Today I should pack boxes. I was pretty lazy/restful yesterday. I should make progress today.

I packed two boxes. I loaded the table in the front yard.