I turned in grades last Monday, and I’ve been sick ever since. Yesterday and today, I finally feel more human. I can’t believe it was 5 days of sniffling, sneezing, and body aches to celebrate the end of the semester.

It’s a good thing I’m finally feeling better. I’ve got an apartment to clean and organize before Mom gets here Wednesday evening to help me start packing.

Decisions to make:

1. External Hard Drive – what brand? USB or Firewire? portable?
I have about $100 to spend. I need to move my music and images off to make more room to install the Adobe Creative Suite. Somehow in the last 3 months, I’ve used a third of my hard drive, but I need at least 6 GB of space to install the programs. I think what I’m going to do is to move all my documents, my iTunes Library, and iPhoto library off the computer to the external hd and then reinstall the OS and only essential programs including the creative suite. Get it delivered here ASAP or to the parents.

2. Rent a truck or get a pod
I’ll have to check prices to find out whether it will be cheaper to get a moving truck (twice) and storage building or get a pod. I’m going to move home for a short time while I find a job. I’ll need to pay to move my stuff to a storage facility and then move it again to wherever I end up. Or, I want to check prices and whether I could get a pod delivered to load up and then just have them deliver it to me at the new place. But, if I get a pod, then I’ll have to see if Mom and a brother can come back the middle of June (my lease end date) along with my step-father Dennis because we would need someone to drive the truck, someone to drive my car, and then I would need to ride my bike (no one else rides it!), as well as someone to drive the vehicle they come down here in.

3. Set a move-out inspection with the apt. manager. My lease ends at 12 noon on June 14th. If I and family load truck/pod on morning of the 13th and clean in afternoon, then I could do the walkthrough on the morning of the 14th. It’s cutting it close, but it would give me a few hours to fix anything if they quibble over anything.

4. Make a hotel room reservation for June 12 and 13.

5. Decide whether to sell maitress/box springs, sofa, dining room table/chairs, and entertainment hutch that are all nine years old and starting to show some signs of wear. Then, I could rent a smaller truck and lease a smaller storage space. Could I be happy at the new place without these until I have funds/time to replace them? Probably, except for the bed, which is really too soft now and I should replace with something more firm anyway for my back health.

6. Decide what to eBay or garage sale and separate from other items.

7. Decide what books go where. Are there books I can purge from my collection? What books go to storage? What books go with me?

8. Get bike serviced for summer. Buy battery. What else?

9. Take car for service. Also get it washed.

10. Sort/shread unnecessary filing, paperwork and unclaimed students’ papers.

I’m sure there are more decisions to make, but that is enough of a list for now.