It's finally over (almost) - the big move within 6 hours

I am MAJORLY exhausted right now. Today was just a hard day. I kinda still can't believe that we actually managed to move all of my stuff from one apartment and one city to my other apartment and another city in just 6 hours!!!

We got up pretty early this morning. We had breakfast around 8.30 am. Claudi and Daniel arrived at my apartment around the same time - we were kinda not doing anything for a little bit because we had to wait until we could get the transporter which was around 10 am.

It took the 6 of us an hour and a half to load the transporter - I was surprised. We then drove to Nordhausen with a transporter and two cars and got here around 2 or something.

By 5 pm I was already all by myself... well, it's me and 42 boxes in my apartment...

I am glad it's over. I have a whole month now to unpack all of this stuff since Matthi won't be home anyways to bitch about not being able to walk around in his apartment. Lol.

Going back to Leipzig by Tuesday to clean the old apartment... feels like cleaning is all I ever do anymore...

42 boxes and 31 pieces of furniture

Packing is DONE!! I can't believe we managed to get it all done. I have friends over that helped me and now we're off to hit the bars to celebrate.

The actual move starts tomorrow at 10 am.

A must-have-dress and life without a TV

I know, this is post #4 today, but it's well worth it to keep you updated on this crazy day...

After my last blog post was published I went into town to have a coffee. Julia was working and I wanted to say hi and just relax a little. I had just finished my first coffee [grande vanilla latte, as always] when Claudi walked in. The moment I saw her, I knew this was going to be a great day. I mean, the coincidence to run into each other in a city with over half a million inhabitants is just amazing... we had another coffee together and then decided to go buy my dress.

We walked into the store just to find that they couldn't order the size I needed. I was devastated and I think the sales person got a little scared because I INSISTED on this dress IN MY SIZE. Lol. I mean, I had set my mind on it and it HAD to be THIS dress. I couldn't believe that my size was sold out NATIONWIDE!! I instantly thought: "Okay, maybe this is my sign that going back home in November will not work out!" I seriously wanted to start crying but Claudi and two really nice ladies tried to convince me to try the bigger size again. I did [by the way it was a size 14, in words fourteen - I HAVE NEVER WORN A FLIPPIN' SIZE 14!!!!!!]. Not surprisingly it was "a little big". Since it is a strapless dress, I was just kinda worried to be comletely naked by the end of the wedding. But Claudi had a great idea: we added straps and all of a sudden IT FIT PERFECTLY!!! It was amazing, I mean I would have never guessed that straps can make such a difference... I still think it's kinda weird, but I was just THRILLED. We added a little jacket [yes, I am aware of the fact that it will be NOVEMBER = winter and btw: the size of the jacket was a 10!!] to complete this wonderful little outfit... I AM SOOOOOO EXCITED! And I got even more excited when I heard the AWESOME PRICE FOR THE ENTIRE OUTFIT: it was only about 90 bucks [that is US- Dollars] - originally it used to be a little over 200 US-Dollars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wonderful...

I wanted to hug abd kiss everyone in that store on the way out, I carried my bag like a little baby... I was in heaven- still am. After Claudi donated some of her blood we had "champagne on the rocks" to celebrate this awesome outfit. We were reeeeeeeeeeally tipsy after just one drink but we had a lot of fun anyways.

I headed to the main station to meet up with Julia and her boyfriend [who does not like my desk - lol]. They helped me to put some stuff in boxes and take down pictures and such.

Now, I am sitting here and the silence in this apartment is driving me insane. I decided to re-connect the TV...it is so much better now. I am trying to get used to the echoing in my apartment though since there isn't that much furniture left in here. BUT THERE IS SO MUCH DIRT. It is nasty and I am so not looking forward to cleaning it early tomorrow morning.

Claudi will be over for breakfast and then 3 of my other friends are driving 3 hours to help me move on Sunday. They will be getting here by tomorrow night... hope they bring beer. Lol.

I am chillaxing now - don't feel like doing anything else besides being happy about my dress. Hehe. ;)

And another moving update

It's done... my bed and some of my other stuff is out of the apartment. Now it's really dusty and incredibly dirty here... and my apartment already looks so empty - even though there is still so much stuff in here.

It started raining, no pouring, once we loaded the furniture in their car... it hasn't stopped ever since. I feel like I am getting depressed even more now.

Time to cheer up, get a coffee, return my book and BUY MY DRESS!

Julia and her boyfriend Andreas [aka Apes] will come over later to help me... hopefully Apes is gonna like my desk - I so wanna get rid of it. And he would be my number one choice to give it to.

"Wide Open Spaces" [Dixie Chicks]

Sorry, it's me again... since I don't have cable anymore and thus cannot watch retarded German TV, I am listening to music on my laptop - I haven't done that in ages. I actually found a playlist I created back in the days...

One of the songs is "Wide Open Spaces". This song is my Germarican-life-theme-song. LOL. Listening to it made me even more homesick and depressed now, but I think I also found the reason as to why I hate moving so much. I seriously think that I would feel so much better if I knew that I am giving up my apartment because I am done with my undergrad studies and about to start my grad studies in the US.

How awesome would it be to move to the States now...even if it is "only" for a little over 2 years. That'd be so awesome...and I wouldn't have to take any of these boxes I packed with me. I probably would only bring two suitcases and then go from there. Lol. Ooooookay, maybe I would have one or two boxes shipped to the States, but not more than that....

Why am I even talking about this? I don't know...

No more this and that.

Good morning, Germany... it is 9 am and I have been wide awake for almost 3 hours now. CRAZY. I only slept for like 2.5 hours. I am really nervous since this whole moving thing will be taken to the next level today: one of my High School friend's sister is stopping by to get my bed, two closets [I still don't know if this is even the right word for what it is... Americans don't have it. Hmmm.], a sideboard and some kitchen appliances. It's so weird to know that some of my belongings will forever be gone.

[BTW: Switchfoot is singing a song to me right now and every second word is "gone".]



I am sitting here on my couch, I have no coffee table anymore because my TV is "parking" on it. Speaking of which: I already disconnected my cable, so no more TV for me in this apartment. [I am addicted to it, what am I gonna do until Sunday??] My DVD player is disconnected as well... so I guess I will be even more addicted to my internet - thank goodness for laptops!! ;)

After the furniture will be out of my apartment around noon today, I will have to run into town to finally return my book to the library - I am already 3 weeks late, which is a lot of fun considering the fact that late fees are ridiculous around here. After that, I am planning on having a coffee and relaxing a little before I am heading to my new favorite store to buy MY DRESS.

Have I talked about my dress before? I don't even remember...I know it is a hot topic on facebook, but I am not sure if I talked about it on here. So sorry if I have. Anyway, I found THE dress for the wedding in November...oh my goodness, it is soooooooooooooo awesome. It is exactly what I had in mind. Unfortunately, they didn't have my size when I discovered it last week. But they ordered my size and hopefully it will fit me today. You know what the best part is: the dress is on sale!!! YES, it is PERFECT. I am in love with a dress, I really am.

Ugh, two more hours until they pick up the stuff... what am I doing until then? Okay, I could keep on packing but since my apartment is so tiny I am afraid they're gonna have major difficulties to carry everything out of my place without breaking anything else...

I wanna be done moving....

From Wedding Invitations and Obituaries...

I am still trying to put my past into boxes. I have now officially reached the point of HATING the process of moving. I am sitting here, at almost 2 am, surrounded by boxes, trash, holes in the walls ... I could go on and on. I started wondering why I thought I could do it all by myself. My friend Barb came over to help me for a little bit today and I know that the weekend will provide friendly helpers. But as of right now, I am trying to do it all by myself. Matthi is working, my parents are working, my friends are on their summer break, working or occupied with tons of other things. I guess this is just the perfect time to end one chapter of my life to start a new one... yeah, right, who am I kidding here???

Anyways, I know I will somehow manage to do it all. Right now, however, it just seems so far away. I feel like the deadline (July 31st) is approaching way too fast to be able to transport all the boxes, all of the furniture AND to be able to afford this move. I seriously can't believe how expensive all of this is... and I don't even wanna start thinking about how expensive the next semester will be due to commuting to college and stuff.

Oh well, I guess the hardest part, as of right now, is working my way through all of my belongings. I am seriously trying to throw as much stuff away as possible, but it's so hard sometimes. I don't want to throw precious memories away, even though I know that I can't use letters and presents and things like that anymore.

While sorting all of my letters I found the invitation to Lindsay's and Brent's wedding back in 2004. It was still addressed to "Miss Lilly Rompf" and it was so odd to read my maiden name (even though it was still my name in 2004). I'm so not used to reading or hearing my maiden name anymore. I mean, it will only be 3 years in September but I got so used to Mitteldorf (surprisingly everyone got used to it pretty fast except for my parents - LOL). It was kinda cool to read the invite again. I remember all I wanted was to attend that wedding and I begged my parents but I had exams (for my High School Diploma in Germany) around that time and there was NO WAY I could have made it. I'm still so sad about it though. Pam sent me tons of weddings pics via email and I will never forget what she wrote in that email: "So sad you couldn't make it. But we understand." That made me cry. I don't know, it really did. And, of course, looking at the pictures and seeing Linds - so happy and joyful on her very special day- and knowing I wasn't there to share it with her...ugh, that was hard. Still is. Linds sometimes jokes about how I never got her a wedding gift...she can be such a brat. LOL. Well, yeah, I never did... it's true. BUT who knows...maybe it will happen at some point. Hehe.

On a not so happy note: I also found a letter from Denise, Donna's (my host mother) daughter. She sent a letter to all of Donna's exchange students after Donna had passed away in 2004. I was kinda shocked to find it, to be honest. It's not that I had forgotten about it but I guess I just didn't wanna think about it for so long and that's why it totally slipped my mind. Horrible, I know. But I have never been able to "properly deal with death". Donna and I were never as close to each other as I would have hoped for. But still, I lived in her house and witnessed her suffering and I think part of the reason why I never changed host families was that I didn't want her to be alone. I mean, she wasn't alone, but no one was living with her and I just kinda always felt like she needed my help and it would be the most horrible thing to leave her in this situation. In the end, I guess, I did leave her. I still feel bad that I haven't told her things I wanted to tell her. (Well, that's probably always the case, I guess.)

I surely can't throw both of those letters away. Let's wait and see if I find some more interesting stuff - I am pretty sure I will. ;)

Packing, unpacking, packing... MOVING

By the end of July I will no longer have my own little apartment in Leipzig. :(

I am really sad because it was very first place... back in 2004 I just could not wait to finally move out of my parent's house. And now, five incredible years later, I have to move out again. Yes, I HAVE to. I have another semester of studying ahead of me but my finances don't allow me to have a place to stay for college. It really sucks and I don't even want to think about not living in Leipzig anymore. I mean, I will have to stay at someone else's place ever so often, but I am not gonna live there. I love living in Leipzig. It's my own little refuge and the city is just amazing and beautiful as well.

I already started packing because I only have 3 weeks to get it all done. The first two boxes safely arrived in Nordhausen yesterday and Matthias and I are trying to make room for all of my furniture and all my little, precious belongings. It's weird to call Nordhausen my home. I mean, we moved into our apartment in Nordhausen last year and it is OUR place and sometimes I do feel at home in Nordhausen. But I won't have my place to hide when Matthias gets on mynerves. Lol. I seriously did that from time to time- that way we just wouldn't get into fights. But starting in August I won't have that possibility anymore... I am soooooooooo sad!

It's gonna be really odd to sell some of my stuff to strangers or friends and then leave an empty apartment knowing that I will never be able to return.

It's sad, it really is. And I am scared. I don't know if I want to live with my hubby every day... LOL. I love him, but I don't think we can live together all the time. We'll see how things go.