thoughts on packing

so i am in the process of composing a list of things to bring to college. it's a little more difficult than your average move. when one's family moves to another house, one simply brings everything that they own. there is nothing left behind. however, when packing for college there are plenty of things i will not need. there are also a rather large number of things that i will want/need that never even occurred to me. like nail polish. i love to paint my nails. it is one of those little things that just kind of makes me happy. but i didn't even think about putting it on the list. things like a garbage can and bringing my own coffee cups never even occurred to me. thankfully, my sister is about to be a junior in college, so she thought of all the things i hadn't. she thought of even more because her college is 7 hours away. she can't just jaunt back for a day to have lunch and pick up something she forgot.

it's a little strange to think about all the things i use in a day without even thinking about them.  a lamp. kleenex. a coffeemaker. all things that i use frequently. also all things that i will now have to provide for myself. they seem so insignificant when i have them, but if i didn't, i'm sure they would be significant indeed.

another funny thing about packing for college is trying to figure out exactly how i'm going to get everything on my list (which is truly massive) actually to my dorm room. i don't have much in the way of luggage so i think i'll need to go shopping for totes or something of that nature.

oh yeah, so i'm typing this on my new laptop that my lovely mother bought for me for college :D
i'm enjoying it immensely! now i can watch vlogbrothers videos from the comfort of the couch instead of the hard wooden chair that sits at the computer desk :) the reason this is a significant change for me is that since i have discovered vlogbrothers (a week or two ago) i have decided to go back and watch the archives. for a year they made videos every single weekday. that's alot of videos. that's not even including the other 3 years of videos. i'm enjoying it very much though :)