Packing magic

Posted Friday, August 10, 2007 6:22 PM

The good news is I have not been buried beneath the boxes in my room.

The bad news is they are multiplying during the night and I think might be planning a takeover of the eastern part of my bedroom.

If I was Merlin in "The Sword in the Stone,"  or Eglantine Prince in "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" or Mary Poppins , I could probably make everything pack and unpack itself with the snap of my fingers.

But I'm not quite that fortunate.

I was under the mistaken impression that I didn't have very much to pack. I honestly have no idea where so much junk came from -- I have thrown out at least six bags of unwanted stuff and packed up more than a dozen boxes of all shapes and sizes.

Last night I luckily remembered that I had a couple of DVDs that weren't packed up by Adam: I had to choose between "The Great Muppet Caper," the first season of "Murder She Wrote" and the sixth season of "Full House." I picked "Full House" because I really like the episode where they all go to Walt Disney World.

Tonight I'm conquering toiletries and will probably watch "Murder She Wrote." There is no connection between the two -- but I can watch it for 3-plus hours without changing the DVD, unlike the much shorter "Great Muppet Caper."

I know I'll eventually get all of my things to Adam's the question is: how many days will it take me to unpack it all? Since I'm taking off so many days for the wedding, I can't take any days off to unpack. So between work, meetings, doctors appointments and wedding related insanity, I hope to have everything unpacked by Rosh Hashanah.

Wonder if that Substitutiary Locomotion spell would work (it makes objects move on their own and defeats Nazis at the same time): Treguna Mekoides Tracorum Satis Dee.

Nope, nothing. Darn.