things i have learned so far in packing for this move

a series of observations

• I have (had) enough clothes to fill twelve to eighteen 18-gallon Rubbermaids.
• I have nearly the same amount of cat hair tumbleweeds rolling around my closets and corners.
  
• Cats will recoil in horror and then flee upon encountering orange extract as though you were coming at them with hatchets and tear gas.
• No one needs or wants CD racks anymore.
• Craigslist is a complete crapshoot, both on the selling and searching ends. You are likely to encounter both morons and a-holes.
• I will never own a white shag rug again. Not a white rug, not a shag rug. I suggest anyone who has pets, or actually lives in their home doesn't either. Crumbs and hair will impregnate the depths of the pile if you do, and gross you out to all extent when you go to spend a couple painful hours vacuuming on hands and knees.
  
• No matter how many grocery/shopping bags one accrues over their stay in a home, they will use them all up moving.
• I hoard scented tea lights, fancy soap, and almond extract.
• A force larger than myself prevents me from getting rid of my university notes and textbooks, and design school art supplies.
• 60% of my wardrobe is black.
• By the looks of my catalogs of museum stubs, old newspaper clippings, and concert tickets, someday I will have the largest collection of scrapbooks one adult ever amassed.
  
• Kind and thoughtful friends and family are invaluable.
• Late night television did not cease to exist after college when I ceased to be able to stay up that late.
• Manually removing cat hair from a hundred balls of stockings after cats have nested in the storage basket all summer is one of the least pleasant tasks ever.
  
• I actually despise all 26 boxes of my books.