[girl & kat] Dragons cost extra

Just over three weeks until I head for Japan and leave America after 5
years working here. Well, okay, come November I'll be just over the
boarder in Canada but that's the Commonwealth! It's practically like
coming home! But with more snow.

So, almost all my possessions need to go in boxes and into storage
somewhere in Florida. I need to go to Japan with useful things such as
a toothbrush and my laptop. My car is going to one friend, my cat is
going to another and box of things that aren't needed in Japan but
might be needed before all the rest of my gubbins arrives in Canada is
going ... somewhere. Got that?

I picked out a moving company based on three quotes from large national
firms, since horror stories abounded about the smaller cheaper places.
The quotes were ... largely incomprehensible and almost entirely
incomparable. So really how much this will cost me remains a mystery. I
understand the problem; the 5 months of storage while I take off on an
Asian adventure and the t.b.a. destination address does mean the
companies can only estimate their costs. For instance, a 1 floor house
with no outer wall and a humongous driveway is considerably easier to
maneuver my desk into than a tower apartment with decaying wrought iron
outer stair, guarded by a dragon. I'm pretty sure dragons cost extra.

Still, the point is, I have signed up with a moving company. I have
visas, passport and plane tickets. I have a huge amount of pent up
excitement that causes my downstairs neighbour to complain about my
dancing round the room. I mean, it's almost organised.