During this whole process of moving abroad and packing up the house, the tangents I find myself taking during the day are mind boggling. As I'm cleaning out the study/office, working on the broader task of getting as much garbage out of the house on garbage day as possible. It's amazing just how quickly and how much of my carefully sorted bits and nuggets of nostalgia don't make the short list. "Everything must go," is my mantra, as I stuff these things into the garbage or set aside for the good will pile. Today, I found myself neatly organizing hundreds of photos into albums, getting wistful and walking down memory lane, giving albums titles such as, "The Adventures of Mark and Deb in Photographs, vol. 1" And although I missed National Roll Your Change Week back in October, I gathered our jars and piles of coins and rolled over $140 of change. I also have a large mason jar jam packed with pennies that I plan to take to one of those cheesy coin processing machines as I have lost patience and interest, and am out of penny rollers, in rolling said pennies. So much to do, and I'm playing with the minutia details of photos and coins. Greenbean at Grandma's Deb hiking in Switzerland