Well, I thought that putting my teddy bear as my #1 item to
pack was the low point in my trip planning, but it turns out I was wrong. May 11, 2012 was my true low point. The #1 item on that packing list: Lizard.
It’s a mini replica of a tile lizard found in Guell Park in Barcelona.
Don’t get me wrong, I like the lizard. He’s cool and he reminds me of Spain, which
is always good because Spain is warm and fun, but would I regret leaving the
lizard behind? He didn’t make it on my
second packing list, so evidently not.
Not only did I have this on my list, but I also had three blankets on
there. I was actually prepared to bring
a separate suitcase just for my blankets.
On one hand it frightens me that I was ever that irrational, but on the
other hand I’m glad that I eventually came to the conclusion that 70% of the items
on that list were completely unnecessary and you’d have to be a bona fide
hoarder to want to bring them. I’m going
to say that I was most likely on a meth bender at the time. And by meth bender I probably mean a sugar
and/or McDonald’s high. It’s the only
explanation for that temporary insanity.
On the plus side, I’m almost done packing and I think about 90% of what
I’ve packed makes sense. Of course at
one point and time I actually wrote down that I wanted to pack an “orange
horse”, so who knows if my most recent and hopefully final pack job is actually
that of a normal human being.
*By orange horse I meant Pokey from Gumby. This doesn’t make it any less bizarre, but at least the orange horse is sort of an
action figure. I couldn't actually find Pokey (that is how little I care for the item that was previously #10 on my packing list), but this what he looks like.
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