Square pegs

Last night we purchased our first ariline tickets for a weekend trip. We'll be going to Prague on June 22 through the 25th. I can't wait! The sale on airfare was too good to pass up, and both of us have been wanting to visit there. I have to admit that I spend a sick amount of time planning holiday itineraries on line and day dreaming about all of the possiblities. How can't you though? I'm still hoping that we'll wake up on a Saturday morning and just decide to go to Brussels for the night. It's about two hours away on the train, totally doable for an overnighter.
The Arcade Fire is playing a show in Utrecht, which just may be the first trip outside of Amsterdam that we've taken. The show is sold out, but through some people I work with I've discovered the joys of what seems to be the Dutch equivalent of Craigslist. We can still buy tix.
The apartment has gone through some massive growing pains in the last two weeks. After seeing the lot of stuff that we brought right there in front of our faces and realizing that there is nowhere to put any of it, we had a big wake up call. Emotions ran from "there's no rush, we've got all the time in the world", to "what the hell are we going to do with all of this shit?". Needless to say we did ALOT of throwing out. I thought I had gotten rid of soooooo much stuff prior to making the move, but compared to what I pitched here, it was nothing. It feels great. The realization of wants and needs and material excess really clicks in moments like these. I have to say that it feels nice to scale back and live with the essentials.
We have (and I say that loosely as Matthew has done 90% of the work) managed to fit the things we chose to bring along with us into this new life. So far all is well!