Home is where the stuff is.

It has become pretty obvious to the family and friends we've been around...
probably to the point of annoying...
We need a home.  We need it bad!

We are talking basics...no deep metaphors...walls and a floor filled with our own personal stuff!
After living a lifestyle which is the antithesis to Hoarders with two pairs of underwear and a tooth brush on our backs, we almost need some kind of coaxing therapy just to start purchasing things again.  Even Williams Sonoma has lost its sparkle to me.  It's been so long since I've had my own bathroom, I don't even know where my make up is anymore!  Do I even have make up?

We are getting a little weird!  Walking in circles, catatonic states, wearing purple everyday...ok, not that bad, but seriously!  Examples?  Oh yeah, I've got em....

Walking into kitchen sections of department stores where we don't necessarily want to buy anything, we just mourn our boxed up old friends.  "Rodolfo, look at this slicer/chopper/grinder/holder/place mat/thing a ma jig, "We had one of these, right?  Doesn't this look just like ours?!?  Where is ours?  Did we throw it away?"  and then we kind of look at each other puzzled, because we can't remember and walk away confused.

"Do you smell a barbecue?  We have a grill don't we?!?  Where is it again?"

"Wow!  I really love this couch!  Hmmm...I wonder when we are going to have a couch...."

and....repeat!
Over and over again it comes up here and there...we are so home sick for a home!

We boxed up and stored/sold most of our belongings in mid December of 2009...we will be moving into our sublet/furnished apartment later this week which will make it a year and a half since we lived together somewhere that was ours alone with our own things.  For me, to go without my dish set, mixing bowls and matching rubbermaid tupperware set, this is a very long time!  (Gosh, I sound so American!)

our beloved pet Paz rejoining the family soon!

We are pretty sure we have some stuff around, we just have NO CLUE where or what anything is anymore!  It's like a really, really big birthday present waiting to be opened, but about 300 presents at once, because we can't remember what we have!  Talk about exciting!

It's going to be so much fun to meet and greet all of our old things and see what's made it through....consolidating not only our things, but our minds into a new reality.  Coming from a life style where owning less meant moving faster, this is definitely going to be an interesting transition!