Storage Wars

No, I'm not trying to buy somebody else's storage unit; that isn't allowed in Japan because of privacy laws. No, this is my fight with my storage room.

Next week, Hannah and I are going on a little trip, so I wanted to find one of the suitcases we have. I glimpsed one when I was upstairs the other week. I thought it would be easy to find it. But between me seeing it and today, things have been moved around a lot!

The other week, David and Mikey bought the old chest of drawers down for me. I wrote about that here, Jackie's Japan Journal: A New Chest Of Drawers. To get to the chest of drawers, they had to move a lot of boxes. They just randomly stacked them, with smaller boxes on the bottom (why?). The suitcase was in that general area!

Hannah and I spent a good 20 minutes moving boxes. sweeping up the trash on the floor and trying to organise one little corner. I found the suitcase, but we aren't sure we are going to use it as it's a bit bigger than I thought and might be difficult to lift on and off trains and buses. Hannah's suitcase might be big enough; we will see.

While I was moving some of these boxes, I found some of my old clothes, still looking new. A few tops and a pair of trousers. I decided to bring them down as they might fit, or at least be close to fit, another incentive to lose some weight. I know I said yesterday that I wanted to get things out of my bedroom, but I do need a few new tops for summer. If these fit, I can save a bit of money; if they don't, I can throw them away.

Another thing Hannah and I did this afternoon was to edit a few older videos together. Actually, Hannah edited it, and I watched, trying to learn how to do editing.

I never intended to start a YouTube channel, but I can't upload videos from my computer to this blog any other way. There is probably a way, but this was the easiest choice for me.

Here is the video Hannah made. It's very good for a first try!

I really like how she put the text on. I tried to do it, but got frustrated with the process.