The List

We've been marking things off our to-do-list the past week and it feels so good!
To-Do-List
1. Make residency rank list
Now that all of Jason's residency interview are over, he has to rank the hospitals from his favorite to his least favorite. The deadline to submit and/or make any changes to the list is February 23rd. He made his list and we agreed that he wouldn't look at it for a week. He could literally spend the next three weeks changing the order of his list...too many things to think about!
2. Start collecting boxes for moving day
Back in Missouri, I would have just asked local supermarkets for their empty boxes but not in California. They recycle and give their boxes extra special treatment so I struck out with the supermarkets. Where I scored though was with all the leftover Christmas totes. I bought multiple storage totes for cheap after the holidays...who cares if they are red and green, it just adds more excitement to my storage closets.
3. Eat the food in our cabinets before going out to buy other items
This one should "technically" be a partial cross out. I'm not going to lie...we've always struggled with this. I buy food that I think we will eat, or better yet, hope we will eat and we never do. With only 5 weeks left in California, we've been trying to make more of an effort to eat what is in our cabinets before running to the store.
4. Find a replacement for my position at work
I've found a perfect coordinator that can do a great job with the students and tutors. The Executive Board has to vote on her filling the position at the next board meeting. Once she is voted in, then I can start training her. Fun times!
5. Schedule a walk through on move out day with a member of the apartment office staff
March 4th at 3:30pm will be when we walk through our empty apartment and make sure that everything in the apartment is the way we found it when we moved in a year and a half ago. Once we do our walk through, we are hopping in the moving truck and making the 28+ hour drive back to Missouri.
6. Find a place to live in England
We have finally found a place to live in Epsom, Surrey for our six week stay in England. We kept going back and forth with accomodations at the hospital and a nearby hotel. Finally, we were able to reach an agreement with the hospital and we will be staying there. We saved quite a bit of money AND there is no commute for Jason. It will be more of dorm style living but it's only for six weeks. I can do just about anything to live in England for six weeks and be so close with so many amazing sites.
7. Notify the electric, gas and cable company of our last day so we can make sure to pay our bill and have our utilities shut off on our last day. I called this week to do this and they said that I had to wait 30 days before we want to cancel our services to notify them.
8. Eat at all a few of the yummy restaurants/ice cream parlors in town before saying adios.

We're making a pretty good dent in our to-do-list...still adding to the list on a daily basis but it's nice to see that we are actually making progress.