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Cleaning house.

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We are in the home stretch of our time here in Turkmenistan, which is to put it bluntly, awesome . So awesome in fact, that I want to do a little happy dance every time I think about it. As you can expect, we have been preparing for our departure. This involves me going through our belongings and tossing the things we don't want or need before people come by to inventory our stuff for the movers. That is ostensibly, what I have been doing for the past month. Yet somehow this place still looks like I haven't tossed anything out. Which isn't true- I have about five trash bags filled with shredded papers, and two bags of clothes destined for the trash. There are small electronics I still need to toss (broken VCR, broken vacuum sealer- I see you) as well, but there's still more tossing to do. All our remaining consumables (save for the spices and select dry goods) will not be coming with us. The car supplies (oil) won't be going with us. Neither will the remaining bag