Laundry. If you don't know how to do it now, learn before you turn all your underwear and socks pink. Before, NOT after.

The whole packing for college thing is quite stressful, I must say. I've got just under 6 full days until I leave and 5 1/2 before all my crap has to be packed and loaded in the car. It is completely overwhelming. I still haven't bought any school supplies, toiletries, towels, or a bathrobe.

I'm in the midst of thousands of pounds of laundry (not really) and because I do not possess the ability to dress myself well more than 50% of the time (really), I have a stylist, or as she prefers, personal fashion guru. Really, it's one of my friends who'll be a senior in high school this year who tells me what to wear when I have an important event to go to or an important boy to impress. In order for her to remember the thousands of pieces (not really but it feels that way) I have in my wardrobe, I'm taking pictures of everything and using flickr to host them, so she can just flip through and tell me which scarf I should wear with which shirt. It means that after everything's come out of the dryer it must be sorted by category, photographed, uploaded into my computer, renamed and categorized, then posted to both my Closet iPhone app and Flickr. It's quite a process.

So far I've washed, dried, photographed and folded my purple/navy, pink/orange/yellow and teal/aqua/green/blue loads. My jeans are in the dryer and the blacks/dark greys are in the washer. That means the ONLY load left to begin the washing process is the whites/light greys. Exciting, no?

In case you were wondering why I separate my clothes into such distinct color groups, it's not because I'm Adrian Monk and must wash my clothes with their like colors only. I actually just have so many clothes that when I wash a large volume of them, I have to do that many loads anyway so I figure I might as well separate. If it's a small load, I just throw them all in together. It's an awful habit, I know and my best friend and I both do it. We're so bad but we've never actually ruined anything so we see no reason to change.