Necessities

First off, I am not one for packing light.  What does studying abroad consist of?  Packing light.  So, when I finally decide to start packing it is going to be tough.  I can't bring along my Best Friend Bear (those of you who have been in my room or on my bed know of whom I'm speaking of), I can't bring my collection of hooded sweatshirts or my amazing piles of t-shirts.  I just can't.  As much as I would "love" to drag 3+ giant suitcases with me to London, I highly doubt that is allowed.  Yesterday while lying on my parents leather couch in Michigan, multi-tasking between watching the snow fall, the television, and the computer, I started to write myself a list of things I needed for my trip and what I was going to take along.  I am cutting back on t-shirts, I don't think many people in London where regular t-shirts; I decided to take 5-10.  Reasonable number, yes?  I hope so.  As for jeans, I have too many of those, but I'll take the ones that don't have holes in undisclosed areas, I swear I don't know how the holes got there.  The other things are nicer clothes that I'll bring along. 
While searching for an adapter at Target today, I came upon compression bags for packing.  I got so excited I bought a pack.  A family pack to be exact.  I hope they work and I am ready to try them; hopefully they live up to their expectations, from me at least.  We didn't get an adapter, so I believe my dad will go hunting for one with my mom and I this weekend.  Another, sort of, necessity would be a webcam.  I have siblings, and some friends, I would love to Skype with here in the states.  Of course when I tried to install the one I, recently, bought on January 1st, no such luck.  Well, I could install, I just could not install the camera portion.  Which is pretty much the main part.  After having Joe and William try for hours to get it fixed, nothing.  Not even installing my parents webcam would work.  We decided that a trip to best buy was in order, so they could hopefully figure out what was going on.  Something was definitely messed up with my usb drives.  After the very nice gentleman at the geek squad desk spent two hours looking at my computer, uninstalling and reinstalling drives, we figured out what was wrong.  Stupid Windows.  Something is wrong with it.  It will read what you put in the usb, but it just won't work.  Grrr indeed!  After talking with two very awesome friends of mine who work at 2fix, they believe they can fix my Windows problem, so off to the post office tomorrow to send in my 50 pound computer to school so they can fix it.  Awesome.  Hopefully it doesn't break on the way there, or even the way back.  And, hopefully they can fix it and not have to give me a new hard drive. 
This post kind of ended up as a way to get out my frustration on the stupid webcam, but none the less I have purchased some of the things I'll need for London.  Yet, I still have tons to do :s  Goodness gracious how the time flies.  19 days now, but still so much to do...Cheerio for now :)