I made it home Wednesday night, after breakfast at the Finnish Bistro with my college roommate, Amanda, and her husband, Joe. I arrived home at eight and unpacked, unpacked, unpacked. What I don’t need is being stored in my brother’s closet [he doesn’t need it since he’s in alaska placing second in ski/bike/kayak/run races with his girlfriend]; the things I do need have been put away and organized in my bedroom. It’s starting to feel like I live here again.
Just to clue you, my blog friends, in, here is the place I will be blogging from for the next month, maybe two. This is “home,” or at least has been since I was sixteen and we built/moved down the road from the farm. You can picture me in the left upstairs window, blogging to you. [Actually, don’t picture that. Creepy.]
Since I’ve arrived home and settled in, you may wonder how I’ve been spending my time. [Or maybe you don’t really care. If that is the case, I advise you to stop reading now.] Unpacking and organizing took its fair amount of yesterday. I have also baked four cakes [in anticipation of graduation party cakepops], cleaned the house, mopped the porch, went grocery shopping, cooked evening meals, a couple loads of laundry, bought fabric for a summer quilt [oxymoron?] and discovered that the tv show How I Met Your Mother is on Lifetime at least three times a day. I may begin to plan my days around it.
I also hung up my hammock this afternoon and may or may not have taken a brief power nap as the wind [we live on a hill. it’s always windy here.] rocked me to sleep. I plan on spending a bit of time in the hammock tomorrow, beginning a new book. [The Help is next on my list and it’s already loaded on my kindle after a recommendation and seeing the preview for the movie to be released soon.]
While I do find myself missing my friends and the Cities life and while my last long list was about what I would miss in St.Paul, here is a beginning list of the current joys of being home:
1. Four country music radio presets in my car. [compared to a measly one in the Cities]
2. My mom pays for the groceries.
3. Campfires. [My sister and I successfully started one the other night.]
4. Hammock.
5. No noisy neighbors/noisy parking lot/noisy children. [quiet!]
6. A house = space and open window air flow.
7. Satellite television.
8. Family adventures. [already been shopping with Miss Molly … always an adventure with that fifth grade cousin!]
9. I spend less money. [no Starbucks drive-thru nearby, no happy hour with friends, etc.]
there's no place like gnome. 
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