I KNOW.
It's been like 92,374 days since I have updated you all. Sorry! :(
I will make this one good, promise. So since I last blogged, Danny and Ricky have decided to go back to Chicago. We hear from them every couple of days and they are happy to be back! On the other hand, we were very sad to see them go. This would be one of those rare occasions that I cry :( They made the past few weeks living out West truly feel like "home." The weekend that they left I had the opportunity to ski with them for two days. I gave them both my buddy pass and we had an awesome weekend in the mountains. I have discovered that although I really do love to ski, I have become quite the fan of Après-ski afterward! Ricky left his snowboard gear in my car and I am holding it hostage until we see them again. Next year my first trip will be to Chicago! We love you guys!
After the boys left it took us a while to get back to normal around the house. EA and I invited all of our MS friends over to the house on Thanksgiving for dinner. It was an amazing collection of family recipes, good wine, and great friends. I made my family's spinach and artichoke casserole and EA made sweet potato pie! The rest of the food that our friends brought was REALLY good. I definitely missed being home for my usual Thanksgiving routine, but it was nice to have a new tradition in Colorado. We were both in the bed and passed out by 9 that night, too! Kayla got to go home for Thanksgiving, so some of you might have seen her while she was there! :)
I have so many exciting things coming up so it has been easy to stay busy. My birthday is Sunday (The 3rd anniversary of my 21st) and Kayla and I are flying to St. Louis to spend the weekend. This will be my first commercial flight in like 13 years. This is going to be very, very bad. Flying scares me to death in the first place and then they want me to be there an hour and a half early so I can check my bags and get felt up by the TSA? Seriously. Thank goodness Kayla will be with me. I don't know how I'm going to manage to get home by myself at Christmas. You would think a 24 year old could do something that simple, but really these kids that are ten years younger than me have this crap figured out much better than I do. I can barely navigate my way around Greenville when I'm home. The Houston airport is going to be a much larger task for me.. It is one I hope I figure out successfully... sans Xanax.
Speaking of keeping busy... That is my next trip coming up! I will be home the 22nd to the 27th and I cannot wait. I actually miss home. Of course you already know that I miss the people at home, but I also miss the Delta in general and the ridiculous things we do to keep ourselves entertained there as well. (All of the things that I despised and had grown tired of at the time that I left home.) My brother and Mama are coming to pick me up at the airport. I have also recruited a few others that I cannot wait to see for the ride back home from Jackson that night (+ beer) to welcome me home!
Which brings me to my next point: Being out west for 4 months and longing to be home with my friends and family has really taken a toll on me that I wasn't aware of until I planned this trip. I couldn't wait to leave the South and get away and start something new for myself, which I successfully did! However, the closer I get to being able to go home, the more anxious and crazy I feel. Maybe I just need to recharge in the Delta and to be with the ones that mean the most to me before I start the new year in Colorado.. Or maybe my being unaware of my longing for home has created another crossroads in my life prematurely. Or maybe I should do a better job at persuading my Mississippi people to move out WEST! It is definitely something that I need to be thinking about.. As 6 months will fly by just like 4 months did. For now I am more than thankful to be in the mountains, a place that holds a very special place in my heart. But I can't flippin' wait to hang out with my mom, Jesse, Grandmother, and of course my very special Delta crew that I spent every second with, literally, before I moved. They were the last people that I saw the morning I left and the first that I want to see when I land!
I hope this was a good update! So little and so much can happen in two weeks time. We have really been doing our usual day-to-day "real life" routine. We work, come home, relax, and do it all over again the next day. We especially live for the weekends, drive to the mountains to ski/snowboard and enjoy the scenery, and come back a little sad on Sunday. After all, isn't that why anyone would move to the Rockies? :)
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