Take me home, country roads

Home is where my heart will always be, even if I have been away for almost a year.  It was such a wonderful feeling descending in Vancouver, seeing the mountains I've missed for so long, and the city I love.

I'm back home now, and enjoying this much-awaited doing-nothing-important break.  In a way, it almost feels as if I never left, since everything is pretty much the same as I left it - apart from the slight rearrangement of furniture in the living room and my parents' new glitzy coffee machine, microwave, and desktop computer.  It's possible I'm going to notice more changes (mostly in myself) in time.

My homecoming turned out well.  Nicola and Kailee, with signs, greeted me at YVR, and also surprised me two boxes of Samurai Sushi. YUM.  My surprise early arrival for my mom also turned out rather well, when the next afternoon she and my dad came to Nic's apartment for lunch; the door opened, and seeing her gaping mouth and shocked look on her face was pretty priceless.  

I'm about seven trips behind on my blog - whoops!  It turned out to be more difficult than I thought to stay on top of things, once my dad headed back to Canada with all of my things, including my laptop.  And of course, laziness also prevailed.  So over the next little while I'll try to write up belated postings on each place, and hopefully I won't leave anything out that I've forgotten.

In the meantime, it's back to the "normal life."  For me, an unemployed grad, that means looking for a job and figuring out where I will live.  Ah, the joys of being out of school (for now)!