iMiss

Every 90 days or so I get homesick. Today marks the 90th day I’ve been away from home- so I wasn’t really THAT surprised when I woke up in a pissy mood and wanted to just crawl up in a ball and cry all day while looking at pictures of my cat. It doesn’t help that the laundry lady lost my TWO (2!!!) hankies. Who loses hankies?! Especially hand-made ones! 🙁

I only have 98 items now. 

Don’t get me wrong, I love traveling. I love experiencing all flavors of new things! But I miss certain things that make home “home”. Which is hilarious, because I consider the entire country of USofA to be “home”… Not just a city or state.

With that said, here are my steps to curbing homesickness:

1) Write a list of things that you miss.

2) Go out that week and find those things.

That’s it.

So- with that said, this is my list. It’s huge.

1. Golden Grahams (Thanks Amy…..)
2. Swing dancing (Jive)
3. Fast internet. (anything faster than a 1mb connection is considered fast)
4. Sonic limeades (with the crushed pebble ice!)
5. Nachos
6. Chuy’s Chuychunga (with a real margarita)
7. Driving towards Rainier, in the spitting rain, with my windows slightly rolled down, listening to shitty music.
8. My Cat, La Puta. <3 <3 <3
9. Texting
10. Durian Bubble Tea
11. Dirty Chai’s (done properly…. not tasting like milk and not made with powder).
12. Blue Moon beer, Dominos pizza, and America’s Next Top Hooker on a Friday night.
13. PUMPKIN…. EVERYTHING…. (It’s flippin’ October and I haven’t had a pumpkin anything yet! Can you believe it?!)
14. Hearing the wind blow through the leaves, hearing them crackle and fall off a tree. (also, jumping in piles of leaves with my fathead brother).
15. Downloading and listening to podcasts all day.
16. My aerial silk/dance classes
17. Hanging out with my friends and laughing so hard my sides hurt. <3

When I first started traveling, I would make lists like this every week (I called them my ‘iMiss lists’). At first they were filled with random petty things like: Hot showers, texting, claritin, English speakers, brussels sprouts, gelato, electric, etc.

My list is getting more specific. It’s funny how your perception/priorities change.

What do you miss when you travel?