go figure

I never would have thought I'd be as happy to see Wisconsin asI was when my plain touched down yesterday. Waupun's a drag, and I'm most certainly not living here, but that's just one town. I never realized just how much I actually liked about my state until I left it. I'm no homebody, but everybody needs a base to work from, and I think this state is mine.

Vaguely introspective rambling aside, guess who's home visiting family for a week? We all had the option of a week off after convention, and with one thing and another (I'll go into *far* greater detail about that next post) I took it. The girls are in the area, but Mom and Dad are tooling around the north woods on a bike tour, so I'll see them Friday. I'm just glad to see family again, and to have breathing space of my own. I forgot how nice it is when everybody else is out of the house and it's just Bosco and I. Most of the windows are open, the AC isn't anywhere near being on, and there's a ceiling fan in the living room stirring the air. There's apartment and job hunting in my future, the former right now, the latter after I ring DVR. And you know what?

I'm happy. I slept like a baby last night, and woke up remembering just how nice it is to be *me* again, quirks, surliness under stress, meds, torch and all. I've missed that feeling. It's been a month and a half since I had it.

And Bosco's happy to be home too, of course. I bet he's picking at least a little of it up from me.

Full story, including what the hell I've been up to for the last month, later. Or sooner. Soon, anyway.