Last Year is Over

it's hard to believe it's been a year since the last time i came home. two years ago there's no conceivable way you could have told me i'd wait a year. 365 days. to make it back to georgia. and then again, here it is. 347 to be exact, but who's counting?

but i can honestly tell you there's no way in hell, barring unforeseen circumstances, that i will spend 10 whole days here again. no way. no how.

you move away from "Home" for a reason. and it's not that i've outgrown this place. there are definitely things here that we don't have in San Fran. but i can't deal with, well. trying to pop into a computer store to buy an adapter because i, like a dumb ass, left mine in san fran. and the guy deducing that i don't live here because of my clothes, and proceeds to spend 10 minutes telling me about his trip to SF. and about 3 minutes in, before i snapped, i realized "I'm from here. I know how to do this." this being random, idle chit chat. and don't get me started on the drivers. not that we don't have them there. it's just a different type of shitty driver. well, they're actually much better drivers but the courtesy, stopping to let people into the road. whatever. maybe it pisses me off because it makes me realize what a dick i am when i'm driving.

but moms got a new car. new cell phone. new computer coming. went to my dad's grave site. went to atlanta to have dinner w/ CJ, SC (Minn), OBD, and LS (ATL). saw the aunts and uncles and cute cousins and ate so much GD food i'm not sure if i can still wear the clothes i brought with me. as i type i'm eating a piece of my mother's home made red velvet cake. even the icing!

digressing, though, the other half of it taking this long to come home is how quickly 2007 went by! i mean, i still remember vividly the last thing i did at EMC (nothing...), that last drive over the bridge. my interviews at my current place. kickball. austin. JD and me at the summer of love. getting blotto at the yacht rock party. and now, new year's eve is like 4 days away. jebus.

at least this year wasn't a total write off. 2006 sucked for pretty much every reason known to man. 2007 things started realigning. 2008, who knows. let's hope things continue to fall into place. i've managed to write off a few "friends." make some new ones. i drive my car like 2x a week MAX. pretty sweet job. loving my neighborhood more and more each day. even if things remain status quo, it ain't so bad.