home at last

finally moved home today... we left on October 27, seventy-eight days ago; we lived in the hospital for three weeks and the apartment for eight weeks. we thank our lucky stars for all the people whose kindness, generosity, reliability, etc. made all this possible.

things i will miss about the apartment:

• covered, heated parking garage (s'posed to be zero all week this week)(degrees, outside—for all you non-locals)
  
• no piles of clutter (to remind me of years of mental dysfunction and a lot of work to do to go through it all—my therapist suggested a dumpster)
  
• not having to worry about all the home-owner-y chores (gotta mulch that iris—and is there something wrong with the water softener?)
  
• being so close to stores and friends (so easy to pop out for a midnight snack or an impulsive get-together!)

things i'm glad to be reunited with, here at home:

• dogs!!!! they're so happy to have us home (and so interested in everything we've brought with us... "what's that mom, huh, huh, can I have it? can I? what about that? what's in here? oooh, this smells good...")
  
• front-loading washer that won't shred our clothing (can finally wash all our sweaters! they need it!—sorry, tmi!)
  
• space...between us and the neighbors... (no more muffling our faces in pillows during mango chutney ;-) )
  
• printers! (now i can finally finish Miri's xmas present—and next time we go on a trip, the confirmations #s and maps etc. won't be scrawled on the back of an envelope)
  
• our satellite DVR, which has faithfully recorded all the episodes of "Six Feet Under" that have been showing on Bravo for the last three months (plus some random "Benny Hill" episodes--not sure how that happened!)
  
• just... being... HOME. you know what i mean. *big peaceful sigh*

Hope you're having a good weekend!