A List of Things About Going Back

It's been 1 year, 9 months, and 1 day since July 25th, 2011, when I left America.

Here's a list of things about going back.

1. Haven't seen our families or pets since then and am super excited to see everyone

2. Haven't driven a car since then and am super excited to see my car again

3. I'm tired, I've been awake for over 24 hours because I never went to sleep last night, and my flight doesn't even leave for another 3 hours and 45 minutes. I'm sitting on the floor in the airport with my back against the wall and my computer plugged into an adapter plugged into the wall. I had to buy the adapter because Korean plugs are different and I didn't bring any adapters from our apartment sadface. It would be fantastic if I could just lay on the floor right here and take a nap. Then when I woke up my stuff might still be there. I'm bored.

4. Having Wal-Mart and a lot of superstores will be convenient, but I'll also spend a lot more money on stuff just because it's there, while here our PX was tiny and only had...not much. We had to order a lot of stuff online. Sometimes I just wouldn't get around to it, and I'd know the thing must not have been worth it. Wal-Mart = no waiting period = kinda bad

5. All the stuff we own that we've purchased over the course of our marriage that's in a storage unit probably getting eaten by mice right now? We get to see that stuff again! And probably throw away a lot of it because being over here with minimal stuff has taught us what we really need!

6. A new exciting thing is that we're going to be looking at houses to buy when we get back. Then I'll get to PAINT. In 5.5 years, Joe and I have only ever painted 1 room together. The rest of the time we were in rentals where we couldn't do that.

7. On North America the continent, the United States takes up a lot of room. In South Korea, it only takes up little tiny patches of room, and you have to walk to those little tiny patches for it to even kind of seem like you're in America, and even then, the America is diluted by Korean signs and employees. When we go home, everywhere we walk and drive and go will ALL be America. There will be English everywhere, and people who look like us, and I'll have to stop talking about things that you can't talk about in public, because the people around me will definitely be able to understand me instead of just maybe.

8. I'm worried about going back, because what if it's not that great in the USA, or too normal and boring? But that's a stupid thing to worry about because life can get normal and boring over here, too. I'm sad that our adventure is over, but really it's more "accomplished" than "over" because we got to see the things that were important to us. I just don't want to get home and be like "Wow, is this all there is?" But I'll probably like it.

I'm so tired. I think I have movies. I'll go do that now.