A Wicked Case of Homesick Blues?

Things #2

It's weird, but I think what I'd like to be doing right now is helping out in the garden back home. This has never happened before. Usually, whenever my mother invites me to lend a hand in the yard I run for the hills, move away, or stick out my hand for payment. But right now, that sounds like a sweet deal... along with the usual benefits of living with said parentals.

Someone else cooks, fun farm animals abound (including not one but TWO Border Collies), you can talk with people you know without the usual "let's be friends" tactics that I can never understand, and for all the plainess and predictability it really feels like a holiday.

So here's to helping out at home, another thing that, regrettably, I'm not doing.