Home Is Where the Heart Is...

For the past few years now I tend to get really homesick around this time of year.  I first noticed it during the second semester of my junior year of college.  I know the reasons for wanting to go home that semester...a lot of different emotions and a few different circumstances just piled up all at once, and I needed to get outta there!  But I've had the feeling of needing to go home and get out of my current surroundings for 3 years now at pretty much the same time each year with nowhere near the same circumstances.  I really don't mind living in Jackson.  I've met some great people, I love the church I've been going to, and my internship is going well.  But I still just wanna leave!  What is up with me?!

Maybe it's due to the weather change:  it's finally starting to become spring.  The weather is warmer, the sun it out longer, and it makes me want to get up and go.  But being farther from home and all the friends I left makes it pretty much impossible to have a good weekend getaway.  Plus having this little furball to take care of makes it a little more difficult to travel...he's so needy!  Maybe my homesickness (is that a word?) is due to the fact that there's nothing to do here unless you want to spend money:  eating out, shopping, going to the movies...that's pretty much it.  And since I am a poor college student that focuses on surviving rather than having fun, I don't like spending a lot of money right now.  Or maybe, as pathetic as this might be, it's because of all the mushy gushy love time going on:  Valentines Day, people getting engaged, wedding season coming up...it's all a little overwhelming when you don't have a "special someone" of your own.  Being around friends and family makes it all a little more manageable, and when I don't have that, I miss it.

Enough of the depression and loneliness.  I'm almost done with my internship!  And it's gone really well!  I've gotten lots of positive feedback, but I've also learned a lot while I've been here.  I should finish my last day on March 26th.  I'll move out of my apartment the 31st with the help of mom and dad.  Then it's a quick stop at home to pick up Laura's stuff, and then it's off to Springfield again!  Mom and Laura found an apartment that's about 10 minutes from both Drury and MSU.  And the really nice thing is that they offer a shuttle service to MSU, which means Laura doesn't have to worry about parking when she gets on campus.  It looks like a really nice apartment, and I'm ready to be back in the Springfield area.  And the weather has been great this week!  The snow has finally melted, and I don't freeze my tookus off every time I step outside.

Well, I guess it's time to stop rambling for now.  I need to clean the apartment, do some laundry, make a quick run to the store for some groceries, and maybe work out...maybe.   Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend! 5 and a half more weeks and I'm home!!!

"Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room." ~Harriet Beecher Stowe