March 31, 2007
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What a week!
I can’t believe it’s been a week since I updated. It’s been a fairly busy week. Full of teen drama and angst that fills so much of our daily lives. In addition to that my landlord returned to the island. He showed up at my house, drunk and belligerent and very antagonistic. I eventually told him not to return to my house unless hubby was home, and slammed the door on him. Until this we have had a great relationship with our landlord who I will from know on call him Crazy dude. Some of you who have been reading for awhile will remember that I homeschooled “crazy dude’s” son for a a few months. Crazy dude has a history of incidents and activities that lead me to believe he is crazy. His ex-wife is little better and our fallout on Tuesday was a result of their less than perfect relationship and my unfortunate acquaintance with them both. Crazy dude did call and apologize later that day, but I still want absolutely nothing to do with him!! Thankfully, we are working with Crazy Dude’s brother concerning the house since he became the trustee of their mom’s estate in Dec.
So… we’ve been dealing with teen drama and angst, and middle aged crazy man drama and angst. To top that off I’m trying to get ready for a move. My to-do list is so long it’s hard to even contemplate getting it all done.
I’m going to miss Maui. Tremendously.
On the other hand, I feel like I’m finally going home. Having been born in New Mexico and grown up in both NM and Arizona, I miss the Southwest terribly when I’m away. I’ve loved just about every place we’ve lived, found the good and embraced it, but it was never really “home”. This time it feels like I’m going home. I’m so excited! To top that off I’m really ready to get back to the mainland and all the conveniences that I’ve been missing. The best part of it all is that I’ll be close to family and friends. I guess, when it comes right down to it, that’s what makes it home. Not the mountains which soothe my soul, not the excitement of lightening storms and monsoons, the gorgeous sunsets, and the fantastic New Mexican food, although all that, on their own is definitely worth the move!
To top that off, after years and years of following hubby around via the Air Force, it’s finally time to live in one place, to put down roots, to accomplish the many things we’ve been planning and waiting for.It’s here. The time for “us”. To focus on the things we want, the dreams we have. It’s our time now. It almost seems to big to take it all in. Like the fulfillment of a long held dream that you almost never really expect to come true. The time has finally come. And all of sudden, I’m both excited and apprehensive.
Only time will tell if my dreams are about to come true. I will let you know as soon as I know.
Question of the day:
Where is home – and why?
Comments (15)
I am happy for you that you get to move back home.
Home for me is wherever my hubby is. I grew up in a very small town. When I moved to the city after we got married I didn’t miss ”home” that much and now having been gone for almost 23 years it doesn’t seem homey when I go to visit my mom. Hubby and I have lived in the city, to the north of the city and now in a small village to the south of the city. Each has a significance to me…..the first is where I brought my children home when they were born, the second is where they had their formative years. We have been in this home the longest and it seems most like home to me. We’ll probably end up staying here until we go into a retirement home! LOL!
Lots going on for you………….you are in our prayers and be careful with that landlord……………hugs.:big-smile:
Teen angst… ageless, timeless, old as time itself I suspect.
Yeah that previous commenter concerns me too. This is the kind of stuff I usually see on Myspace, but not on Xanga. I think I need to figure out how to report her.
Sorry you have to leave Maui, but going home is cool too.
Hugs, Tricia :big-smile:
good to hear you are going home
teen angst here too
Home is Ohio for me…. much for your reasons, families and friends and things I am familiar with. I’ve never lived away from here. I would miss Mauii too….. lol! But you can always visit!
I am sure when not there on a vacation the island can seem very small.
Maine is home for me, I’ve left a few times but always came back.
I hope you find home fulfilling. Good luck with all that. How soon before you move?
Somehow I missed the pictures, they are FABULOUS! I had just seen some of that same scenery on TV and your shots of the canyon are more colorful than theirs! Excellent and thanks for sharing.
Home…funny I say, I have to go home and I mean the place where I live at the current time. But HOME is where my Mama is now, the house that my grandfather built and the first home they took me to after I was born. I laughed and told them it was imprinted on me! My Mamoo, whom I adored lived there, my parents lived there later, and now Mama is there. Some day we will retire there, in the country on land that means so much to me, in a house that just reminds me of so much love, it HAS to be HOME!
This also reminds me of how my grandmother, my beloved Mamoo, begged to go home in the last few years of her life. We would patiently tell her she WAS home, but I wondered if home to her was the place she grew up…or if when you are in the last stage of your life, home means Heaven.
About the Pern books, I just cried when I read Moreta. I should re-read them all again too. They are SO good. Have a great weekend!
be careful with crazy dude, I think you did the right thing telling him not to come back unless your dh was home :big-smile:
This is just a truly beautiful, moving, and funny post. You had me laughing and were warming my heart through and through. The teenage angst and drama will someday cease, the crazy landlord will someday be a distant memory, but the prospect of being home makes me just want to cheer for you! No one said it better than Dorothy in the Wizard of Ox… “There’s no place like home.”
Home is Kansas for me. I spent my childhood here and most of my relatives are still here. (if not, they always come back to visit.) After my husbands military stint, we came back home to Kansas and I look forward to when you get back to the southwest. I understand you completely.
Oh, I haven’t read that book yet. I think my favorite so far of all of them was the very first one, but maybe that’s just because it WAS the first one.
How exciting to be moving! How awful to have to move! : ) I cannot imagine it. I think I would just have to leave it all, at this point!
I’ve lived in the same town my whole life, and I know it like no other place, but I could leave here, as long as I had my husband with me.
I don’t blame you for not wanting to deal with that guy. Home for me is Minnesota, I have lived here all my life except for 3 months in Kansas. I have lived in this town for nearly 22 yrs. I guess it is home because of family, and friends, old stomping grounds.
Hope the landlord doesn’t give you any more trouble.
Home is where my hubby is. :wink-wink:
I guess I am a Southern California girl born and bred. I have lived here my whole life. Everywhere we visit, we ask if we could make that place home, it’s always no…so far.
I keep looking though. We have really bad air here and everyone keeps moving here crowding up the joint. I always say…”you’re welcome to come visit, leave your tourist dollars, now go home.” Nobody listens to me. We are quickly becoming Northern Mexico. Sorry I am ranting on your blog.I am sure the natives of Maui feel the same way. :steamed: :rollingeyes: So sorry, you did ask. :big-smile:emlee
I posted a pic of the sectional!
ryc: thank you! (for the comment on the post)
and I can’t wait to get the sectional!!
My family is my home. I’ve moved around a lot…but my family has been the one constant. I feel lost without them. Most of them are in New Jersey and England…so those are the places I miss the most.
I love Eddie…he was the main reason I started watching The Riches!
Good luck with the land lord!