I am sitting at my desk, tired of dealing with car dealerships, service managers, plumbers, preschool, scheduling, cleaning my house, doing laundry, and starting my January get-organized list. I really wish we were back at "home" getting ready to go on a bike ride with all of my super cool family on all of by brother-in-law's super cool bikes.Sidenote: David doesn't like it when I refer to Monrovia as home since he didn't grow up there and we obviously have a family of our own and a permanent address that is, unfortunately, not in Monrovia. Does that happen to anyone else?
Oh to be on vacation more than a few times a year.
I am obviously suffering from mid-January-tired of the rain and the plumbers in my backyard and the plastic sheeting over my windows- blues.
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if it makes you feel any better (and i doubt it does), the high lately has been in the 20s and the humidity + wind makes it feel like 2.
but i agree. i also refer to monrovia as home. but then when i'm in monrovia i say we're going home when we're flying back to va.
I also refer to Monrovia as "home," and even get ever-so-slightly possessive of it when other people (who did not grow up there) gush over its cuteness!
Geez...
I am so sick of this weather. I want to move away STAT! seriously. get me out of this rain!!!!!!!!!
Hey! I have the same blues! Let's plan a girl's brunch Friday and drown our sorrows in something delicious.
Mandy-it must be our joint issues with plumbers in the backyard and plastic sheeting on the windows:)
Totally up for brunch!
Linda- If you move, I'll move.
Hannah and Ashley- I guess it's true- Monrovia will always feel like "home" more or less.
People used to ask me where I was from and I'd say LA - and your dad would say, "Barb, they want to know where you live - not where you were born!!"
I'm glad you call Monrovia home - it's a great place to call home - daily or a few times a year!!
And I get your drift Ashley - what do these gawkers really know about Monrovia??
Jeff used to hate it when I called Monrovia "home" when we lived else where, and he grew up here. But it is a really "home-y" little town, even if you didn't grow up here. It is a little weird that it has such a small town feel, being as close as it is to LA.
I have to admit, I don't say home like you do (where Jeff is is home), but I am tired of all the things I've been dealing with. So I understand a little.
I am not saying that I am unhappy where I live, I'm not! But, I just think that I will always think of Monrovia as "home". Maybe it will change, though, when we have more years of being in a permanent living situation. 3 year stints don't lend itself to feeling like you have a long-term home base:)
I've lived in Texas for 12 1/2 years. But I still don't call myself a texan. Still have a hard time callling this home. I used to call Utah home. But don't anymore. (Although I still think it sometimes.) I think that because this is not the place I want to live forever, it isn't home to me. Someday I'll find that "home" place.
I have lots of homes. I call Monrovia and Salt Lake home as well as our little home here on the other side of the country. Feels like the other side of the world sometimes though!
I don't think I would call Salt Lake home if it weren't for the combination of having lived there for a few years plus the fact that Matt's family is all there. But pulling onto I-80 from the airport, when you can see downtown outlined against the mountains...definitely feels like home too.
Primrose Ave will definitely always be home. I love Monrovia--what a beautiful little town and I always took it for granted! (especially the warmth and the abundance of warm-weather plants...I love palm trees, orange trees, etc. so much.) I guess there are worse things than living in a great place and assuming everywhere else is just as great.
I don't know why this turned into such a ponderous comment except that I can identify. I love my home here. But I love my other homes too, and because they are destinations and people who love me are there, sometimes I long for them as an escape from the drudgeries of real life.
P.S. Are you loving Lost?? I got a little bored of it sometime in the 3rd or 4th season. But then the story picked back up and I loved it once more. I'm excited for the new season!!
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