there's no place like home.

i want to go back home. now. our ride home on tuesday, where Gauri and Kaoru and i watched Cars and that made me happy, was unbelievably short and i actually got to watch House at a reasonable hour =) on wednesday, i went and visited the world and put about 40 miles on Sparky in one day, just from going around long island. my mom and Kaoru went and got stuff for Thanksgiving and then we met back home and made pumpkin pie and went to Michael's, which my mom and i do every year on the day before Thanksgiving. then Kaoru and i met Sam and Michelle at Friday's!! turns out Sam didn't have meningitis after all. she had (spelling may be way wrong..) Gayamba-Ray Syndrome. i'd only heard of it because...it's often a possible diagnosis on House! but just to show how rare it is, it's never the answer to the final diagnosis. yet that's what Sam had. after we ate we drove around aimlessly for a bit which was fun.

Thanksgiving day started out like any Thanksgiving day. we watched the Macy's parade and ate pumpkin pie for breakfast. then i went and picked up my grandmother and almost got into an accident because of the dumb new security system at her development. then my aunt and uncle and Gina and Joe came, and we played Apples to Apples :-D and then ate and ate and ate some more. after the massive eating Gina and Kaoru and i went to pick up Bevin (but we showed Kaoru my school first..) so we could sing Christmas carols to ring in the season!! since we didn't have time to rehearse, it was fun and the best parts were 1) Bevin introducing me to The Friendly Beast, a really great Christmas song that i'd heard before and never knew the name of, and 2) the most hilarious rendition of the 12 days of Christmas EVER. we assigned everybody a part. well, first of all, Joe didn't want to do it, so my mom wanted to give him the partridge in a pear tree. Kaoru never heard the song before. i stuck my dad with two turtle doves again, and he also did the funniest seven swans a swimming ever. the song took about 15 minutes by the time we sorted it all out.

then on Friday, we got up around 7:30 and headed to Target for the doorbusters. in case anyone didn't know, i LOVE Black Friday. i bought so many Christmas presents for only $150. Target is amazing. and Kaoru survived Black Friday! we went into the mall for a bit for more doorbusters, and were on our way home by 12:30. we had lunch with Christina, and then kind of hung out and i talked to Arielle for a while. then my dad came home and we took Kaoru to NYC! we drove around and ate at Fiorello's (of course...). on Saturday i got my hair done and then we went to my aunt's in New Jersey but before we went to her house we took Trish and Joseph to see Santa which was hilarious. then we all hung out at my aunt's house and ate some more. Sunday was back to Salve with Gauri. and now i'm here and i want to go back.

it is now Christmastime, one of my three favorite things EVER (the others are Disney World and the Last Week of School) but i feel sad today because 1) it's raining, and 2) i miss home already. i want to enjoy the time here the way my dad was saying, but i'm feeling like i just want to make it for two more weeks of classes. and then i get to come home for FIVE WEEKS. and that begins with my birthday. wowie. but i'm still wishing that i could sort of fast forward to the 14th when we get to go home. and yes, i love my friends here. but i just want it to be easy, to have all of my friends here together. i really do love it here. i just want all of my friends to be in one place. and i want my parents to come back. i know they will be here for the Christmas concert but does it make me completely babyish that i want them to stay for those two weeks?