- Green and Pleasant Land
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lonewolverine
- July 12th, 2005
My parents are spoiling me rotten. I guess this is what happens when you abandon people for six months - they get all happy to see you again! For my part, I've noticed a very definite more pro-active feel about the way I go about things. I'm much less okay with sitting around not doing much.
They've redone my room to an extent. It looks so pretty, and so much more 'me' now. It used to just be a spare room, narrow, and filled with other people's junk. Now it has curtains, and new cushions, and incense burners, and little decorative pots. Everything is yellow and red, and has a chinese feel to it.
There's a new couch, a new laundry basket, a new tree in the back yard, a strawberry bush and a new internet connection. My parents bought broadband! It's nice, means I don't get disconnected every two hours.
I miss everybody in Ohio already. They all went and drunk on a bottle of Tequila without me! And they're drinking coke and observing how it's the first time they've been able to drink soda without me ranting about how evil it is.
Well. Changes in myself since going-
I actually miss people, for starters. I've never really been that bothered about leaving people behind before. But, as we all know, Suzie made some deep connections this time round.
I'm way more pro-active/hyper. Running up and down stairs continously is totally not a problem. Sugar levels higher generally? Or just less lazy and expecting other people to do all the work for me?
Less materialistic. Good god, how much crap do I have, and why do I have it? Seriously, I have no use for 90% of my clothes, and they just take up space. Ditto with other things. There's entire boxes of my stuff in the attic, and I haven't missed them in six months...
Early morning wake-up calls. It's now impossible for me to sleep past about 10am without feeling like crap. Even if I've had NO sleep the night before.
A weird sense of disorientation when I have to sleep in a room by myself/do stuff without there being other people around.
A desire for more money, so I can blow it on expensive things like going out to eat, or plane/train tickets. (I want to see the country damnit! It's England! I ain't been here - I appreciate it more now! Plus I need to see all my friendly people here!)
Abuse of exclamation points. *makes note to stop using them so frequently*
More talkative. Most likely just because I have a crapload of anecdotes and stories to tell.
Quicker for me to get started on doing something. Less procrastination. This is a GOOD thing. Still need to conquer my addiction to the damn internet though. Even more so now, because I'm going to be sitting on here waiting for Ohio people to come online...
Well. And I'm eating a bacon sarnie. With real bacon. Real, delicious, juicy, Enlish bacon. On bread. Bread that hasn't been pumped full of sugar. And with Olivio butter, which lacks hydrogenated oils and trans-fat. It tastes so good. So gooooood.
The important thing for me right now is not to wallow in self-pity because I can't see Rach, Rob, James, Will, Jim etc etc. for a while. I should focus on getting a job, and sorting out my life. I need money, I need a job, I need to get some artwork underway and all the rest of it.