I have missed, looked forward to, and am currently taking advantage of (in no specific order):
- using my large capacity washing machine that fully cleans massive amounts of dirty laundry
- my dryer that drys everything without walking 8 city blocks and pumping £1 for every 15 minutes of drying time
- doing full loads of laundry (wash AND dry) in under 1 1/2 hours
- Strawberry Twizzlers® in just about every store (!!!!)
- "Robot Chicken" on late night TV
- buying big thick organic steaks at the local grocery store... that will be cooked to a perfect medium rare
- my cell phone and it's wonderful full QWERTY keypad (as opposed to the "pay as you go" crap one I had in London)
- the awesome water pressure in my shower where I can wash my hair w/out banging my elbows on the shower walls
- WiFi that doesn't kick me off line every 20 minutes or so
- cheeseburgers
- Fresca® (I don't normally drink soda unless I need caffeine or have an upset stomach, but Fresca® is my true guilty pleasure (soda wise), even though it's calorie free)
- Getting into the car on the left side and finding a steering wheel in front of me
- my car, POS that it may be, I missed it
- being able to hop into the aforementioned POS car and randomly show up at my BFF's place for a cup of tea and hours of silly conversation
- the ability to purchase things without having to do the conversion math (£ to $) in my head to try to figure out how much more expensive something is
- make enough ice cubes to fill one of the drawers in my freezer... then make some more
- sleep for two days straight on my soft, clean, comfy, fresh, high thread count sheets & thick down comforter, with multiple pillows to choose from, in my warm girly bed
- watch the rest of this past seasons "Dexter"
- spend an entire week of evenings watching "On Demand" movies while eating strips of red pepper dipped in blue cheese dressing
- clean out the junk in my house
- wear shoes other than my chuck taylors, and the ones with more than a 1/2" heel
- have more than 6 outfits to chose from
- spend an afternoon curled up by the real fire in the wood burning stove with the dog
- lay in bed reading books till I am ready to fall asleep
All that said, I do miss the BF an awful lot (I guess I must refer to him as the EXBF now, eh? :( ) and I hope that he manages to come out here this spring before my job at the bar starts up again ... because no matter what, and most importantly, he is my friend, and for THAT I love him. ... and when we're good we're REALLY good. Like totally on point and nothin' can stop us... but we hadn't been on point for a while and our relationship suffered. Breaking up seemed like the right thing to do, yet (& possibly ironically) I feel like I am suffering without him now too.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go make some more ice since I am currently chewing on my third full glass of ice and loving every second of it (it really is bizarrely my favorite snack)... and put the 4th load of laundry in the dryer. I'm about ready to go ransack my housemate's bedroom and do his laundry I am enjoying this so much. I am, however, smart enough not to mention this to him because it would probably soon suck all the fun out of it for me. He's got more dirty laundry than I could accumulate in 2 months time of multiple daily wardrobe changes.... but that's a whole other blog post.
