home sweet home.

Hello Friends,

It has been a while since I've blogged and thus, I'm a bit rusty; so here goes...

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It's hard to fathom -- at least, for me -- but I left one home and 15 hours later, I arrived at another home. Home, as I wrote about weeks ago, elicits many concepts and luckily for me, I have many homes.

I experienced a wealth of feelings while I was away; it was almost, in my mind, a lifetime of emotions. How often can you say, amongst other events, that you welcomed a birth; commemorated a death; celebrated your birthday 5 months early with a cake made out of sand at a playground; got sick in a parking lot; and received notification of your first scientific publication all in a span of nearly 4 weeks?

Despite the whirlwind of activities I experienced, it's good to be back -- back at home, especially when greeted by your husband with a bouquet of flowers at the train station.

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It's surprising to realize how 'British' I've become since my relocation 14 months ago. I've snuck in 'straight away's' in many conversations with friends; surpressed an unexpected craving for Walker's salt and vinegar baked crisps; did not feel out-of-placed when having drinks one evening with 5 British expats -- who I refer to as 'me' but in reverse -- now living in Vancouver.