HOME: Reflections on our first month on the East Coast

Well, it has been one month today that Jared and I started our adventures on the East Coast. This has definitely been the longest time I've been away from family, friends, California, and "home".  It has made me realize a few things about life...and you'll have to pardon my cliches for a moment. Although it's been an adjustment living in the hot, sticky weather, and I get lost when iphone lets me down, and everything is foreign...things haven't been too hard. I've only had one emotional breakdown, and it truly had nothing to do with being so far away from anything familiar, and everything to do with the realization at how much it costs to furnish a house.

Before I left California, I had the incredible pleasure of watching one of my favorite people, Katie Reagan, dance in her school's showcase. First of all, she's so talented and beautiful and creative... Secondly, she danced one piece to a song by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros called "Home".  (It's a great song...you should download it)  I've been enthralled with it ever since, and it kind of sums up how I've felt about our first month in a new place. "We laugh until we think we'll die / Barefoot on a summer night / Nothin' new is sweeter than with you...Home is wherever I'm with you."

I know it sounds completely cliche and a little out of character...but I've realized that as long as I am with my two best friends...Jared and Jesus. I'm not alone or lonely or lost. I'm home.

Now...that's not to say that I don't miss California, or my family, or friends, or Pedro's Tacos, or the ocean, or not sweating all day... It's just to say that I'm happy.

In completely unrelated news...I made some delicious individual sized peach cobbler's from scratch last night for Jared and me in my cute little souffle dishes I just purchased...and they were DELICIOUS!