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So, it is Thanksgiving weekend (almost). Pretty much every single one of my close friends is going home, including my roommate. It’s going to be lonely. Of course, I have a big Thanksgiving dinner with my extended family to look forward to, but it’s not the same as being HOME.
Dinner with the rellies will be awesome though. I don’t eat turkey, but I still loooove Thanksgiving dinner. The squash, the sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce and… PUMPKIN PIE. Oh how my heart sings for pumpkin pie (apple pie’s not bad either).
Can I tell you guys a secret? I bought a can of pumpkin pie filling this week to make pumpkin bread, but I only used up half of it. Ever since, I have been stealing away random spoonfuls of the delicious stuff, especially as a bedtime snack. Oh my goodness it is yummy.
One thing I do appreciate about being here in the fall is the colours. We don’t get the fiery oranges and reds back home, just old boring yellow. It’s so neat to walk under a red tree with the sunlight filtering through through the leaves, it feels like you are just bathing in fall. There is something so Canadian about walking on a crisp fall day with red maple leaves scattered on the sidewalk…
The exam is done and it went well, thank goodness. I’m a happy camper, but a little tired. This afternoon I desperately need to attend to some domestic matters, ie scrubbing the tub, grocery shopping and dusting.
Happy Thanksgiving to the Canadians. Others, enjoy the weekend (when it gets here!)
It’s an early morning tomorrow to catch my plane back to university town. My dad and brother are coming too and I can’t even tell you how much that helps me. I meet my roomies as soon as I get there and I’m nervous but also excited and optimistic. This summer has been so great.
Asthma-wise, it’s been really sweet. Allergy season hit a little harder than expected but I got through it. I made it four months with only one course of prednisone and NO visits to the ER. Rock on!!
Family-wise, I feel so blessed. People told me I might start to find it harder to come back home for the summers, that my family might start to get on my nerves, but it didn’t happen. My parents are great, they treat me as an adult and respect my decisions yet welcome me back as if nothing has changed. My sister and I had SO many good times together and many giggling fits, many pots of tea. While I was home I watched my brother transform from a smart yet moody and school-despising teen into an interesting, funny and highly innovative young adult. I don’t want to miss what is yet to come, because I know it’ll be good for him.
I’ll miss this place, as I always do. The air is clear and bright and the sky goes on forever. The mountains are there whether you are looking at them out your bedroom window or whether your are out climbing them. The valleys, the rivers, the hills, it’s all home!
I know I’m set up to have a GREAT year. But goodbyes are really really hard.
PS See you on the other side. I don’t know when I will get to update but I will fill you in on the new place!!
I caught a cold. Grrrr, hope I get through it unscathed. This means I probably won’t be going on our canoe trip today.
In other news, I am leaving home on Friday. Yikes, that seems way too soon, does anybody else feel like the summer went by way too quickly? I hope my cold clears up by then because flying with popping ears and a bad chest can be hellish. My dad and brother are coming with me to help me move my stuff into the new place, then we’re going to Quebec city for a few days for some family time. I’m sooo glad that they are coming with me, it makes the transition a whole lot easier. AAAAAAH FRIDAY!
The pollen season here is nearly a month behind the pollen season where I go to school. What a huge difference. I am only starting to feel those itchy streamy eyes now. Even though I’m probably in for some allergy annoyances, I don’t think pollen season here has anywhere near as much oomph to it as it does back in university city. Thank goodness for that, I don’t know what I’d do if I had to live through it twice in a row!
Hello! Well it will be 2 weeks tomorrow since I’ve been home! How have my lungs been behaving in this drier climate and at higher altitude? For the most part, it’s been great, just as I anticipated. I haven’t had a single attack “out of the blue”, nor have I had any nighttime attacks. In general, I feel much less breathless. Also, despite having a pretty heavy chest cold, my asthma didn’t go way out of control. The only thing is that I seem to have a reduced tolerance for exercise out here. I’ve been out and about cycling to work, walking, hiking and have just found it to be much tougher on my lungs.
Now, this makes quite a bit of sense. I’ve read quite a bit about exercise-induced asthma being related to drier air reaching the lungs as a result of breathing through the mouth. So if the air is drier to begin with, I’m sure that would increase problems related to exercise. Still, I need to keep it up because that’s the only way my lungs will get used to it. I’m planning on doing another hike this weekend, hopefully one with less snow. Also, I have highland dance tonight so that will put the lungies to the test.
Oh yes, and PS it snowed here today. GRrr!
Nobody can believe that I could miss this brown grass in spring. But I think it’s the crisp clean air and huge open sky that I find exhilarating
Sitting with: Mom and sister KJ
Listening to: Oliver Schroer (thank you Peter)
Sipping on: Himalayan Chai
Life Is Good
