Home Again

Well, I made it back to Florida (sitting in the airport in Orlando, waiting on the shuttle to take me to Ocala right now). I didn't get any running in (which sucks), but I did get new running shoes that will hopefully help with the hip pain I've been having recently, and I got a lot of other exercise. It snowed a good bit while I was home, so I got some shoveling in, which is a good workout, and we went hiking in the woods in the snow a couple times. I also helped clean the barn (can you say 'ew'?), and that's definitely good exercise.

One thing I realized when I was home is how much I've missed. My mom was mad at my aunt for awhile, so I didn't see some of my cousins for a couple years. One of them (Jeremy), I was really close to for a long time. He was the cutest thing (he would serenade me with songs from Lonestar) and I used to go watch him play pee-wee football. Man, that kid could run. I hadn't seen him for years, though, until I saw him again on Saturday at the family Christmas party. He grew up so much. He's 14 now (I think), tall, and handsome as ever. I'm really tempted to move back closer to home so I can see those guys more than once a year at Christmas (with five vacation days a year, and no sick days, more than that really isn't feasible at this point).

Reading: This trip was very good for reading. I finished Fields of Fire on the trip up. I almost cried on the plane. Sometimes I think I get too attached to characters in books...Anyway, I read Generation Kill after that and just finished it about 20 minutes ago. I didn't realize it was about the same group of guys from One Bullet Away until I started it. I loved reading about them all again, from a different perspective. If you haven't read them, I definitely recommend doing so.