Background Noise: sportscenter
Last website visited: checking things
Mood: tired, wired, in the eye of the storm (trite, yes, but who cares)
Right now i want... a chance to figure out where i am

hi. so, first things first, i arrived home safely... eventually. andy picked me up and we made record time to the airport, which i promptly squandered by waiting in line to get my ticket for nearly half an hour... long story for later, let's just say it wasn't the best time to have to wait (pre-coffee). i made some new friends waiting for coffee past security, boarded my plane, and 3 hours and 20 mins later (great timing, the jet stream kicks ass), i was back home in greater detroit. of course, my parents (again) didn't believe me when i said the plane would get in at 3:30 and were still in grosse pointe when i touched down, but it gave me time to make a few dozen calls while i waited.

from the airport i was wisked away to food (finally!) at j. alex's, and then elle and i were sent off to my grandmother's house to... see her. please note for the record, i was still in the pj's i wore on the plane and hadn't yet made it home. the lil sis and i battled rush hour traffic (thank god for predictable detroit drivers) to grosse point in my mom's behemoth suv, and 'visited' with my grandma and aunt pam for about an hour.

home is a beautiful mix of greens and whites and purples. the clouds were a continuous stream of oil paintings, one more perfect and incredible than the next.

i dropped elle off at home and went to see Cathy and Al :) yeay!! and we (very randomly) went to see the Princess Diaries 2 (so cute) at the birmingham paladium at 9:20pm.

this is a good point to note that i drove all afternoon: to my grandma's, home, to the silber's, birmingham and back. and while i did have a navagation system to back me up in case i forgot where i was, i never missed a beat. once again, it was normal to be here: standard operating procedure. almost like the past several months in california have been a dream, and i've woken up back home where i've always been. but not.

talked to tobey on the way home... made it here... around midnight. that's right: from 6:15 am pacific time to midnight eastern time, that was my day. well, i woke up an hour earlier, but that's not quite the point. i've been thrown from place to place, situation from situation, and i'm sure i haven't handled everything with the tact or sensitivity required.

but how could i? i barely know where i am. all i know is, for right now, i'm so very glad to be home.