Hello to all and to all a good read,

I swear to all of you I am going to stay consistent in writing on this thing. As god is my witness I will stay consistent for you, or more like for my own sanity. I haven’t written since Christmas, but it’s because of all the hustle and bustle of the holidays. Since dealing with the chaos from within because of doing nothing on Christmas day, I have been fairly busy spending time with people I love. I left for a few days back to that horrible place I called home (also the place I wrote nice things about on an earlier post, showing my love for The Dino), spent time with my family, and visited some friends.

Home, what can I say about home. I missed it terribly. I missed my grandparents, all the kids, my aunts and uncles. It’s like nothing had changed; as if I came back to how I left it or like time stood still. I think that’s the quirky charm of San Bernardino though. It seems to stay the same no matter how much time has passed. The same ol’ people who hate it there and can’t wait to leave, but just don’t ever seem to have the motivation. Or those other people who are in denial and tell themselves it’s not that bad there. The same ol’ sites to see and everything.

Being home for such a short time was really comforting. The joys of being home for me are spending time with my family members, being in a Vietnamese house, listening to Vietnamese television and kids running around laughing in the background, while I serve myself and do things on my own. These things put me in a state of temporary peace. It’s nice for the short period of time that I am there and I am happy I always have a place to go to when the going gets tough. At the same time I am happy to leave when I get back to realizations that this is just a chaotic day in the life of my family and usually most days are filled with exhaustion and driven by the kids’ needs. I am happy to visit and also happy to go. Also, seeing some of my friends was really nice. Being able to actually see them and hang out, instead of texting, emailing, calling, even snail mailing them was nice for once.

Being home for the holidays for a bit was nice but I’m off to continue my off time in other ways.

- <3 Jacqueline

 

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