Miss Me?

The Little Things I Miss

• pop-top cans
• familiar cell phone rings
• TLC channel
• my bed (ok, that's a big soft comfortable thing....)
• inside jokes
• hugs
• hand soap
• doors that don't have glass panels
• round doorknobs
• Red Box runs with Julie
• school supply rooms
  
• solid colored textiles (shirts, sheets, towels, etc.)
• friends who spill more than I do (I love you Trin!)
• music I recognize and can understand
• going barefoot
  

The Things I Know I Will Miss

• food
• hospitality like I've never known
• flavored milk
• walking
• the people I work with
• vegetables that taste good
• the amusement of confusion
• snow
• meat at every meal
• Jane's Laugh
• Polly's smile
• corner grocery stores
• Lydia's gentleness
• conversations with Rose
• dumplings
• blue skies and sunshine daily
• the innocence of girls
• bing (food, not Crosby)
• grasslands
  
• dedicated students
  
• 2 hour lunch breaks
• "It's my pleasure"
• British accents

Things I Will Never Miss No Matter Where I Am

• long underwear
  
• metered on-ramps
• car horns
• public urination
• the effects of alcohol
  
• squatty potties
• communication struggles
• men who won't step up to the plate
  
• smoke
• lukewarm coffee
• lukewarm followers of my Father
  
• divorce
• men who spit in public
  
• the lack of street signs
• being stared at
• bad chocolate
• over zealous heaters