So, like, no one is home. I'm on fall break, where I should be taking a break from school and hanging out with my friends, laughing about being home in a town we know all too well, and comparing stories regarding 24-hour Walmarts. Sigh. I'm stuck alone in my hometown, where nothing has changed in the three months I have been gone. Well, what do I do?
1. Get Chipotle.
One of the best things to do when I go home and return to a civilized society that lacks corn fields and the smell of cows floating our direction, is go to Chipotle. I will wait in that line for a year for a burrito bowl or a set of three tacos, dripping in hot sauce. The faces around me will be unrecognizable, knowing guac is extra. After I yell over the sneeze guard glass and pay for a bag of chips, I'll return home to my parents' green couch and smile until I'm full.
2. Catch up on your shows!
Missing "The Middle" and "The Real Housewives" is killing me. The DVR will be full of the things I've missed (God bless my family), and I will binge watch everything that was ever taped on a Sunday, green couch, pj's. No one will bother me; my phone will never vibrate. Beauty. Peace.
3. Fall back in love with your bed
Does anyone like their college bed more than their home bed?(OK, maybe I do.) Home bed is a cloud that I never want to come off of. I fall asleep at nine p.m. and wake up at noon. Home bed catches me up, restoring the cycle. Don't make me go.
4. Cry
Let it out.
5. Procrastinate on homework
Why be home and do work? Save it until the last minute when you head back to school. It's break, so take one.
6. In addition to getting Chipotle, go on a food tour!
Hey mom, the food tour begins again the moment you see me! The food tour is an event made up my me and my mom where we eat at all my favorite places during the time I am home. Holy full stomach.
7. Do laundry for free
OK, I won't do my own laundry because I'm home and my mom's doing laundry anyway sooooo why not just stick mine in there too? My clothes have a fast turn around from laundry basket to my closet, unlike school where they sit and sit and sit until there's enough laundry to fill the washer, paying $1.25 and waiting, moving, drying, folding, putting it away. Misery at its finest.
8. Spend time with family
The few friends I have in town are away so I only have plans to hang out with my parents. Dinner, TV, shopping, running around, buying food for when I come back to school, etc. Spending time with my family is probably more crazy than hanging out with my friends would be. Cherish the laughs and the home cooked meals; save it all until Thanksgiving.
9. Smile
I'm home, I'm busy, It's break, I'm happy.
