I can't wait...

Things I can't WAIT to do when I get home:

• Get up in the middle of the night and pee - without having to get fully dressed and walk outside
• Shower while not wearing shoes!
• Drive my car with the windows down and the music up - especially while driving south to Charleston!
• Wear open toed-shoes and flip flops (anywhere but the shower)
• Wear skirts
• Read Washingtonian Magazine - my love
• Sit on a comfy couch with my feet up
• Wear my hair down
• Watch TV
• Enjoy TWO days off a week (and only work 40 hours!)
• Buy groceries
• Do laundry (except for putting it away, I will still hate to put it away)
• Snuggle with my dogs
• Play ball with Banjo
• Listen to music as loud as I want
• Go for walks when it is daylight out
• Not walk .5 miles for every meal
• See my family (especially Baby Javery and Maris!)
• LISTEN TO NPR
• Go shopping without having to request a pass 7 days in advance
• Roll around in the grass
• Talk on the phone and text people!
• Smell the flowers
• Wash my sheets every weekend!
• NOT sleep in a bunk bed
• Wear big funky earrings
• TAKE A LOOOOOOOOOONG BUBBLE BATH - with loofah scrubbies and leave-in conditioners
• Eat cheese and crackers (I really miss cheese and crackers)
• Cook my own dinner
• NOT count my dirty clothes in front of a foreign man
• Ride my bike!
• Go to Trader Joe's
• Drink out of soda cans and water bottles with English written on them
• Microwave stuff!
• Take my dogs for a walk and give them baths!
• Wear tank tops
• NOT sweat like a whore in church every minute of the day
• Have fast bandwidth so I can download new music
• Leave the area for the day without having to sit in a search pit for 30 minutes while bomb dogs sniff my car and cops go through my purse/car every time I want to come home. (love the bomb dogs, though - they're so sweet and smart)
• NOT have everything I own be covered in a quarter inch of silt
• Use a real hair dryer
• Get dressed up
• Go to any website I want
• Go see Brett in NY
• Spend some time getting to know DC again
• NOT wear combat boots!
• Get stuff I want when I want it
• Catch up with all of my friends on all the stuff I've missed
• Eat a salad with blue cheese, granny smith apples, roasted chicken, and BV (yum!)
• Two words: soy milk!
• Drink spirits until I'm satisfied (not until my ration card is full)
• Use cold, hard American CASH - not these silly "Eagle Cash Cards" and Qatari Riyal
• Eat an open-faced meatloaf sandwich
• Read the Washington Post
• Burn scented candles
• Go to the library
• Buy a house
• Wear some decent running shoes again!
• Go to Target (ahhhhhh Target) - and spend money on things I don't need
• Sleep in a comfy bed with comfy sheets and comfy pillows
• NOT drink 15 bottles of water a day or fear death from dehydration
• NOT get a huge whiff of camel ass when I walk outside in the morning
• Learn to make lemon cupcakes while Megan and Baby Javery teach and critique me

There may be more, but that's a start...