We won't say our goodbyes. We know it's better this way. Well, once again, I stared out the plane window watching NY turn to dots and ripples and then suddenly, puffy white. It was bitter-sweet. It was sweet in that my mind now turns to the exciting thought of moving back in March, which most people know of by now. It was bitter in knowing that it'd be two months before I'd be back. I mean, it's either all or nothing. I either go two months without having any friends to having two and a half weeks filled with non-stop friends. Don't get me wrong, I loved every moment of it, but all it really did was make me miss home even more. I miss all my friends. That said, I'm back here on Marco Island in a 7th story condo.... Ryan and I can't sleep in our room tonight, because it kind of "mini-flooded" while we were in NY, so a company had to come take all the furniture out and dry out the carpets/underneath the carpets.

But enough emo...ness. haha. Sorry.

I AM glad about a lot of things right now. First of all, Sabrina is coming down TOMORROW! I'm really excited. She'll be here until Friday, when Greg is coming, and then he's staying until next Tuesday, so I'm stoked for both visits. Secondly, I officially finished two college applications (Belmont and Visible School), so that's really exciting to finally have the ball roling on that. Thirdly, sooooooometime soon, I'm getting the new Mac, so I'm very excited for when that happens.

And, regardless of my mixed feelings of being back down here, I am so happy that I got to see all my friends. Let's see... all together there was (in order) Kaitlin, all of CCA, Kirstin, Amber, Greg (+family & Willy), Ben, all of my family (Dad, Mom, John [+ friend Povel], Laura, Dar, Dave, Ryan, Aunt Linda, Uncle Joe, Uncle Tom), Rachelle, Josh, Jordan, Lydia, Alyssa +Mr. & Mrs. Best and Evan, Greg (again), Tanya, Willy, Aidan, Greg & Willy again, Sabrina + her whole family, Josh Etheridge and Mr. and Mrs. Etheridge, Evan & Nate, then Darren, then all of Konnected + New Vine, then the Konnected gathering over at Josh's house, then Jessica Monastra (+ Erica Rosenburg and another person), then Katie, and throughout all of those people, random combinations of their families, family friends, parties with other people, church (aka a tonnnn of people), etc....

So as you can see, it was quite a visit home. Sure, I would have liked to see maybe a few more friends, but I'll take what I can get. haha... It was incredible.

God has blessed me with some incredible people in my life, and that is why I want to move back to NY. The weather is nice, the school is nice, my job is nice.... everything's fine down here, but truly... there is nothing like home.

Not to mention, once again.... it'll be an adventure.

-Jeff Carl  ¶ 10:37:00 PM