I'm so excited, I'm coughing up butterflies!

So it's almost the big day! Just one more night in Campbell River. Oh my god, I made it! I survived two months of sleeping in my parents basement in Campbell River (in case it hasn't been clear, Campbell River has got to be my least favorite town that I have ever lived in. I just find it so lackluster and uninspiring). And of course I love my parents, and it's not that they are difficult to live with (at all!). It's living without my independence that is difficult.

I moved out on my own the second I had the chance and oh what a glorious day that was. Just seventeen. The year I sported a rather stylish black and burgundy mohawk.  Now I'm 25, but that no matter how old you get you will always feel like a kid/teenager again the minute you're back living (or "extended visit", as I'd like to refer to it as) with the folks.

But very soon I'll have my independence back. I can see that light glowing warm and bright at the end of this tunnel... and that light is the sunny weather of Tuscany! FINALLY. It feels like I have been waiting forever. But first a quick stop in Vancouver with some very special ladies for Caribbean food and rum cocktails at the Reef and then two nights in London, catching up with an old friend and roommate I met in Victoria, BC. Che vita!