July 18 - "Re-Entry" Day

Today was a confusing day. I didn't know how to feel. I was happy to be home, but sad to not be in Russia. I was happy to see my parents and my dogs, but missing my new foreign friends. I was really exhausted when I woke up, so I made my tea and headed to the couch to watch some of my shows I had set the PVR to record while I was away. But when it turned it on, it wasn't working, and after phoning MTS, and playing around with stuff downstairs, it turned out that the plug for the main PVR box had come unplugged, and therefore it did not record anything for the 3 weeks I was away. I cried over this. It is amazing how quickly we fall back into our old ways of caring about things that don't really matter!

Last night on the way home from the airport my mom told me that a member of her church (and my old church 29 years) had passed away suddenly from an aneurism. She hadn't wanted to text that to me, so she waited until I came home. The funeral was today, and I wanted to be there. So after my shower I got ready and went to the church. It was a very nice service with a nice reception to follow. I was so exhausted though, which made it difficult to have conversations with people!

I came home after the funeral to have a nap, but ended up going through my photos because I wanted to show them to my parents tonight. After having dinner with them, I plugged my ipad into their tv but it didn't work. So we came over to my place to do it, but as I was showing them my eyes were drooping and I could barely speak. We decided to save it for another night when I'm not so tired!