Excitement

This is such an exciting week! I am about to go home to the USA for ALS Advocacy Days, but as an added bonus I get to see several of my friends and some family while I am home! Two of my best friends had babies recently and I get to see one of them, I get to snuggle with my beloved dog, and I get to take a long drive with one of my oldest friends. I can't wait to have down time with her and just catch up on all of the things that are happening in our lives. Catching up is one of my favorite things to do! I am trying to be mature and subdued about my exciting trip, but I am having a really hard time disguising my super smile this week. Only a few more days.

I am also really excited to see all of my fellow fighters against ALS while I am in DC. My dad and I have kind of made this an annual thing that we do together, and I am really looking forward to some quality Dad time. We are going to walk around and see our beautiful Nation's Capital, eat dinner at one of my mom's favorite restaurants, and talk about my mom a lot. My favorite part of ALS Advocacy days, even more than the empowering feeling of walking into a Senator's office and sitting across from him at his desk, is that as a group all of the people at the conference spend time reminiscing about their lost loved ones. They tell funny anecdotes, favorite memories, and tell each other what they miss the most about their loved ones. One of the things that I find really strange about our Western culture is the weirdo way in which we deal with death. Death is a part of life. It sucks when someone you love is taken from you when you are not ready to let them go, but we have an awfully strange way of dealing with death in our culture. I think my next couple of posts will talk about this phenomenon and why I think it is weird and needs to change. This post has been all over the place but I blame my scattered brain for being so excited about going HOME this week.
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