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Yes, I’m home.

And back at work.

And still tanned, but fearing a fast fade into pasty white oblivion.

Vancouver is about 10 degrees cooler, 20% more humid, and the pillow-stuffing sky doesn’t even remotely resemble palm trees outlined in azure.

BUT.

If vacations lasted forever, they wouldn’t be vacations.

They’d just be… well, who am I kidding. That would be awesome.

I’m going to write up the whole experience in the next couple of days, but I just wanted to say HI! HELLO! HOW ARE YOU?

And give you a tiny little love list to make up for my lack of Friday Love last week.

THINGS I LOVE

Laundromats with old ladies who point at your underwear and go “Oooh!”
Kindness
3-song playlists
Remote control boats at the Santa Monica pier
Bad girl eyes as created by this and this
Iced coffee
Crooked frozen smile
Fritz and Shirley
Peppermint gumballs
Lil’ Fiji (Eric brought these home and I went bananas. I call them Weejis. But not oujias. NOT TO BE CONFUSED)
Wearing a red muumuu at the beach
Freckles
Artichoke hearts
Drinking coffee at 1 am, but feeling so relaxed you fall asleep anyway
Snake bites (not the deadly kind)
Stepping away from all the chirping of Internet pundits for a bit to remember you know how to make your own opinions
5 new pairs of Havaianas (These in beige and black; these in rose and gold; and this style in brown with pink straps and dots. Mmmm.)

And you? Come on. I know it’s Tuesday, but this is a two love list week for me.

One must love it up when one is back to work!

Once I’m back home, that is.

Oy.

This sped by like a freight train.

Lots of pictures and silly experiences to share, from giving a woman a concussion in a Denny’s at midnight to having my pants come off after a particularly awesome wave to spending an unholy amount of cash on flip flops.

Stay tuned.

Love to all.

Catherine had a root canal yesterday.

And not just a root canal, but one with an abscess they discovered underneath!

WOO!

Yes, emergency dentistry when you’re away from home is no picnic, especially when the Vicodin they give you makes you ill, and you have to make do with Advil and Tylenol instead. She’s pretty tuckered out.

So we’re running close to home and low-key for now. We’ll see how things evolve in our last couple of days here.

In other news, San Diego weather reports indicated it would rain today… and it’s bright and sunny.

Good try, San Diego!

(NO ROOT CANAL STORIES OR HORRIFIED COMMENTS. NADA. UNWELCOME.)

(Sympathy is good, though.)