Things From Home I Miss

• Mums & Daddio, and my family all being nearby.
• Ernie, Lucy, Sparky, and sometimes even Sophie. ("Hello, Newman.")
• Parking in a garage
• A really nice, unshared, multiple-settings, washer and dryer
• Garbage disposal
• Dishwasher
• Saturday night dinners with the family
• Counter space in the kitchen!!!
• Not having to search for a parking spot whenever I come home
• No ridiculously loud teenybopper skaters gathering below my bedroom window every night
• Mums' homecooked dinners
• Coming up with new "one-man off-Broadway production" titles to describe Chaz's current moods and appearances
• Shopping at Meijers with Mums and Daddio
• Shopping at Kohls with Mums and Grandma
• Visiting Grandpa and Grandma in the evening
• Reverse osmosis water
• Flat Top Grill
• Continual amusement at Daddio & Ernie's "best friendship," and Daddio's perpetual favoring of Ernie over all the other dogs
• The many laugh-til-you-cry moments: going through Daddio's "basket o' treasure" with Alex and Mums; Mums attempting to throw a foam cooler up the basement stairs to Daddio; Chaz losing the ability to form words at the dinner table and instead sort of squawking and sticking his tongue out; Mums' frequent inability to use correct words when she got tired; Daddio's never-ending fount o' coffee (and the dozen coffee mugs scattered throughout the house, and Mums' gathering and cleaning thereof); the nightly battle of Lucy versus Daddio for the right-hand side of the bed
• Playing Jeopardy! during dinner with Mums & Daddio
• Enough storage space to allow stocking-up of a frequently-used item when it was on sale at the store
• Bigger closets
• Weekend lunches at Grandpa & Grandma's house
• Water softener softened-water in which to shower
• Toilets that actuallly flushed. Every time you flushed them.
• No sewer gas smell, even when it rained

Perhaps I'll add more at a later date.