A vacation, finally

I'm off like a prom dress tomorrow to see the BF and for a home-coming tour of A2 for 10 days.

I SOOOO need a break and experience normality again! Even though I spent 19 years of my life here in Germany, the place continues to feel alien, and I continue to feel like a cultural retard in everyday life. I would like to have the experience again of being able to walk into a store and know what I can buy there. Or to have people say "Excuse me" when they invade my personal space. Or to go to a restaurant where they not only put ice in your tap water voluntarily, but actually have ice available for such a purpose.

In the good news department, I can report that my mother had an MRI of her brain last week and it did not show any new metastases, and the old ones are shrinking. Yahoo! We still have to find the source of the trouble with her leg, so that could send me to the bad news dpt very quickly, but for now, this is good news about the brain.

Anyway, if you don't see me while I'm there (sorry to all the folks on the East coast!), I'll report when I get back.