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By kilax, January 11, 2008 5:37 am

What is something you really enjoy doing that is a chore or a bore for many people?

I love to unpack my luggage after a trip. I get all excited about it on the way home. I like putting things were they belong – dirty clothes in the hamper, clean clothes in the closet, my laptop onto my desk, books back on the shelf, bathroom supplies back into the bathroom… you get the idea.

It just makes me feel good knowing everything is in its place.

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By kilax, January 7, 2008 5:50 am

Whenever I visit my family in Iowa, I feel so out of the loop of what is going on with everyone.

My younger brother quit his job a few months ago and is working at a completely different place. Didn’t know that.

My sister had a car accident (not a serious one) in December. Didn’t know that.

My parents bought a “new-for-them” van. Didn’t know that.

That is the bad part about living so far away from your family – you can never really be completely “in-the-know” with their lives.

Now that my sister is in college, and I feel like we can finally relate to each other, I would like to spend more time with her. But she’s busy, I’m busy, we live so far away, I hate to talk on the phone… most of our communication is emails and facebook now.

I feel like a broken record. I know I have mentioned this before. But I think this is an unsolvable problem for me. I like working in Chicago, and my family happens to live in Iowa. Until the day that Chicago’s suburbs begin to sprawl into Iowa, and I can take a rapid transit train to see them, I will have to deal with it.