Livin' in the moment.

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” 
-Dr. Suess

It's funny how true that statement really is. We (yes you AND me) tend to take the simplest "problems" and turn them into the most complicated situations when in reality the answers are laid out in plain sight.

This was my dilemma with missing home. Just like in the States every chance I had I was checking Facebook or Twitter, looking at Instagram and seeing how much fun my friends and sisters were having at home. I couldn't help but wish I was there. So this week (I think on Tuesday) I deleted my Facebook and Twitter app on my phone. It was weird at first but then I just stopped carrying my phone around in general. If I am looking for someone or someone is looking for me we can't  be to far away in this manor house.

My attitude has done a 180 since doing this. Granted I still will post from my computer and do the occasional creep on an unexpecting person but I am not tying myself to technology that is showing me what I am missing at home. Because quite honestly I need, and want, to live in the moment.

This weekend called for no travels but was still filled with so much fun and getting to know new people. I went into Grantham yesterday with Carly and Erin and bought new hiking shoes for my adventures to come. I finished one and a half papers and had a night filled with chick flicks and watching wedding videos with some amazing people.

Don't get me wrong, I still wish on occasion that I was at home with my Little Bit and Gens but I love it here and have decided to live in the moment. Sunday will my day to catch up with 'Merica and talk to all the people I love back home.

This week will be filled with stress and excitement as I get ready to leave for Scotland but I am so ready to spend a weekend in my first other country!

So the question of what to do to stop myself from missing home so much was a bit complicated but the answer was easy - live in the moment!