I'm sick. And when I'm sick, I get homesick.

Today, I miss grilling out on the back porch of my parents' house while watching the calves chase each other around the lush, green pastures, breathing in the familiar aroma of sizzling burgers and freshly cut hay, and listening to Grandma tell vivid stories about growing up during the Depression.

sigh

What do you miss?

4/25/2010 8:23:48 PM

The southeast, I am tired of the midwest.

4/25/2010 8:24:55 PM

Morphine and Suboxone

4/25/2010 8:25:39 PM

I miss not having the wolf dog to mess around with. Away on business.

4/25/2010 8:26:46 PM

when my friends and i were younger

4/25/2010 8:26:51 PM

I miss going to the general store with my grandaddy. He would let me eat candy and tell him stories while he drank whiskey, chain-smoked and played poker with his buddies.

4/25/2010 8:31:51 PM

innocence of youth.

4/25/2010 8:32:47 PM

the toilet bowl when I'm drunk

4/25/2010 8:34:51 PM

i miss working in the shop with my dad on different projects every evening until my bedtime. we always had something to work on.

[Edited on April 25, 2010 at 8:36 PM. Reason : fads]

4/25/2010 8:36:40 PM

I miss hanging out with Lucy

4/25/2010 8:36:46 PM

I definitely miss late nights at the Lake Johnson Mewes swimming pool w/EMCE, amy and jessica.

4/25/2010 8:38:40 PM

i started to make an honest effort at answering the OP, but i just get choked up when I think about "home" and the things that will never again be.



[Edited on April 25, 2010 at 8:56 PM. Reason : .]

4/25/2010 8:56:20 PM

I miss hanging out with Lucy

4/25/2010 8:58:02 PM

I love Raleigh and chose to move back here when I could have moved everywhere...

But I really miss the excitement of living around New York City. Any given day I could go to a major sporting event on a whim, I could take the train and get amazing Italian food and sit outside in Little Italy and I could do one of a thousand other things that you can't do anywhere else in the world.

[Edited on April 25, 2010 at 9:07 PM. Reason : x]

4/25/2010 9:07:32 PM

Talking about nothing and everything at the same time.

4/25/2010 9:08:39 PM

i miss cold weather. i don't know if you can call that "home" though; i only lived in the north for four years.

4/25/2010 9:08:58 PM

I miss being able to visit my grandparents. And Sunday dinners. And Grandma's fried chixn and boiled potatoes. And Grandma's spoiling me, making me breakfast just how I wanted, because I was a picky little bastard when it came to eating.

4/25/2010 9:17:03 PM

i miss people. cows don't carry on conversations very well.

4/25/2010 9:17:25 PM

^^ my grandparents moved to raleigh a few months after i started at state! it's amazing!

4/25/2010 9:20:45 PM

i miss getting pussy every night


and I miss Chicago deep dish pizza

4/25/2010 9:23:21 PM

mine passed away

4/25/2010 9:23:32 PM

my mom

my grandmother

being happy

ummm freedom?

4/25/2010 9:23:44 PM

kc

4/25/2010 9:25:40 PM

not having adult responsibilities

4/25/2010 9:35:53 PM

not being in debt

not having 0 career choices

not sucking at everything

THOSE WERE THE DAYS

4/25/2010 9:37:26 PM

i'm going to need a better attitude out of khcadwal here.

4/25/2010 9:39:16 PM

If I miss anything, it's my dog

4/25/2010 9:39:47 PM

having a driveway of my own to wash my vehicle in whenever I feel like it

4/25/2010 9:42:10 PM

Quote :

"The southeast, I am tired of the midwest."

4/25/2010 9:43:20 PM

^^^^ well! i'm just being honest!

would you rather i put SEEING YOU AT THE DMV?

4/25/2010 9:48:46 PM

hahah, i had decided to let it go, but now that you mention it i hate you for that time you ignored my wave at the dmv LIKE A WEEK AFTER I MET YOU OUTSIDE OF IHOP. YOU CLEARLY STILL KNEW WHAT I LOOKED LIKE!

4/25/2010 9:50:25 PM

Quote :

"SAD THREAD INDEED"

4/25/2010 9:50:43 PM

being fearless

4/25/2010 10:29:11 PM

I miss the giant front porch at the house my senior year at Elon that we set up the hammock on about this time of year. I loved being able to spend a Saturday afternoon with a book and a pillow in the hammock and then fall asleep in it. Sometimes the train would come by on the tracks right in front of our house and wake me up, but I got used to the house shaking and it was kind of comforting.

4/25/2010 10:29:51 PM

If I made a list of everything I missed you people would get bored as hell

The sad thing is even when I get back to Raleigh and I'll be around all the things I miss, there will be new things I'll miss from here. I'll never be able to win

4/25/2010 11:28:41 PM

MY UNCLE CHARLES, Y'ALL

4/25/2010 11:30:22 PM

got a dead dog

4/25/2010 11:31:12 PM

free time
the house i grew up in (parents sold it 2 years ago)
free time
free time
free time
montana
my childhood dogs bailey & pepper
free time

4/25/2010 11:34:53 PM

Being extra credit for people at State.

4/25/2010 11:37:06 PM

since I've graduated, my parents have moved from my hometown to Raleigh* so really I don't miss that much of my hometown (Kinston, NC) except for Captain's Corner (RIP Captain), a few BBQ places, and just that small town sense of safety

and for the "small town sense of safety" I've only realized that is different from Raleigh since babysitting these past few months...the whole concept of "play dates" is beyond me; I just knocked on my friend's front door if I wanted to play back home/growing up.


*wait...of course there's one huge thing I miss, and that's the house I grew up in. And seeing the house since the new family bought it has been weird. They chopped down the large oak tree in our yard and changed the shutters which completely changed the look of the house. That house I really miss. Occasionally, and only for a mini-moment, do I wish I had gotten married at the home I grew up in instead of my husband's hometown...but it's b/c that house is completely "gone" from our family now (which I always thought they would keep) and not b/c I really wanted to get married there.

[Edited on April 25, 2010 at 11:42 PM. Reason : ]

4/25/2010 11:38:33 PM

Being able to fall asleep not stressed out about work

4/25/2010 11:38:45 PM

Being that guy for the ladies.

4/25/2010 11:39:31 PM

I, too, miss having more free time.

4/25/2010 11:41:50 PM

I miss the days when I could actually enjoy my flex time at work without getting phone calls and emails on friday afternoon guilt tripping me about knocking off a couple of hours early.

4/25/2010 11:49:21 PM

i already said it but i'll say it again. i REALLY miss my mom. like a lot. and now its getting selfish - i mean i'm still VERY sad she's dead obviously. but now like i miss her because i know she'd sneak me money if i was poor or help me come clean my house.

but i am doing dream therapy which is pretty sweet. i don't really believe in that shit but we analyze my dreams and its kinda fun.

4/25/2010 11:50:47 PM

sex
living in Alexander county
my old job
days of no responsibility or culpability

4/25/2010 11:57:06 PM

i miss fearlessly climbing trees
i miss riding my bicycle all over town like 6 times a day
i miss walking around on the roof of the old school looking for shit people would throw up there
i miss playing 4 corners at the pool during the summer
i could on and on and on

4/26/2010 12:06:57 AM

I miss the innocence of childhood...when dreams were big and unencumbered.

I miss my grandparents on my dad's side and my grandmother on my mom's side...and all the wonderful times with them. When I was a child, visiting grandparents had a magical quality to it.

I miss having passion and enthusiasm for my hobbies and my interests.

I miss the days before I knew what it was like to fall in love with somebody and then lose them and the heartbreak that comes afterward.

4/26/2010 12:14:12 AM

heroine

4/26/2010 12:20:09 AM

Quote :

"the whole concept of "play dates" is beyond me"

Play dates are fucking retarded. It's just a yuppie way of saying, "Yo I'm dumping little Timmy off at your place today."

If I want to play with my friends, I'm gonna roll up there on my bike with a pack of Twizzlers and my jump rope

Quote :

"When I was a child, visiting grandparents had a magical quality to it."

Wish I could say that. We lived with my dad's parents growing up and my mom's parents were total jerks

[Edited on April 26, 2010 at 1:48 AM. Reason : .]

4/26/2010 1:46:58 AM