Ho Ho Ho... ?

Today I realized I may be suffering from a slight case of depression.. It's been almost a month since I arrived here and I haven't started working (well, really working.. it might take a while) and I miss home. I'm getting to that point where you realize you're here to stay and it's not this weird vacation.. So, I guess I'm close to the end of that Limbo I was living in.. Which is good!

I come to realize I might be depressed only when I felt happy again, merely an hour ago. You see, back home I used to run every other day. nothing much (though I aim to run a marathon next year), around 10-15 Km.. I haven't been running (or doing any other kind of sport, besides walking with the wrong shoes) for over a month now, and its depressing. So hopefully, I'll manage to return to my good old habits and run or swim or do some kind of a sport from now on on regular basis (plus, I finally bought a bike, I'm have a vehicle again!).

Speaking of modes of transportation - I finally got my social security number (Yeahy!! I'm a 'legal alien allowed to work') so I can get my driver's license.. So now I have to take the written exam, a vision test and then the driving test. Hopefully, within a couple of weeks, I'll have a car.. which means I'll be able to travel a bit.

On Christmas eve, I went to a neighborhood not so far away (I biked there.. :) it's about 4-5 miles away). This neigborhood is known for its Christmas light up.. You can see some examples below.. I was pretty nice (The view from there was even nicer, it's up on a hill so you can see the entire valley below).

When I came back, I wanted to feel at home a bit more, so I made cookies (I wanted to make bread.. but the two stores I went to were out of yeast.. I wonder why..) anyway here's the before and after. Now I have tons of cookies at home. oh well..