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It's been an emotionally challenging week for me. So what better to do on a lazy, rainy Friday night after a glass of wine and strawberries than to sit down and write a blog, which i actually don't do enough of these days!

I've said it many times, that I would love to be an American citizen. The USA is like my second home. I love the people, i love the culture, i love the shopping, i love the food, i love the scenery - there isn't much i DON'T like about it. In fact, i've even said to some people that if i could have citizenship on the grounds that i don't return to Australia, I'd willingly give it all away.

But this morning, I was actually trying to send a private message to a famous Australian singer called Guy Sebastian, a story in itself, when i noticed that the doors were closing at the station i was meant to get off at, thus missing my stop, some bizarre omen perhaps haha....

When your stop is at central station (the main city station), your train then proceeds to travel in what's called a 'loop'. It's the city loop. It travels around 5 different stations before arriving back at central again.

If you happen to be on the loop, you will stop at Circular Quay which is very picturesque and quite spectacular, particularly on New Year's Eve.

I rolled on towards the city loop and as i was arriving at Circular Quay, a sudden wave of homesickness washed over me. I think it was partly because of my emotionally charged week.

It wasn't a homesickness for somewhere else, but for my own city and my own country, which is very unlike me. I felt this whimsical pang of warm, fuzzy inertia-like nostalgia. A feeling that brought tears to my eyes and made me all choked up. Here i was, looking out over Circular Quay, and if i chose to, I could alight the train and stand and overlook the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House, one of the great wonders of the world, for hours on end, until my heart was content.

As it was, i was going to work and didn't have the time to stop and smell the roses as such.

But for that moment, i was content with where i was. I appreciated everything that i already had and took in the fact that my city and my country are, in fact, so beautiful. I know it so well, it's familiar to me and it will always be home, i will always feel at ease in this city.