Oct 16, 2008

Busy...Busy...Busy...

Omg I'm exhausted. I've been meaning to write this out for a couple...days...a week...I don't even know any more. But I feel like I've been so busy the last couple days I'm so happy that today is Sunday and tomorrow's Monday because that means that my dad's not home and he's mostly the driving force behind doing things that normally cause everyone to become so tired. Granted it's all fun stuff, and stuff we like, but it's just so effing tiering. Let's rewind a little and go back to last Friday;
My mom got a temp job about a half an hour away from our house from 9-6 while my dad works in the other direction in the downtown area of Orlando from 8-5, and I'm free 24/7 so it was my job to drop dad off at his work, then to drop mom off at her work, then pick them up accordingly. Which was fine gave me something to do and I got the car all day so if I wanted to go to the library or to the park or something I could it was nice. But I had to wake up at 6 so we could be out of the house by 7 so my dad would be in to work on time and same with my mom, again fine just have to switch my sleeping schedula no big do it all the time. But what really got me is the last few days starting about Wednesday- well really it started earlier then that with our older cats starting to act up and what not, but that's later -my dad's really getting annoyed with our older cat's because they just meow non-stop and what not so my dad has taken to letting them outside, which makes me just nervous as hell because neither cat will keep their collars on, plus the people that drive down our street don't always go the speed limit (which is about 25). And well he didn't come home right away he stayed out for a good couple hours which got me kinda worried but then he game home. So then we didn't let him out again, so Friday rolls around and I take mom and dad to work then come home and just hang out around the house, then I went to go pick up my dad and my car's tempature needle was all the way on top of the 'H' and white smoke was coming out from under the hood, so I made it to my dad's work parked in the parking garage and shut the car off I looked under the hood and nothing really looked any differently, but then again I know like next to nothing about anything under the hood. So my dad got off work and I told him and he tried starting it, we sat there and waited for it to cool down and we can't leave it over night because it'll get towed. We were able to get it started after a while of letting it cool down and we got it to a place where we could leave it over night until we could figure something out.
Luckily we ended up near two buss stops, we called the Lynx buss system and the frist lady told us to get on the comply oposite buss so we waited like half an hour for the wrong buss before we called again and got told we needed the buss that we just saw pass by. All the while we're trying to figure out how to get my mom home, since she's all the way up in like the pikard woods with no real way of getting home, she walked about half a mile to a buss stop but really didn't have any money for it. So we called the only people we really know in the Orlando area and asked since they were out if they could swing up and pick her up they did and she got home. While my dad and I waited for the buss which wasn't bad at all considering that it could have had been a whole lot worse.
One: It could have had been pouring down raining like it had been the day before.
Two: We could not of had our cell phones.
Three: (most likely a MAJOR positive) It was Friday and not like Monday or something.
We got home alright once we were on the right buss and everything though we didn't get home until like about 9 at the latest. The next day my dad went and let Jack (our cat he let out earlier in the week) out again around 9 or 10 in the morning and we were going to walk down to the buss stop and head out to Avis (a car rental place) at around noon and he still hadn't come home yet so we had to head out with out brining him back in first. But Dan and Brian (you have no idea how much they have saved us and how often) were heading out to Casco so they swung by and picked us up, instead of us walking and taking the buss, dropped us off at Avis were we picked up our little blue Ford Focus, which we rented for a week. Then we went to were we left my little car and sold it to like a 'U-Retch-It' type of place where people can go and get what part(s) they want from it, for about 150 bucks. I took out the radio and all my stuff, but it still felt a little like I was betraying it or something. I mean it was my frist car, and I'd basically bought it all by myself and it kinda meant something to me. It blew a head gasket- according to the guy we sold it too -and since it was an older car theres always something going wrong with it and always at the most inaportune time and I and my family just do not have the money or the emotional strength to deal with that stress on top of all the other kind of stuff we have to deal with.
So afterwards we went and looked at some newer cars Kia Rondo then my parents went around and looked at different cars while I stayed home and waited for Jack to come home. My parents ended up doing some paper work to see if we could get the used '07 Kia Rondo that we all liked and I think they said that we'd hear back by Monday or sometime during the week. So I really hope that we get it, it would help my parent's feel better about our situation, and it would just be really nice to have a car we don't constantly have to worry about weather it'll start every time or not. Anyways Jackie came home about 11 that night safe and sound, we all think he's got like a girlfriend out there some where or something because he's always trying to get outside, and I don't want him to get hit by a car or cat-napped (literally) or something. While I was waiting for my parents to get home I got really bored and I've been wanting to get a trim for the longest time, so I found some scissors and cut my own hair. It actually didn't turn out that bad, all things considered, apparently I just made like a 'V' with my hair since I was pulling it forward over my shoulders and what not.
Then Sunday morning I asked my mom to even out and it looks good, definitely a lot cooler. My parents and I all got washed up and went to an Art in the Park thing which had some interesting things, but we didn't buy anything. After that we went to the Pride Parade down town Orlando, it was amazing that there were so many major stores and companies that were there and supporting GLBT (Gays, Lesbians, Bi-s, Transvestis), Disney, Best Buy, Sprint, Chase where just a few I remember off hand with out looking at my cameras- I took a lot of pictures I don't think I'll post them all in this blog idk yet. We got there around 1 and didn't leave until around 5 it was just so great the parade and all the vendors and what not; It's just so amazing to see so many people out to support Gay Rights.

Also please everyone vote 'NO' on Ammendment #2, which- if passed -will keep legal mariages strictly between man and woman. So please vote AGAINST it.

Well I think that's about all, I'm pooped and I think I'm going to crash soon.

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