Yeah. So I'm spending my Valentine's Day on DDO playing with a bunch of other people who don't have someone share their VD with.
Lame.

My sister and I are having fun planning out my brother's birthday party. We're both the kind of girls that have more fun planning parties out then going to them, so we're enjoying ourselves tremendously. We harrassed him until he chose a theme he'd like (we could only get him to pick after we threatened him with a pirate clown theme). He chose 'casino'.
Games:
Poker, Pit, Ninety-Nine (played with chocolate coins), Phase 10 Dice, and a few two-player PS2 games.
Favors:
Miniature decks of cards, loaded dice, chocolate coins, and a special mix CD.
These are the invitations my sister made:

I had a shitty evening and a shitty morning.
Last night I had to drive my sister to the social security office or whatever and I on our way back we got lost. Turns out almost all the main roads here have more then one name.
Eighty turns into Marshall and Standard turns into the Loop, etc, etc.
We were forty miles off track. About the time we realized this and called my mom, who I hung up on after she started to laugh, we were starving so we stopped at a McDonalds. I’m not sure what exactly it was, but I got sick immediately afterwards. So much that I couldn’t drive and my sister had to take over.
THEN it got dark, which made it even harder for us to find our way home. So we finally found a road we recognized and turned off on it and when it intersected with the road that would have lead us straight home we took a left instead of a right. At least it only took us five minutes to figure out we’d done that and we didn’t end up in some stupid little town we’d never even heard of before that.

So this morning my mother was supposed to get up and take my sister to her doctor’s appointment and guess what?
She stayed up till two in the morning. She was supposed to take her and I was supposed to baby sit, but no.
I took her AND the baby. Ellie decided that since I’m the one that got them lost last time, she would pick the route this time.
We got lost and had to go through a school zone three times at seven thirty in the morning. I hate driving.

My mother has HCV... She's probably had it for twenty years or more (from my biological father, her ex-husband who was a needle user). I did some research t see what the chances were that my brother and I inherited it and sources said only 5 of 100 mothers pass it on to their babies. Hepatitus C is spread by blood-to-blood contact. The chances of transmission of HCV by sexual means are approximately 1 - 3% (the only exception being coitus during menstruation).

Between the four of us (my father, my sister, and my brother) it is most likely that my sister and I at some point or another contracted HCV because we use the same razors as our mother.

Hepatitis C is a contagious viral disease that usually leads to serious, permanent liver damage, and in many cases, death.

I don't know what we're gonna do. I don't know if I can handle something like this. It was horrible seeing my grandmother through her chemo therapy and the treatments I've been looking up have some pretty scary and nasty sounding side-effects that sound very reminescent of the things my grandma went through.

I don't know if I can handle seeing my MOTHER go through it too.

I'm sick... I had better be over this cold before my sister and the baby come down. That would be just really frikking rotten luck that I be sick the first time I get to see my niece in person.

My sister has been in labor for almost twelve hours... I wonder if they'll make her wait the full twenty-four hours before they give up and perform a c-sec.

Just got DDO. Looks cool, but good God, lag drives me crazy.

I'm almost done with Kingdom Hearts II and Sora just threw him around a certain silver haired bishy's knees and cried.
This makes it... what.... third time in the game (thus far)?

>:-(

I think I feel a pretty scathing review coming on.

My first niece is due in four weeks. My parents decided to take complete advantage of my sister's situation to show me just how uncool pregnancy is.

Holy fuck. Blue twinkies?! THAT SHIT DOESN'T HAPPEN IN THE MOVIES!!!

*vomits*

I still check ASE off and on but (obviously) haven't posted anything for a while... I've done scarcely anything online lately.
My aunt had surgery a few days ago and I've been going over to her place in the mornings to help out. I go at six (because that is when her boyfriend and his son leave for work and school) and come home at three. I spent the night over there the other night, but I don't think I got enough rest, because I got up twice in the night to remind her to take pain pills. It was trippy because I started awake both times, slightly panicked that I'd overslept, only to glance over at the clock to see I'd woken up right on time. Right now I'm totally exhausted and I'd better go to bed now if I plan on waking up any time before noon tomorrow.

I haven't been this pissed off at anyone since I got beat up in sunday school...

It started a year ago when my cousin Coleen came by during my birthday party and did not say one word to me.

A little while later she found out she was removed from Grandma's will along with everyone else except my parents and siblings. Woo hoo, that sure fixed our relationship.

Then she accused me of all sorts of interesting things. 9/10 were false. I was knocked flat on my ass by all these accusations because after five months with not one kind word I really wasn’t expecting any kind of full out verbal assault on my person that she gave me right then.

During a visit with Grandpa, in which my parents and I were present, she suddenly lit into how bad homeschooling was (our method of education). Grandpa broke up the debate and she immediately left.

Then last month my ten year old cousin, Anna, gave me a message from her older sister, Kim, who sometimes visits with Coleen. She said that I should never agree to go anywhere with Coleen unsupervised because Coleen was talking about hauling my ass off and beating the shit out of me. Yay!

An hour after Anna went home her father, my uncle, called and told me Anna made it all up. I wonder how he found out? He said apologies and I accepted even though I think he's shitting me too now. Anna is ten and she is mentally handicapped! Seriously, she is in special ed classes and exhibits many of the traits of an autistic child. How could she come up with something that elaborate on her own?! Plus, I never told her to any greater or lesser degree I wouldn't bat an eyelash if Coleen chocked on her saliva and died right in front of me so she got the idea from someone other than myself.

But it was yesterday that topped it all off. Coleen came by while we were gone and snatched our stereo out of the back yard. Nobody comes into the back yard. Nobody can even see the back yard because of all the trees. Coleen called that afternoon (she was coming by to visit Grandpa) and asked if my brother and I were home all day. My mother told her we weren't because we were out shopping.

During the visit she mentioned that someone had stolen something from her apartment so mom mentioned our stereo. Coleen then immediately piped up to say that she and her boyfriend were going to come by to visit, but didn't, because they were too low on gas.

Grandpa is sure she did it too.

I hate her. It was only a forty dollar stereo, but I still hate her.

Llama told me to look on the bright side: "Just cross your fingers and hope that she dies from an overdose of crack she purchased with the money she pawned our stereo for."

I love him. Ittaizentai: Mind over matter. I don't mind, 'cause she doesn't matter.

The trip was, if you can conceive, the easiest one yet. Honestly, we only had one flat tire, the tail lights only malfunctioned half of the way, and we were able to remove that rock that was thrown into the brakes of the van and caused them to screech like a banshee for about three minutes.
Riding with Mom was far less a vexation then I thought it would be. I probably only drove a little less then nineteen hours in a nearly two week long drive. It wasn't to do with my driving skills (or lack thereof). Mom is just incapable of resting when someone else is driving. The point of my driving was so that she could sleep and so she wouldn't be tired when dad wanted to drive from six o'clock in the morning till midnight...
That worked like, super frikkin well.
(Actually it didn't)
(At all)
Things went along much more smoothly upon exiting Canada. Gasoline in Canada averaged $2.20 (Canadian) per litre.
Fluid Conversion (approximation):
4 litres >>> 0.9 gallon
Currency Conversion (approximation):
$1 (Canadian) >>> $1.18 (American)
That is $8.80 (Canadian) per gallon of gasoline and $10.38 (American).
We endured one Canadian radio talk show were they bashed "the American socialists" because we oppose the 27% tariff on lumber bla bla bla and because Alaskans largely oppose taking the pipeline through Canada.
It just so happened we had an anti pipeline trans Canada bumper sticker in our possession and we attached it to a random Canadian resident's vehicle.
I got a post card (for FREE! from this nice dude at a gas station that laughed at me when I had trouble figuring out the coins to purchase all of the weird candy and a few bottles of water) of an albino moose. I wrote a date on it and I’m going to frame it and put it in the living room or something. It says on the back "A rarity of nature, only about one in ten thousand moose have a white coat.". It is really very cool because I've seen two albino moose on separate occasions.

We live in Elderville (omfg ELDERVILLE!), Texas now. Except our address says Longview, Texas because Elderville doesn't have a post office. Elderville...

ELDERVILLE!

It was super cool to return to ASE to find out that I came in second in the four year contest. YAY! What a killer anniversary present!

I've got a long drive ahead of me. A loooong loooooooooong drive.

With my mother.

That is going to suck.

We're making lots of stops to greet family and whatnot.

Alaska > Washington > Oklahoma > Texas.

I probably won't have my computer hooked up before Haloween.

That would be my three year anniversary on ASE.

Ellie's baby is due sometime around May 17th. It's the size of a large carpenter ant right now. Mom is now firm in her belief that it will be a girl based on the speed of the heart beat. I guess slower means girl? Can't remember, I thought it was stupid so I didn't really take it to memory.

A couple days ago this drunken native man followed me to the car (FOLLOWED ME TO THE CAR!!!) and asked for a dollar and I (honestly) told him I didn't have any money on me. I hate pan handlers. My dad knew a guy that wasn't homeless and made more money a day pan handling then he did working an honest job.
*shakes fist pan handlers*

I got my provisional driver's license. It has now been firmly established that I am the bomb as all of my friends failed the first time. The picture doesn't look half bad either.

Almost done with geometry and I've still got an A average grade. YESSS!

I'm worried about Grandpa. He hasn't answered the phone or my e-mails.

I'll call him again when I'm done writing this.

Oh what do you know.

I'm done.

P.S. I got a hold of Grandpa.

Found my mom's old palm pilot so I can record library book due dates and other such things I have a tendency to forget.

I had a cup of coffee and an apple tart after lunch and now I'm going crazy.

My brain itches, I can't hold still, and I'm not getting anything done.

I so suck.

Week days now start at six in the morning.

School is a piece of cake.

I'm painting a picture of a bird house in water color. It doesn't look too bad so far.

It is so cold. 40 this morning.

Oh. And I had a bagel for breakfast.

It was the best.

My chipper mood has evaporated.
I'm in charge of 'mapping' on our trip down to Texas.
The last time we did that I ended up getting yelled at most of the trip.
That is just craptastic.
Won't be on the computer(or anything else that might be fun or liesurely to me)much for a while because I'm going to be eating and breathing Geometry cause I've got to finish six seven part chapters by October 1st.
Still sending boxes to the house in Texas.

Heh.

Went to the gym the other day. This woman brought her toddler (he looked like he was almost four) son in the women's locker room (when she SHOULD have taken him to the FAMILY locker room).
Really pissed me off.
He's old enough to remember what I look like naked.
Which, he in fact, did.
Cause the little fucker took a peek in my shower and got a nice long look.
I chewed his mother out and directed them to the family room.

It's been another completely meaningless and uneventful day but it's still been good. What with me getting over my cold, making fun of friends, and chatting on the phone with my sister. I grinned so much today my cheeks hurt. I had sushi the day before yesterday and it was good. I'm not really into the raw fish so I get the california rolls, ebi maki, kappa, anari(omg yum) and such since none of those have raw fish(shrimp and surimi aren't the same as raw halibut). Maybe I'll convince Dad to get an old video at the Blockbuster or something. That would just make my day.
Unless Solca called and apologized for being such a sucky friend...
But I digress, an old Bruce Willis movie would be acceptable as well.

Just starting to recover from my cold.
Got an A- on my first geometry test this year. That's good I suppose.
My parents want me to finish geometry and my drivers ed classes by October 15 so I'm busting my ass.
My sister's twenty-seventh birthday is in a few days.
...
Yeah I think that's it.

Our phone was disconnected for five days because (or so my mother claims) they didn't recognize it when she paid through the Wells Fargo website (or something to that effect). Whatever happened it really sucked being without internet and phone.

I went downtown and took a bunch of pictures. Unfortunantly there has been smoke all over Anchorage blowing in from the penninsula fires so everything was kind of hazy and it was hard to breathe. My dad's cigarette smoke bothers me. It was horrible.
Then it rained.
And rained.
And now I've got some kind of head cold.

So all in all I had a crappy week end. Except this guy asked me out at the library. Woot.
One of my ear piercings is infected. Piercings are stupid. Especially infected piercings. I should never have done it.

Me working seven hours and then having to the laundromat and then come home and cook equals not a happy person. The only down side to spending the summer R.V.ing in Kincaid is having to go to a laundromat. I was tired and grumpy and I did NOT want to go do laundry. But I did. Because even though I whine a lot I still do what I'm asked. I was sitting in the laundromat, which was really busy that Saturday, and kind of just staring off into space... I really hadn't been paying attention until I heard the guy across from me whimper. I think his girlfriend had mistaken my glazed expression for ogling her boyfriend. Because all of a sudden she started groping him and was smirking at me from over his shoulder. I can understand her confusion. How could she have known I was looking at the wall right above his head? Was she just being possessive or giving us a show?
So she's mauling him in the laundromat. He looks like he's died and gone to heaven and she's looking right at me while she's doing this.
I'm thinking: WTF? Why is she looking at me like that?
....
Oh.
Then I laughed and she glared and I moved my seat. It would have been even funnier if the owner had noticed and had booted them out.

I made the mistake of looking at one of my brothers' friend's MSNSpace. It was very disturbing. He's fifteen and all he seems to think about is girls, and in a very graphic manner. I actually thought he was thirteen (and by all appearances he is) until Llama informed me that he is in fact fifteen.
Spent all afternoon watching video cassettes and playing Starship Titanic. So all in all it was another uneventful day.
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Yep. Another misleading title.

Yesterday my mother offered to let me to trade in the shirt that she bought that didn't fit for something I'd like... She offered to take me to the library... She took me to the Mammoth Music and GameSpot...

All of this in one week.

This leads me to one conclusion...

She wants something. From me. That I will not give her just because she suddenly shows abnormal interest in me that will vanish as soon as I agree that staying in Alaska is to our mutual benefit.

...However she doesn't know that yet. So I'm going to enjoy that fact that I get to go to all the places I want at least until she realizes that I'm a lost cause and goes back to her usual routine.

Maybe I'll read outside. I'm starting to look at bit sickly next to my sun-kissed friends. I don't think a tan is worth the time, money, burning, increased rate of skin cancer, or the possiblity that my face might look like my aunts if I tan as much as they did. They look like shriveled up old monkeys and I'm sure one of them has skin cancer.
My dad got Friday off so he took me to the Library among other things. I got a whole stack of books and a Ranma 1/2 video.

The Oath - Frank Peretti
Faith of the Fallen - Terry Goodkind
Sun in Glory - Mercedes Lackey
The Treasured Ones - David Eddings
Nightfall - Isaac Asimov

There was this humongous bull moose in the park today. He had the biggest rack of this year's yet. And there's this itty bitty calf in the flower field on the other side of the fence. I've seen it on more then one occasion, but no way in hell am I going to get anywhere nearer, even if it would make a cute picture. I really don't feel like getting stomped into a bloody pulp by the cow... And I'm gettig pretty frikkin tired of people stopping in the middle of the road when I'm trying to go somewhere to ogle the moose. Full grown moose are ugly! Why would you want a picture anyway? They're like... horse slash camels.
And they stink! They smell like cows at worst. There are all these huge flies that buzz around their arses. Why would you want a picture of that? Especially at the risk of life and limb! In Alaska it is actually a legitimate excuse to be late from class if you call and say there is a moose in your front yard. This one kid got trampled to death on campus a year or so ago and an aquaintance of mine got charged by one and it broke both her legs and her pelvis.
Once we tied up this guy, pulled his pants down, then a moose came along, and we legged it with him still tied to the tree. We got in sooooo much trouble... It's not like he would have died, we didn't tie him up so bad he couldn't get escape and the moose was like twenty yards away at least.
I'll never forget the expression on his face.

So I went to the Midnight Magic Party for the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince... I pre-ordered it some four months ago... Lol. All that waiting and I finished reading it in a day. So now I'm back to waiting for Kingdom Hearts 2 and FF7: Advent Children. I love reading but I can't really afford it. I am capable of reading 800+ pages in one day. So if I read three 900 page books a week that would cost about $60 up here.
I'm going to take several different art classes next school year. I really like photography, English, world history, and art. But art is the subject my family and friends encourage me to take up the most. For my best friend's birthday I'm going to draw her something and I'll use my new watercolor pencils. She's always asking me to draw things for her so I hope she likes it. My sister got me Photo Shop 3 and several other programs after she saw the stuff I was doing with that crappy Photo Studio 2000 SE. It was really thoughtful of her to download all that stuff for me considering our usual routine. I'm thinking about getting an account with Art Deviant, I'll be sure and post on ASE if I do.

So I've finally finished all my school. It's been a long time since I actually finished everything I'm supposed to by the end of the school year. I actually earned this vacation. Lol. Once I break up with my beau and wipe the satisfied smirk off of his face then I can be at complete peace. My best? friend recently broke up with her fiancee and has began to take up hanging out with me again. She lost weight, went to Baja, went to prom, got laid, and had a fiancee all in one month. So, she's extremely condescending at the moment. First boy she's ever been with and she wants to marry him. First boy I've ever been with and I want to drown him in the inlet or at least drown myself before my dad finds out. Maybe I'm jealous?
Nah... I don't want a fiancee or a trip to Baja, I just wish I had more confidence. Then I never would have been with that ass hat in the first place.