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I don't think I have to ask them, is the thing. If they're not busy, and they really never are, they should figure I might like some help if I'm shoveling by myself

So....I feel like snot. Road trip to Florida was just Hell on wheels, no question about it.

First off, my mom wasn't even sure if we should go, since my uncle has cancer and he's not looking good. But everyone in the family insisted that we go, so we packed our bags and I came over to spend the night on Sunday evening (since we were leaving Monday morning). We even dragged my 15-year-old brother along, even though he wasn't even sure that he wanted to come.

So Monday comes along, and Mom has the flu. She's our ONLY driver. But knowing that this could be our LAST chance to get the rest of my things from Florida before SUMMER, we push on anyway. As payment for this MASSIVE favor she's doing for me, I have to read her textbooks out loud to her so she doesn't fall behind in her college classes, since she obviously can't read while driving. Not a problem right? The books I have to read? "The Last Dance" which is about death and dying and the ethics involved, "The History of God" which I'm sure you can guess what that's about, and "The Holy Bible." Fortunately I didn't have to read the Bible (ran out of time for that one) but I wanted to GOUGE MY EYES OUT WITH A MINNOW for "The History of God". That wasn't fun. Oh, and me and my brother caught her flu (well, I just got a cold for it, my brother got the flu part...my immune system just rocks).

We decide to take the trip in 3 days, spending 2 nights at various aunts and uncles houses since my mom is so ill. We spent Tuesday night in SC with my uncle, and while there we got a call saying that my uncle with cancer has started to ask for his family. Instant panic. So Wednesday we take off from my uncle's house in SC and drive the rest of the way to Miami. In Jacksonville we stop and rent a U-Haul so that we can bring ALL of my things back to Vermont with me. We make it to Miami, spend about 2 hours packing up the U-Haul (which was really too big for my stuff, but it was the smallest they had and we were desperate), turned around and started BACK to SC. Our intent was to pick my uncle up along the way so that he could be there for the dying uncle. But he couldn't arrange it with work on such short notice, so we left him in SC and pressed on to Virginia to pick up my aunt. Before we arrived though, we were called by my grandfather (who's been giving us the updates on my dying uncle's condition). He informed us that Vermont was expecting another massive blizzard, and that he wanted us to stay in Viginia for another day and head out on Saturday. My aunt and uncle were totally against that (and so was I for that matter) so this morning we left around 5am in hopes of beating this blizzard. We weren't entirely successful.

Between Virginia and Vermont, I had called my boyfriend to inform him that I was coming home, and I was bringing a trailer, and could I pretty please park it at his place until the next day? He said no problem, he'd start clearing out a spot. A couple of hours later, his mother calls back and says that her lease doesn't allow for things like a trailer to just be hanging around the property, and she didn't want to get in trouble for that. But there was NO place else we could think of to park the trailer. She was nice enough to located a U-Haul station where we could return it within the same town though, so we decided to bring the trailer to Swanton, unload it, and return it...all today. By the time we were 90 miles from home (within the state even) we got another call from my grandfather informing us that the situation had become desperate, and that my dying uncle needed to see his family ASAP. Time to haul a** in a blizzard with a U-Haul. We ended up just coming to Fairfax and ALL the way I was trying to keep my poor boyfriend informed of what's going on, and within a couple of hours the conversation went along the lines of "we're bringing the trailer to Swanton...we're keeping it in Fairfax....now we're bringing the trailer to Swanton...no, we're keeping it in Fairfax..." My poor boyfriend just wanted to know what was going on, but by that point I was just so stressed that I snapped at him. He offered to come pick me up, but EVERYONE was saying that the roads were just too bad.

So now I'm stranded at my parent's house in Fairfax, and I just wanna go home so I can say that this nightmare of a trip is finally over, but no...a BLIZZARD just HAD to hit today, and now I'm stuck here waiting for someone to call me to tell my that my uncle is dead! crying


How was everyone elses day?

kay, my day wasn't that bad yesterday, but it wasn't far from it... brother almost broke my nose, then some drama and stuff on WoW where somebody basically attacked Ome for nothing, he went off the deep end at her, and then I saw a video cut from an episode of cops where some florida police officers bashed trans people in general x.x

aye, things haven't been easy going lately, and now I think I have a cold to top it off

You should wear it, actually. It'd look awesome on that avatar.

NG, I fear you miss the beauty of the fresh grass skirt, so green, so fresh, so grassy, little grasshoppers can't pass up the chance hop over and have a little nibble, and it is then you strike out with your claws and have a tasty meal! (Rubs mantis belly) Yummy grasshoppers! (licks mandibles) The Queen shall never go hungry in this skirt. rofl

XP Should have said it earlier, I sold it to a friend.