amatyultare

*groans* I have to 'get up' in less than three hours to get ready and leave for PortConMaine (which I'm so excited about!) and I haven't even finished packing yet...craziness. But, it's going to be fun!

Have no energy to talk about my day. Short story: training was interesting, a little crazy with the huge number of acronyms and codes and such, but kind of cool. Came home to find out that while the house was empty this afternoon (Mom went out and E and I were at work) Ray had come over, come in through the (accidentally unlocked) back door, and proceeded to do things...like mow a random path through the tall grass behind our house, try to fly a kite (it's still on our porch), bring in my laundry that was line drying outside, and set a live frog loose in our living room. I mean, it's Ray so it's pretty harmless (it's not like he's going to attack us or do anything *bad*) but it's just kind of creepy that he was wandering around in our house when we weren't there.....anyway, he called after Mom got home and she yelled at him a bit.

My life is so crazy...

But, positive thoughts! Just to remind y'all where I'll be this weekend (although I will try to update if the hotel rooms actually have internet access):



Must go finish packing and perhaps get a couple of hours of sleep....later, all!

Grr. Or, as B would say, gao.

Today was pretty normal--I applied for a few jobs online, read a bit (Seven Years in Tibet--so interesting!), etc. E was away at various graduation parties (she's graduating tomorrow! It's so crazy!) and Mom spent most of the day with Ray.

But then, after dinner, Mom convinced me to go with her and Ray. First we went out for ice cream, but then Ray decided to drive Mom's SUV out through the back roads to 'show us nature' i.e. cool bird and frog calls. From back paved roads, to back dirt roads, to driving across the field...and then he got it stuck in a marshy spot. We tried to push it out (Ray driving, of course), but it didn't work--and poor Mom got half-covered in mud in the process! Ray had forgotten to bring his cell phone, so he had to walk about a mile to a farmhouse to get help, while Mom and I stayed in the car (being eaten alive by bugs, because Ray decided to talk to us for ten minutes from outside the car with the door open). The nice farmer came and got us; apparently it was too dark and wet to try pulling Mom's car out, so he drove us home and Ray is saying he'll use his AAA membership to get help tomorrow.

I know that I should probably look on this as an adventure, an experience, blah blah blah, but I'm really not in the mood. I'm all itchy from bugbites and my poor sneakers are completely soaked with mud from pushing. Plus, Mom has to get up really early tomorrow so she can get to her school and help set up chairs for their graduation, and we didn't get home until after 11. Oh, and did I mention this is apparently the second time this week that he's gotten her car stuck? (I didn't know about the first time until tonight--apparently Mom was able to push it out last time.)

I really don't understand why she still hangs out with this guy...

Anyway, I'm probably going to head to bed soon. Later, all!

To do tonight/this morning:

Finish costume (hem collar)
Take a shower
Pack
Burn CDs
Sleep...maybe

Tomorrow (later today) I'll be at Colgate! With all of you cool people!

By the way, I remembered that I'm keeping my crazy tee-shirt a semi-secret, and two semi-secrets in one con is one semi-secret too many. Plus, apparently people have the idea that I'm cosplaying as Hinoto...which I'd love to do sometime, but if you think anyone short of a professional seamstress/tailor could make a Hinoto costume in a week, you are, no offense, certifiably insane. So--I'm cosplaying as Fenryl, Princess of Disaster, from Pretear *points to icon*. My hair won't be right, since hers is floorlength, and I won't have green eyes (unless I can find cheap green contacts) but the dress will look really nice!

Ray keeps calling our house. As in, he calls until the answering machine picks up (we've stopped answering it), he hangs up, and then calls back 10 minutes later. Around 9:30 E came to my door calling out "Quick, Ama! Go online before he calls back again!"

Now I must continue hemming. It's almost done! And I will see you guys very soon!

P.S. Not to whine or anything, but I will be completely unsurprised if my fingers are bruised tomorrow.

I'm home, I'm safe, everything's good, except I hate dialup. A lot.

I met my mom's 'friend' Ray (they're not 'going out' or 'in a relationship' but they're sleeping together, so whatever). He's a nice guy, although he reminds me a lot of my dad; that's not surprising since he's also an alcoholic. Oh yes, and Ray has ADD. Still, a pleasant enough guy.

Not much is new here, which is par for the course for central Maine. Oh, and my house is cold--very cold. On Sunday our chimney sort of--exploded? I'm not really sure, but we can't have a fire downstairs (we use wood heat) and I am freezing.

On the bright side, one of my presents for Christmas is money to spend on eBay. Hooray! That's really why I'm so impatient with the internet; I want to order anime and it's taking forever!

Anyway, back to waiting for pages to load. Hope everyone is having a great break so far!