The Yearly Camping Trip
...has finally ended. Begun: August 9th Ended: August 14 Good thing too. Unless my grandma, grandpa, mother, and step-father had left me there with everyone else then I probably would have been driven even further over the edge than I have already gone. I think that there is just something about me that sets their nerves on edge. Most of the time I don't even have to try to get them going, and when I do try it's like I'm setting off a volcano. It can be rather interesting, at times. Mostly because they get so upset and I'm still all calm. If it had been last year's camping trip then I would have exploded right back at them. But now I don't really think it's worth it. Now when I get upset I don't yell or scream, I go away and deal with it another way. It was rubberbands all week, because I had promised not to cut myself. I hate breaking promises, so I always do all I can to keep them.
Pictures of the trip to Black Lake Here are select pictures from the trip, including several of what my tent looked like after the rain :P
Anyhow, other than the occasional tensions between me and those four people the trip was pretty enjoyable. We went to Black Lake instead of Pete's Lake, and it actually wasn't all that bad there. We were in an area all by ourselves until Friday night and we liked it that way. I shared a tent with my cousins, Kendra and Rachel. Everything is still the same as it's always been. When we went in to go to sleep we always ended up talking for at least half an hour before we drifted off. Not about anything special, just talking for the fun of it. I have always liked doing that with them and I don't think that'll ever change. Especially talking with Kendra. Even though a lot of the time I feel like the family views me as being in competition with her I still like her. It's really hard to not like her, although I have managed to several times.
We went into Mackinaw City on Saturday. We being me, Kendra, Rachel, Aunt Cherrie, Grandma Jackie, mum, and Nick. I think we spent around four hours there and I enjoyed every minute of it. In those four hours I laughed and smiled more than I have in the past month or so. Mostly because me, Kendra, Rachel and Nick seperated from the other three to explore the city on our own. Not that the term explore is really correct, since I know that city so well after having gone there so many times. But I use it for lack of a better one. One of the best parts was when I led Kendra to Sugar Daddies, the candy store. Because she is totally in love with Jelly Belly jelly beans, it's so funny. When she saw the wall filled with all the different flavors she just about passed out with ectasy ;) She is too funny sometimes. Although she did spend about a fifth of the time on the phone chatting with her new boyfriend. I think it's the fifth or sixth one now. Hopefully this one turns out better than the last few. If the pattern holds true then I'll be meeting him by Halloween. We all had a sort-of lunch at this really neat diner in the Crossings. They have the best fries ever, especially their special ones. I had a serving of Ranch Fries and they were soooo good. Oh, my favorite purchase of the day was of my little Happy Bunny pin. ^_^ It says: 'I love everybody. except you pinheads.' Love it! After lunch though me and Kendra wandered the main strip of shops alone for around an hour before meeting up with everyone else. Then we wandered for another hour before heading back to camp. My legs were a little bit sore by then. Although now they feel antsy because I haven't climbed the hill to get to the place where I sat every morning for an hour or so. The stairs aren't a very good alternative.
I think that one of the best parts of the camping trip (other than spending time with my cousins and just hanging out in the woods and water) was how I faced Keith down about five times. I love my grandma Jackie, I really do. But there are times when I just want to scream at her because she's so dense and single-minded. And when I do say something to her that is anything but respectful Keith gets after me for it. He wanted me to yell at him, I know he did. That way he could say that I lost my temper. But I never yelled. I just used sarcastic remarks, and truthful ones, and glared right back at him until he looked away. Only it was never exactly a glare, it was more like a really icy look. That's what Kendra called it anyhow. The left corner of my mouth would curl up a little and my eyes would go really cold. Never hot-anger, just cold, icy anger. Or extreme dislike, hate even. Later he whined, actually whined!, to my mother that I was acting like a spoiled rotten princess just because I wouldn't back down. I don't have to back down to him, I never have had to. And it drives him absolutely crazy when I don't, which is perfectly alright with me.
Actually started reading A Bright Red Scream last night. But it's so HARD for me to read! Not because it's difficult to understand or anything, but because I can relate to some of these things. It's like looking in a dark mirror of myself. And it is quite difficult. I only made it through the Introduction, Preface, and first chapter (The Walking Wounded) before I had to put it down. The fact that I had taken sleeping pills and was dozing off helped with that.
Well that's enough babbling from me for one day, I believe.
Pictures of the trip to Black Lake Here are select pictures from the trip, including several of what my tent looked like after the rain :P
Anyhow, other than the occasional tensions between me and those four people the trip was pretty enjoyable. We went to Black Lake instead of Pete's Lake, and it actually wasn't all that bad there. We were in an area all by ourselves until Friday night and we liked it that way. I shared a tent with my cousins, Kendra and Rachel. Everything is still the same as it's always been. When we went in to go to sleep we always ended up talking for at least half an hour before we drifted off. Not about anything special, just talking for the fun of it. I have always liked doing that with them and I don't think that'll ever change. Especially talking with Kendra. Even though a lot of the time I feel like the family views me as being in competition with her I still like her. It's really hard to not like her, although I have managed to several times.
We went into Mackinaw City on Saturday. We being me, Kendra, Rachel, Aunt Cherrie, Grandma Jackie, mum, and Nick. I think we spent around four hours there and I enjoyed every minute of it. In those four hours I laughed and smiled more than I have in the past month or so. Mostly because me, Kendra, Rachel and Nick seperated from the other three to explore the city on our own. Not that the term explore is really correct, since I know that city so well after having gone there so many times. But I use it for lack of a better one. One of the best parts was when I led Kendra to Sugar Daddies, the candy store. Because she is totally in love with Jelly Belly jelly beans, it's so funny. When she saw the wall filled with all the different flavors she just about passed out with ectasy ;) She is too funny sometimes. Although she did spend about a fifth of the time on the phone chatting with her new boyfriend. I think it's the fifth or sixth one now. Hopefully this one turns out better than the last few. If the pattern holds true then I'll be meeting him by Halloween. We all had a sort-of lunch at this really neat diner in the Crossings. They have the best fries ever, especially their special ones. I had a serving of Ranch Fries and they were soooo good. Oh, my favorite purchase of the day was of my little Happy Bunny pin. ^_^ It says: 'I love everybody. except you pinheads.' Love it! After lunch though me and Kendra wandered the main strip of shops alone for around an hour before meeting up with everyone else. Then we wandered for another hour before heading back to camp. My legs were a little bit sore by then. Although now they feel antsy because I haven't climbed the hill to get to the place where I sat every morning for an hour or so. The stairs aren't a very good alternative.
I think that one of the best parts of the camping trip (other than spending time with my cousins and just hanging out in the woods and water) was how I faced Keith down about five times. I love my grandma Jackie, I really do. But there are times when I just want to scream at her because she's so dense and single-minded. And when I do say something to her that is anything but respectful Keith gets after me for it. He wanted me to yell at him, I know he did. That way he could say that I lost my temper. But I never yelled. I just used sarcastic remarks, and truthful ones, and glared right back at him until he looked away. Only it was never exactly a glare, it was more like a really icy look. That's what Kendra called it anyhow. The left corner of my mouth would curl up a little and my eyes would go really cold. Never hot-anger, just cold, icy anger. Or extreme dislike, hate even. Later he whined, actually whined!, to my mother that I was acting like a spoiled rotten princess just because I wouldn't back down. I don't have to back down to him, I never have had to. And it drives him absolutely crazy when I don't, which is perfectly alright with me.
Actually started reading A Bright Red Scream last night. But it's so HARD for me to read! Not because it's difficult to understand or anything, but because I can relate to some of these things. It's like looking in a dark mirror of myself. And it is quite difficult. I only made it through the Introduction, Preface, and first chapter (The Walking Wounded) before I had to put it down. The fact that I had taken sleeping pills and was dozing off helped with that.
Well that's enough babbling from me for one day, I believe.