Ms. Brightside
I haven't updated because my internet is actually just one of those free AOL discs. And because the internet is boring unless you're really into porn. So let me summarize. (Summer-ize?...haha...ha)
Two days after I got home from Huntington, my laptop went crazy and I had to reinstall Windows. I thought I'd lost every bit of art, poetry, and schoolwork I'd done over the past two years (not to mention Sims 2 stuff...SIIIMS!!!). I was able to recover it, though. I think it was my graphics card that screwed up. ATI sons of bitches...
Also, our washing machine broke and we had no washing machine for two weeks. It's a good thing I keep a stock-pile of fresh socks for just such an occassion. This breakage happened not one week after my mom quit her job at Jeff's Appliance, which is irony no matter what Alanis Morisette might say. We eventually did get a new washing machine, though.
I got to go out and party some and I've been working a lot, and I saw some of my "old friends" but only a couple times. I'd like to call them but for some reason I'm phone-phobic, I always think I'd just be bothering people so I don't call. I did get a cell-phone though, which puts me at the coolness level of my 13 year-old cousins. Shazam! I also did some swimming and started doing pilates. I am so hot now! But you already knew that.
The biggest sadness of the summer has blossomed recently while taking care of the financial end of my father's death. It is just so damn expensive to die these days. He had some money in the bank from where my grandmother died last year, but not much, and there was a $10,000 life insurance policy when was split between my brother and I and our uncle. When Dad died in February my uncle said he would give us his $5,000 chunk of cash to pay the funeral and burial expenses, since he's pretty wealthy anyway. Well, six months later we've finally got everything squared away enough to receive the money, and the bills from the funeral home and cemetery began arriving. We should have had about $3000 apiece left over for my brother and myself to spend, which we were both going to invest in cars. My brother got his car, it's hot! Anyway...it was about this time that my uncle decided that he didn't want to pay for any of the funeral, since he really hated my dad and didn't want to use any money for someone towards which he had so much hostility. Of-course he doesn't seem to care that the bills for the funeral are in--whose name? That's right, my name! He went out of his way to insult my mother and brother for doing nothing with their lives, so it's not his fault if we can't afford it. And we can't. So...basically I get nothing. Actually I get less than nothing because after giving all the money we did receive to the funeral home, we'll still owe them. And I wanted that damn car so bad I could taste it, I even went out looking at a few prospects the weekend before I found all this out. The worst thing is that I would never expect this from my uncle, and I wonder how anyone raised by my generous grandfather could be so selfish. Blarg!!! I am so disappointed about it...why can't my family just be normal?!
In other news, I was walking my dog and he was attacked by another dog, and they got into this big dog fight. Then the owners of the psycho dog came out and grabbed their dog. So now my dog hates all other dogs, and makes it a point to try to escape to attack all other dogs in the neighborhood. We got him neutered, but now he's just an angry, castrated husky-mutt who hates all other dogs (but loves people). And he's got worms now, too, so I have to take him to the vet Saturday to get medicine. The financial drain will never end!!!!!
Well I'm going to shut up now so I can play Resident Evil 4 before I go to work. That game is one of the best games I've ever played. I loveses it!!!!
Two days after I got home from Huntington, my laptop went crazy and I had to reinstall Windows. I thought I'd lost every bit of art, poetry, and schoolwork I'd done over the past two years (not to mention Sims 2 stuff...SIIIMS!!!). I was able to recover it, though. I think it was my graphics card that screwed up. ATI sons of bitches...
Also, our washing machine broke and we had no washing machine for two weeks. It's a good thing I keep a stock-pile of fresh socks for just such an occassion. This breakage happened not one week after my mom quit her job at Jeff's Appliance, which is irony no matter what Alanis Morisette might say. We eventually did get a new washing machine, though.
I got to go out and party some and I've been working a lot, and I saw some of my "old friends" but only a couple times. I'd like to call them but for some reason I'm phone-phobic, I always think I'd just be bothering people so I don't call. I did get a cell-phone though, which puts me at the coolness level of my 13 year-old cousins. Shazam! I also did some swimming and started doing pilates. I am so hot now! But you already knew that.
The biggest sadness of the summer has blossomed recently while taking care of the financial end of my father's death. It is just so damn expensive to die these days. He had some money in the bank from where my grandmother died last year, but not much, and there was a $10,000 life insurance policy when was split between my brother and I and our uncle. When Dad died in February my uncle said he would give us his $5,000 chunk of cash to pay the funeral and burial expenses, since he's pretty wealthy anyway. Well, six months later we've finally got everything squared away enough to receive the money, and the bills from the funeral home and cemetery began arriving. We should have had about $3000 apiece left over for my brother and myself to spend, which we were both going to invest in cars. My brother got his car, it's hot! Anyway...it was about this time that my uncle decided that he didn't want to pay for any of the funeral, since he really hated my dad and didn't want to use any money for someone towards which he had so much hostility. Of-course he doesn't seem to care that the bills for the funeral are in--whose name? That's right, my name! He went out of his way to insult my mother and brother for doing nothing with their lives, so it's not his fault if we can't afford it. And we can't. So...basically I get nothing. Actually I get less than nothing because after giving all the money we did receive to the funeral home, we'll still owe them. And I wanted that damn car so bad I could taste it, I even went out looking at a few prospects the weekend before I found all this out. The worst thing is that I would never expect this from my uncle, and I wonder how anyone raised by my generous grandfather could be so selfish. Blarg!!! I am so disappointed about it...why can't my family just be normal?!
In other news, I was walking my dog and he was attacked by another dog, and they got into this big dog fight. Then the owners of the psycho dog came out and grabbed their dog. So now my dog hates all other dogs, and makes it a point to try to escape to attack all other dogs in the neighborhood. We got him neutered, but now he's just an angry, castrated husky-mutt who hates all other dogs (but loves people). And he's got worms now, too, so I have to take him to the vet Saturday to get medicine. The financial drain will never end!!!!!
Well I'm going to shut up now so I can play Resident Evil 4 before I go to work. That game is one of the best games I've ever played. I loveses it!!!!