Spring Break - Day 4
Drove from Yreka (still can't get over that fucking name) to Sacramento today.
Northern California (like, WAY north) is beautiful. I drove through the Siskiyou Mountains today. Awesome and amazingly pretty. Took a good pic of some GIANT mountain on my phone. Wish I could transfer pics onto here from there.
Got honked at by a trucker. I'm pretty sure he also had Montana plates on his truck. Let's hope. Either that or we're playing road-tag and I don't remember seeing his truck because there's about a million of them on the highways.
The roads were fairly decent. LOTS of highway patrol out here. More people, though. It was scary driving in Sacramento once I got off of the freeway. People here are fucking nuts. Nobody with a California license plate drives the speed limit. (Always 5+ mph over). Cops don't seem to mind though.
Meeting my sister was awesome. I thought I was going to cry. I actually cried in the car on the way here thinking about it. Then I did, and I was fine. Didn't look like a mental case, which is ironic seeing how our family is... Her dad, Chris, is nice. Her nearly-stepmom, Darcie, is also nice. Darcie's son, Cody, is a good pool player. We went out tonight and played some pool (with his gf Jackie too) and I actually did ok. Surprising.
I haven't been able to sleep very well on this trip. The day I get 3-5 hours, I feel awake all day. When I actually get a full restful night's sleep I'm tired all day. I don't get it. But I miss that hot tub at the hotel last night haha.
Seeing Kuma with Darcie's two dogs is crazy! She has two heelers, which is half of Kuma. It's funny to see what parts of him are so heeler-esque now that I have a comparison. Before I'd only seen German Shepherds so I didn't have any kind of comparison. He gets along with them fine, but his domanince issues are annoying. Hopefully he gets over that too. I notice he's much better about strangers, even men, now. I hope that's the medication working. I figure if I can just keep showing him that not everyone is out to get him or me or whatever that he'll realize not all people are bad. Maybe. Maybe not. I'm glad he's getting better though. Now if only I could get him to behave in the car...
I'm tired. I need sleep. And I have to go deal with family tomorrow, so I'll end this.
I love my sister. So much. I'm so glad I finally get to have a relationship with her that doesn't involve our mother and that she's not doing all the shit she was into when she lived with our mom.
Northern California (like, WAY north) is beautiful. I drove through the Siskiyou Mountains today. Awesome and amazingly pretty. Took a good pic of some GIANT mountain on my phone. Wish I could transfer pics onto here from there.
Got honked at by a trucker. I'm pretty sure he also had Montana plates on his truck. Let's hope. Either that or we're playing road-tag and I don't remember seeing his truck because there's about a million of them on the highways.
The roads were fairly decent. LOTS of highway patrol out here. More people, though. It was scary driving in Sacramento once I got off of the freeway. People here are fucking nuts. Nobody with a California license plate drives the speed limit. (Always 5+ mph over). Cops don't seem to mind though.
Meeting my sister was awesome. I thought I was going to cry. I actually cried in the car on the way here thinking about it. Then I did, and I was fine. Didn't look like a mental case, which is ironic seeing how our family is... Her dad, Chris, is nice. Her nearly-stepmom, Darcie, is also nice. Darcie's son, Cody, is a good pool player. We went out tonight and played some pool (with his gf Jackie too) and I actually did ok. Surprising.
I haven't been able to sleep very well on this trip. The day I get 3-5 hours, I feel awake all day. When I actually get a full restful night's sleep I'm tired all day. I don't get it. But I miss that hot tub at the hotel last night haha.
Seeing Kuma with Darcie's two dogs is crazy! She has two heelers, which is half of Kuma. It's funny to see what parts of him are so heeler-esque now that I have a comparison. Before I'd only seen German Shepherds so I didn't have any kind of comparison. He gets along with them fine, but his domanince issues are annoying. Hopefully he gets over that too. I notice he's much better about strangers, even men, now. I hope that's the medication working. I figure if I can just keep showing him that not everyone is out to get him or me or whatever that he'll realize not all people are bad. Maybe. Maybe not. I'm glad he's getting better though. Now if only I could get him to behave in the car...
I'm tired. I need sleep. And I have to go deal with family tomorrow, so I'll end this.
I love my sister. So much. I'm so glad I finally get to have a relationship with her that doesn't involve our mother and that she's not doing all the shit she was into when she lived with our mom.