Take me home country roads.

[theredbamboo]

It seems I've reached that point where I went back to somewhere I once belonged and realized... I don't know what I was thinking. I tried to make the best of this vacation to West Virginia but my sister and my aunt kinda ruined it, or maybe I'm just a belligerent teenager (very possible... hey, I can't control my hormones). Regardlesss of the ever present friction I managed to amuse myself with my camera. I spent a lot of time in the woods by myself, I missed home. I went clothes shopping. West Virginia has no economy so brand new name brand jeans are like $2.... no joke. It's awesome. So once a year I buy a bunch of clothes... happiness. I met up with who I would call my therapist (he fixed my depression last summer). Yea hard to explain but I guess the how isn't really important... not to me anyways. I picked 7 pounds of blueberries at Don and Linda's farm. Linda used to be a puppeteer for Mr. Rogers... interesting couple for sure. Went swimming at Seneca rocks... saw blackwater falls. All shit I've done before but my sister wanted to sooo... she got to call all the shots (said of course with that hint of contempt). I hung out in the meadow naked alot and watched flies nibble at my open wounds ( I know it's gross but I really had nothing better to do). I got drunk a few nights.... lost 2 flashlights, my sisters shoes, and my mind. Talked to Lauren a lot on the phone which is probably one of the few(only) things that kept me sane (Thank you). Also spent everyday on the phone with my mom and she's like "Wow, you're calling me everyday.... you must be having a horrible time." Yep, then I talked to Nathan and begged him to save me cause he's awesome and crazy like that so he was gonna get a bus there and we were just gonna start walking... somewhere, but he got lost in the woods as always but I talked to him yesterday and he's alive. So then I got my flight changed to go home on the third instead of the ninth and so my flight got cancelled and I was stuck in shithole yeager Airport for 5 hours.. There is NOTHING to do in a WV airport. I freaked out on the guy in charge of changing tickets cause I screamed at the top of my lungs, tore my hair out, banged my head against a wall, and then sat down and bawled my eyes out(I apologized to him later) Me and my sister used our food vouchers on a slice of pizza and met this older man who'd been in the Navy 30 years and in fact lived many of the places we did on account of my father being in the Navy 20 years. We reminisced and he was my father for an hour... then he left. Then my sister left and I was on my own for 2 hours. I was piss poor at this point not a dollar to my name and I was discussing with a friend on ways I could earn $2 once I got to Atlanta so I could buy myself a drink... ya know put out a hat and sing or sumthin' but then this nice lady walked to my bench and said "I didn't mean to overhear you but I have a daughter your age and bless your heart, hope this will help" She handed me $10 and I was exstatic. I jumped up and hugged her and told it was all I needed and that lady became my mother for 3 minutes. I get to Atlanta... guess what! Flights delayed so I walk the whole airport looking for a Diet Coke to spend my well earned cash on but lo! I find the shittiest dirtiest whole in the wall of a room in the airport and glance at the sign... ahhh the smoking lounge! So a cigarette later this black gentleman comes in and bums a cigarette and starts telling me how I remind him of his home in California and that I should go there and visit berkley cause I belong there. I find random ideas from strangers always turn out for the best. Then we spent my delay time talking about anything and everything and he was my brother for one hour. Then I got to my gate... flight got delayed yet again... whatever I eventually get on my plane and make it home and then life goes on from there but then again... I only talk about what happens in other states... cause stuff that happens out of state doesn't really have anything to do with me does it?

I'm just confused or as some would call it complicated.
*hands you a rock and closes her eyes and points to her head*
It'll help... I promise.

Pictures---> http://blog.myspace.com/theredbamboo (I havn't figured out how ta do this the right way yet)