so much driving, seriously. and SO HOT EVERYWHERE.
hi flist. i'm home. :D well, i got home last night, but after i unpacked i just checked my email and watched tv until i decided maybe i should go to bed.
shit, i need to catch up on preacher.
random. also i missed killjoys and last night's mr robot, because i didn't get home until after ten, and i didn't want to stay up for the rerun.
anyway. did i mention i was home? and spent today doing a whole lot of nothing? (mostly laundry.) because i am, and i did. look, i spent practically the entirety of the past week either driving, riding in a car, or tagging along as my parents ran errands. so it was nice to not have to do anything or be anywhere.
on the plus side, when i was driving, i got to go 80 in my dad's car and that was pretty fun. also not totally by choice. my mom in her infinite clumsiness flushed her car keys down the toilet in a gas station, and because my dad and i were half an hour away when she finally managed to call us (something was up with my dad's phone - we finally decided it was actually that mom's phone was in a dead spot), i got to speed like anything on the way back. we did not however have the spare key - turns out it was on the moving truck because someone who looks a lot like mom packed it with the kitchen stuff - and while we were heading back to where mom and my sister were, someone was breaking into her car by breaking the driver's-side window. that being the only way to do it, apparently. mom had a little plastic spare key but no driver's window, so for the next several hours, she drove and my sister kept her company and my dad and i followed. and then it rained. >.< and i drove almost the entire day except for a couple hours in the morning before we stopped for lunch. we got to the hotel a little before ten, managed to get food from a mcdonald's right before it closed, and taped a plastic bag over the missing window on mom's car. and then we took the scotch up to the room, because we spent an extra two hours in buttfuck nowhere, georgia dealing with this shit.
fortunately that was monday, and tuesday we only had a few hours to sarasota. mom let my sister drive her car. i rode with her. with no driver's-side window, in the BRUTAL FUCKING HEAT OH MY GOD WHY DO PEOPLE LIVE IN FLORIDA IN AUGUST. seriously. it was so hot. i am not a warm-weather creature and i was not thrilled that the lack of window meant we couldn't turn the air on. *ghaaaasp* on the plus side, we went to the house my parents are renting, and it is niiiice. very open and, er, echoey, as there was no furniture and no carpet. the master bath is tiled blue in a very, very waterfront kind of way, and there are outlets EVERYWHERE. so many outlets. also a ton of closets and storage space, because (as the very nice landlady explained) you don't have a basement or an attic. my parents are going to have to buy furniture and i'm bummed that i won't be around for it.
altho that also means i won't have to keep getting in and out of the car in the BRUTAL FUCKING HEAT, so.
i should've started from the beginning, so i could say we left on time friday morning and drove without incident (i got to drive dad's car) to new jersey (and that night after dinner my sister and i turned on the tv in the hotel room to discover the return of the king was on, which meant we had to stay up to watch it) (it was over at 2:30 >.< ), and saturday we left on time(ish) and drove without incident (i got to drive mom's car) to chesapeake city, md, which is a pinprick town right near the border with delaware on the delaware peninsula, so we could have lunch, and then we drove without incident to another pinprick town in the ass end of nowhere for ice cream. and by "without incident" i mean "we were on little roads in the middle of nowhere and saw nothing except for fields and fields of corn". so. much. corn. it was like a horror movie except the weather was actually ok. i had no idea marylanders even grew corn, but they do! LOTS OF IT. eventually we got back to the highway and continued without incident down the peninsula to the chesapeake bay bridge-tunnel, which is twenty-three miles of bridge-tunnel-bridge-tunnel-bridge across chesapeake bay, and kinda freaked me out. this is the thing: i love bridges. i love driving over them, i love walking over them, i love watching them being built, i love standing on the shore and admiring them. i'm just not sold on twenty-three miles of them across open water.
(what this means is that i'm probably never going to drive across the highway that links the florida keys all the way to key west, because it's a highway over water and i don't think i'll be able to cope. this is a HUGE BUMMER.)
it was technologically really cool, and i'm very disappointed in myself that i couldn't enjoy it like it should've been enjoyed. my mom made fun of me. >.<
sunday we drove without incident (i think i rode with my sister in mom's car) to north carolina to see my cousin, which was nice - she came from wilmington, where she lives, to the hotel where we stayed - that night after dinner we found straight outta compton on tv, which i liked a lot. monday we drove without incident (i got to drive dad's car again) until mom flushed her keys down the toilet. >.< we found a dealer in sarasota on tuesday, so she took the car in and we spent the rest of the time in dad's car which has all working windows and more importantly AIR CONDITIONING.
tuesday afternoon we ran errands, by which i mean we bought sheets and blankets and pillows and towels because all my parents' linens and things were on the moving truck which was still in transit. wednesday we met some of their friends for lunch and spent some quality time figuring out things around the house - like where they should put the couch - and my sister and i hooked up dad's computer altho they won't have internet, phone, or tv for like a week and a half. and then my sister and i came home.
the avengers may or may not have been showing on the plane and i may or may not have watched most of it.
we sat outside when we stopped for lunch in chesapeake city (aka the quaint and pretty ass-end of nowhere), and the people who sat behind us brought a dog (who was apparently blind and deaf and spent most of lunch napping under a chair) and a cat in a carrier. the very first thing the waitress said when she came out was "would your kitty like some milk?" not hi, not "my name is __ and i'll be your server", not anything that servers normally say. the cat's happiness was clearly the most important thing. i thought that was really cute. (the cat didn't want anything. the dog however did get some water.)
we did four states on friday, four on saturday, only two on sunday, four on monday, and one on tuesday. it was a lot of driving and while i'm glad i did it and i like driving my dad's car and my parents are super grateful, i don't feel a huge need to do it again any time soon. i mean, 1200 miles, give or take. it's a distance.
i've been offline for a week, so if anything happened, please to be letting me know.
but don't ask me how it feels now that my parents have moved to florida. it hasn't been long enough for me to form an opinion.
shit, i need to catch up on preacher.
random. also i missed killjoys and last night's mr robot, because i didn't get home until after ten, and i didn't want to stay up for the rerun.
anyway. did i mention i was home? and spent today doing a whole lot of nothing? (mostly laundry.) because i am, and i did. look, i spent practically the entirety of the past week either driving, riding in a car, or tagging along as my parents ran errands. so it was nice to not have to do anything or be anywhere.
on the plus side, when i was driving, i got to go 80 in my dad's car and that was pretty fun. also not totally by choice. my mom in her infinite clumsiness flushed her car keys down the toilet in a gas station, and because my dad and i were half an hour away when she finally managed to call us (something was up with my dad's phone - we finally decided it was actually that mom's phone was in a dead spot), i got to speed like anything on the way back. we did not however have the spare key - turns out it was on the moving truck because someone who looks a lot like mom packed it with the kitchen stuff - and while we were heading back to where mom and my sister were, someone was breaking into her car by breaking the driver's-side window. that being the only way to do it, apparently. mom had a little plastic spare key but no driver's window, so for the next several hours, she drove and my sister kept her company and my dad and i followed. and then it rained. >.< and i drove almost the entire day except for a couple hours in the morning before we stopped for lunch. we got to the hotel a little before ten, managed to get food from a mcdonald's right before it closed, and taped a plastic bag over the missing window on mom's car. and then we took the scotch up to the room, because we spent an extra two hours in buttfuck nowhere, georgia dealing with this shit.
fortunately that was monday, and tuesday we only had a few hours to sarasota. mom let my sister drive her car. i rode with her. with no driver's-side window, in the BRUTAL FUCKING HEAT OH MY GOD WHY DO PEOPLE LIVE IN FLORIDA IN AUGUST. seriously. it was so hot. i am not a warm-weather creature and i was not thrilled that the lack of window meant we couldn't turn the air on. *ghaaaasp* on the plus side, we went to the house my parents are renting, and it is niiiice. very open and, er, echoey, as there was no furniture and no carpet. the master bath is tiled blue in a very, very waterfront kind of way, and there are outlets EVERYWHERE. so many outlets. also a ton of closets and storage space, because (as the very nice landlady explained) you don't have a basement or an attic. my parents are going to have to buy furniture and i'm bummed that i won't be around for it.
altho that also means i won't have to keep getting in and out of the car in the BRUTAL FUCKING HEAT, so.
i should've started from the beginning, so i could say we left on time friday morning and drove without incident (i got to drive dad's car) to new jersey (and that night after dinner my sister and i turned on the tv in the hotel room to discover the return of the king was on, which meant we had to stay up to watch it) (it was over at 2:30 >.< ), and saturday we left on time(ish) and drove without incident (i got to drive mom's car) to chesapeake city, md, which is a pinprick town right near the border with delaware on the delaware peninsula, so we could have lunch, and then we drove without incident to another pinprick town in the ass end of nowhere for ice cream. and by "without incident" i mean "we were on little roads in the middle of nowhere and saw nothing except for fields and fields of corn". so. much. corn. it was like a horror movie except the weather was actually ok. i had no idea marylanders even grew corn, but they do! LOTS OF IT. eventually we got back to the highway and continued without incident down the peninsula to the chesapeake bay bridge-tunnel, which is twenty-three miles of bridge-tunnel-bridge-tunnel-bridge across chesapeake bay, and kinda freaked me out. this is the thing: i love bridges. i love driving over them, i love walking over them, i love watching them being built, i love standing on the shore and admiring them. i'm just not sold on twenty-three miles of them across open water.
(what this means is that i'm probably never going to drive across the highway that links the florida keys all the way to key west, because it's a highway over water and i don't think i'll be able to cope. this is a HUGE BUMMER.)
it was technologically really cool, and i'm very disappointed in myself that i couldn't enjoy it like it should've been enjoyed. my mom made fun of me. >.<
sunday we drove without incident (i think i rode with my sister in mom's car) to north carolina to see my cousin, which was nice - she came from wilmington, where she lives, to the hotel where we stayed - that night after dinner we found straight outta compton on tv, which i liked a lot. monday we drove without incident (i got to drive dad's car again) until mom flushed her keys down the toilet. >.< we found a dealer in sarasota on tuesday, so she took the car in and we spent the rest of the time in dad's car which has all working windows and more importantly AIR CONDITIONING.
tuesday afternoon we ran errands, by which i mean we bought sheets and blankets and pillows and towels because all my parents' linens and things were on the moving truck which was still in transit. wednesday we met some of their friends for lunch and spent some quality time figuring out things around the house - like where they should put the couch - and my sister and i hooked up dad's computer altho they won't have internet, phone, or tv for like a week and a half. and then my sister and i came home.
the avengers may or may not have been showing on the plane and i may or may not have watched most of it.
we sat outside when we stopped for lunch in chesapeake city (aka the quaint and pretty ass-end of nowhere), and the people who sat behind us brought a dog (who was apparently blind and deaf and spent most of lunch napping under a chair) and a cat in a carrier. the very first thing the waitress said when she came out was "would your kitty like some milk?" not hi, not "my name is __ and i'll be your server", not anything that servers normally say. the cat's happiness was clearly the most important thing. i thought that was really cute. (the cat didn't want anything. the dog however did get some water.)
we did four states on friday, four on saturday, only two on sunday, four on monday, and one on tuesday. it was a lot of driving and while i'm glad i did it and i like driving my dad's car and my parents are super grateful, i don't feel a huge need to do it again any time soon. i mean, 1200 miles, give or take. it's a distance.
i've been offline for a week, so if anything happened, please to be letting me know.
but don't ask me how it feels now that my parents have moved to florida. it hasn't been long enough for me to form an opinion.