Mark your calendars, folks. For once, I've made a decision to do something cool and, two weeks later, haven't wussed out and changed my mind.
Yes, the Appalachian Trail plans are still on. I told my whole family about it and they're all really supportive. My mom wants me to get a dog for the trail, I guess so he can do the Lassie thing and run for help if I fall down a mineshaft. I like dogs, and would love to get one. But I can't get one in this apartment, and I don't want to start the tril with a dog I don't know. Does anyone have a kindly, trail-friendly dog who'd be willing to hang out with me for six months? If I had a dog, he would look like this:
and his name would be Drew, just like this dog. If you live in or near Superior, WI, please go adopt Drew from the Animal Rescue Federation. It costs $110, and that includes the cost of getting him fixed. Dogs are cool.
In other news, Christmas is going to suck this year. First of all, we have to do Christmas with my new stepfather and his family. Don't get me wrong, they're good people, aside from the bible-thumping. It's just that they're a big family, and we're a little one, so all our traditions are getting swallowed up. Like, okay, Christmas Eve, right? We don'y have much family around. So we always have people over who don't have family around. A friend of my Mom's who's going through a divorce, my friend who doesn't have enough cash to fly home from college for the holiday, an old lady from down the street whose husband passed away this year... stuff like that. And we sit around and eat food and watch Christmas movies, and play board games... and it's no big deal, but usually a lot of fun, and a nice thing to do. Or like my A-number-one-most favorite holiday tradition is that on Christmas morning, we wake up early and do stockings, and then instead of opening all the rest of the presents and lounging around, we go out to the local community center, pick up food from the meals-on-wheels people, and deliver them to old people. Again, a really nice thing to do, and a way to combat some of the sickening commercialism of the holiday. But we're not doing those things this year, and it makes me sad.
And okay, on top of that, right? My work? They're Grinching me out of a holiday! They're giving us two float holidays, one for Christmas and one for New Year's. But my boss is taking off the week between Christmas and New Year's, and I have to cover her work. SO I can't take Christmas Eve, cuz it's the last day she'll eb there to explain stuff to me, and I can't take the Mnday after Christmas, or New Year's Eve because she'll be out. So when do I get to use my Christmas holidays? Yeah... Martin Luther King Day! I mean, I liike Martin Luther King more than any other historical figure other than maybe Che Guevara and FDR, but MLK Day just isn't Christmas.
*Sigh* okay, so it's not really going to suck, but it sire takes a lot of the fun out of it...
Yes, the Appalachian Trail plans are still on. I told my whole family about it and they're all really supportive. My mom wants me to get a dog for the trail, I guess so he can do the Lassie thing and run for help if I fall down a mineshaft. I like dogs, and would love to get one. But I can't get one in this apartment, and I don't want to start the tril with a dog I don't know. Does anyone have a kindly, trail-friendly dog who'd be willing to hang out with me for six months? If I had a dog, he would look like this:
and his name would be Drew, just like this dog. If you live in or near Superior, WI, please go adopt Drew from the Animal Rescue Federation. It costs $110, and that includes the cost of getting him fixed. Dogs are cool.
In other news, Christmas is going to suck this year. First of all, we have to do Christmas with my new stepfather and his family. Don't get me wrong, they're good people, aside from the bible-thumping. It's just that they're a big family, and we're a little one, so all our traditions are getting swallowed up. Like, okay, Christmas Eve, right? We don'y have much family around. So we always have people over who don't have family around. A friend of my Mom's who's going through a divorce, my friend who doesn't have enough cash to fly home from college for the holiday, an old lady from down the street whose husband passed away this year... stuff like that. And we sit around and eat food and watch Christmas movies, and play board games... and it's no big deal, but usually a lot of fun, and a nice thing to do. Or like my A-number-one-most favorite holiday tradition is that on Christmas morning, we wake up early and do stockings, and then instead of opening all the rest of the presents and lounging around, we go out to the local community center, pick up food from the meals-on-wheels people, and deliver them to old people. Again, a really nice thing to do, and a way to combat some of the sickening commercialism of the holiday. But we're not doing those things this year, and it makes me sad.
And okay, on top of that, right? My work? They're Grinching me out of a holiday! They're giving us two float holidays, one for Christmas and one for New Year's. But my boss is taking off the week between Christmas and New Year's, and I have to cover her work. SO I can't take Christmas Eve, cuz it's the last day she'll eb there to explain stuff to me, and I can't take the Mnday after Christmas, or New Year's Eve because she'll be out. So when do I get to use my Christmas holidays? Yeah... Martin Luther King Day! I mean, I liike Martin Luther King more than any other historical figure other than maybe Che Guevara and FDR, but MLK Day just isn't Christmas.
*Sigh* okay, so it's not really going to suck, but it sire takes a lot of the fun out of it...
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i know that prolly doesnt help...but...it's a cool quote. use it as a mantra or something, chanting it whilst eating your Frosted Mini Wheats.