Past Few Days

It's been a peculiar past few days.

My body loves to flip and rotate when I sleep and when I wake, so the past few days had me on a schedule of 9 AM bedtime and 6 PM wake-up. Meh. I think I'm now on a 1 AM - 6 AM schedule... dunno how long it'll last.

I've been on and off socializing with my sister and her friend during the times that I'm awake. They stay until all hours of the night. Speaking of which... my sister and our mother got their second tattoos yesterday, and my sister's friend got his lip pierced. As I sit here with only two piercings per ear, I feel like I'm so mild compared to them. Both the tattoos are nice and tasteful (my sister's was more unconventional and cute--a rainbow star on each knee), so I have no complaints. They still keep asking me when I'm gonna get one... but my mom hates my idea and I don't see myself ever sitting still for a needle. Ever.

That and I don't have the money... as I learned painfully yesterday. Somehow my account has overdrawn by $200, which means I'm probably gonna wind up $400 in the hole before it's all said and done. Means a 25-minute trip to the bank this morning when they open in about an hour. Fortunately, my mom and stepdad were nice to me about it (as usually they handle these things with lots of yelling), so handling it wasn't as bad as I thought. Still... I'm having to go back through my records to see what the hell went wrong.

(It's probably due to damned fuel prices, as I've been driving so much this summer that I've been fueling more than I should. That, and I'm a sucker who will buy completely unnecessary things for people just because they say they want it. Sigh. Luckily I'm headed back to Columbus within the next three weeks, and staying with Dad had taught me frugality [is that a word?]. Apparently I need to go relearn my lessons.)

The only big news to report in the coming week is that Mom and Mike (my stepfather) will be headed out of state on Thursday for a 5-day trip to Panama City Beach, Florida. They told us that if we could get the money, we could take some friends and go. However, as I no longer seem to have any money... if everybody pooled together money to go, I'd be unable to attend. I have a nasty luck when it comes to "vacations." In fact, I never take them. I always get sick or have feminine "issues" right upon arrival. That, or the weather refuses to comply.

Y'know, I'm gonna stop talking about it before I get frustrated or sad. I'm gonna see about possibly downing a bowl of cereal or something before I have to go make this trip to the bank. From there, I'll come home and... I dunno. Lounge.

I need to make sure I'm online at a decent time today... I've been suffering withdrawals.