so far, Plattsburgh has been great fun. I've had a really great time already. Only downside is I just had one of those nightmares that sticks with me all day. is it gruesome that whenever I have a nuclear bomb dream, usually there's a flash of the weather channel with some ridiculous but terrifying thing in the forecast. Like having the weather icon for the next day be a mushroom cloud. or predicting highs in the 100,000s of degrees. silly things like that that actually scare the fuck out of me.

in this one I drank ammonia when I saw the bomb plane go overhead and I survived anyway. it was one of the worse ones I've had, especially lately.

anyway it's hard as fuck to update on my sister's phone so I will leave off by saying I'm having fun and I miss you all. ♥

So I just found out, just as in five minutes ago, that last month my brother was hospitalized for threatening to kill himself after his on-again off-again girlfriend dumped him (again).

This means he's lost his job, fell down stairs, was under observation for a night, and he's living in a dirty trailer in the middle of nowhere with his friend and the girl his friend is pretending to still like so they won't get kicked out of her house.

What's the best way to convince a prideful 22 year old to leave a place that's no good for him?

Hell, what's the best way to integrate my inebriated brother and his two pit bulls into the house that may not be peaceful now, but is at least bearable?

I don't know anything that's going on with him, good or bad, and it seems like there's been more bad for me to miss than good. :(


Tomorrow I have to be out of the hotel by 11am. I think my parents are going to have breakfast with me and Dennis before they leave to go to Maine. I haven't even hit the pool properly because my stomach hurt so bad. :/ There's still plenty of time to go to the Oxbow, and it's going to be NINETY FUCKING DEGREES every day this weekend. ughhh. I wish we could keep the pool access until Sunday...

So tomorrow is the day I settle down at Kelly's for the next while. Hopefully I won't melt into her couch before the end of my stay. xD I may fight the cat for the cool spot on the kitchen floor...

So far things have been pretty good. I got my tattoo touched up today by Andrew ♥ who is still fucking adorable and I gave him those two things I still had from his mom's class... so hopefully she'll be happy to get that back. I've spent a lot of time with Amber and Kevin and Kelly, and I saw Kristin briefly yesterday. It was awkward.

On Kelly's couch yesterday I ended up watching most of season 2 of Weeds. Even not knowing what was going on, it was strangely compelling... and pretty funny too. Plus I watched the first two episodes of True Blood and I'm probably going to finish the first season while I'm here. I'm almost done with the Farseer trilogy, but Cornerstone didn't have any other books, so if/when I get to the mall, that's on my to-do list.

I'm kind of worried about my parents leaving me alone here, but I'm fucking 24 years old and I need to man the fuck up and stop being scared. :( There's nothing for me to worry about except how much I miss my cat, seriously.

Anyhow. victoriansquid, I don't have your number because I have my sister's phone, could you e-mail it to me? Everyone else, I hope you're having nice days and excellent stuff happening, and I miss y'all. ♥



Oh, and congratulations to all the winners at the heroes_slash awards. :)