Only a week, and I'm already falling apart.
It maybe the zoloft... my mom wants me to get off it by the end of the summer... I'm down to half a pill every other day.
Or it may be that and the lack of friend interaction.... notice I didn't say "human interaction"... I think I get plenty of that.
My body has weird ways to show that something's wrong. Sometimes I have a lump in my throat that makes me feel like throwing up. Sometimes when I breathe out, I don't feel like breathing back in. I got the throat thing ALOT the last month of school, now I've been getting the breathing thing alot...
Well, the day school went out... around... 5-ish, we (my family) left with luggage and all on a trip to the Olympic Peninsula. Holy. Crap.
I didn't like the idea at first. I didn't want to spend my first few days off trapped in a vehicle. I wasn't having much fun to our first hotel -- The Red Lion Inn... in Aberdeen. I was sarcastic the WHOLE trip there. When we actually got to just Aberdeen... it got worse. I took pictures of the chemical infested water. I instantly knew this place was ghetto. It reminded me of Washougal in a way... but WAY worse. Believe me, it gave me a better first impression than what I think of it now. I never want to go there again. I'm looking around my living room right now... we could've fit the WHOLE hotel room (and bathroom... which was like 2/5 the size of the room, I think it's larger than ours). Oh, and no WiFi... I could've though, if I installed software that I would delete right after... WASTE OF TIME. Even my mom expected more from Red Lion. It was THAT bad.
When we drove around to the Chinese place, then afterwards Safeway, I noticed there was either a liquor store or a tavern on just about every block. There were just a little less chiropractic offices... which were conviently located around the taverns.... At the Safeway... they were emptying boxes, putting stuff on the shelves. Employees were yelling for/at each other.... It was a ghetto town. The next morning, I started. Made everything just below 10 times worse. I couldn't wait to get out of that town. When we did, my mood lightened.
That day we went through the rain forest. We got our fair share of porta-potties. For lunch, we ended up at The Hard Rain Cafe near Forks...
(The rock with spots is a "slug")
(If you can't read, the sign on the left says "Slug crossing", and the middle one says "To cross street, press button and wait for walk signal")
I LOVED that place, even though it was freakin crowded. They had signs, some self-made. One was "If you are upset, complaining, or in a bad mood, we'll charge $10 for having to deal with you. Whining is another $5", then my dad told us the times it was open "We open at 7:30, though sometimes we get here at 6, sometimes 9, and sometimes we're not here at all as we're fishing or hunting. We close at 7, sometimes 8, sometimes 5." Okay, the numbers were thrown around a bit, but it was around there." They have merchandise, and I ALMOST got this picture thingy that sad "The key to SUCCESS" and below was an ancient key pasted on, there was also a happiness one. It was cool. $5.
After stuffing my face endlessly (Yay! I made an oxymoron) with fries (we accidently got one more than we needed... a certain burger CAME with fries), I got MAJOR stomach cramps... not very good while your walking on endless paths through the forest, taking pictures of moss on trees. I had to double over in pain once in a while because before the walk, I asked my mom for Motrin, and she got the bottle that was expired (I swear I was at least 300 feet away from the truck when I asked).
That day, I walked a minimum of 3 miles. Saturday is a complete blur in my head. I can't remember if something I did was on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, but I know that all the rain forest stops were on Saturday, and I'm trying to gather them all in my head, but believe me, it was still a LOT. Maybe even 5 miles, I don't know.
Eventually, we got to Port Angeles. I was going Wireless, while the others walked, went to store, got pizza. Then my parents went to the restaurant. I was on the internet for a few hours, taking advantage of the high-speed of it all. You could see Canada out our window. Some boats on the dock had Canadian flags.
The whole ride back home was dull and boring. I actually got some sleeping in (for once). I had to use a porta-pottie in a gas station that was getting... a large pile... and was out of hand sanitizer.... Then when we got to Olympia, I felt sick. I had a massive headache, which felt like I had hit the side of my head hard against something (which I might've done while sleeping)
Another thing that made the trip worse was what possibly the whole state of Washington indured... heat wave. Holy. Crap. On Sunday, we stopped at Hurricane Ridge.... Supposedly, it's supposed to be cold and really windy... well, I did get to play in the snow there (YAY!!!), but it was like... 75 degrees. EVERYWHERE we went that weekend, was cloudless, wind no more than a breeze (that includes Hurricane Ridge, Port Angeles, and Forks. When we were in the forest, I said "This is supposed to be a rain forest, not a DESERT!" and I've been to a desert). I got an ice-cold coke (chilled to 29 degrees... it said so on the vending machine), played with the snow, then was totally ready to go. Then my dad said something about going on the path. I thought he said that we were going on it, I shook my head no and got to the truck (it was an incredibly long walk). I look back and find they had gone on the path anyway. So there I was, burning on the sidewalk, crouching by the truck as people stared at me. Fun. My mom came first. I let her come to a certain distance between us before yelling out, "ARE YOU PEOPLE TRYING TO KILL ME?!" A skater boy (who I SWEAR I saw when I was getting my Coke. He was talking to an old guy then), turned around to look at me for a split second as he walked with a camp-like backpack on with his family. I admit, he was cute... but I wasn't in much of a mood of staring at guys. And also that fact that he looked like a skater boy... not emo... I'd rather stare at an emo guy any day, well it does depend on who it is, but whatever.
There's so much more that I want to talk about, but I seriously need to get to bed (It's now 5:16 am). I'll continue tomorrow.
Seriously, one of the greatest bands out there. I was on google images, googling for (I admit) vampirefreaks, cause... there's some really cute guys on there (vampirefreaks.com), so, umm... yeah. Then somehow I got a Kill Hannah picture. I remember hearing about them, so I figured I'd check out their web site. First I listened to "They Can't Save Us Now", then "Kennedy" and I fell in love with them. I couldn't listen to any other songs, because my computer wouldn't let me. So I had to improvise by going on their myspace, and making a station on them on Pandora (great site, by the way) so that I could listen to other songs by them. Kennedy and They Can't Save Us Now are still my favs. Raining All The Time is really good, also. Some of the songs sound like there's a girl singing, but it's not. Just plain ol' Mat Devine. Talk about variety in voice. Oh, Lips Like Morphine also good, but instead of "I want a girl with lips like morphine," I think "I want a GUY with lips like morphine. Knock me out everytime they touch me".... I'll stop.... So then, I was on their myspace, and I found something AMAZING! They're playing at the Roseland Theatre on the 3rd... but that's the problem. It's on the third, it'd be a miracle if it wasn't sold out. Seriously. They're also playing with Mindless Self Indulgence (concidentally Skyler's favorite band) that night. Another problem is that I can't find tickets on the internet. Ticketmaster didn't have them. This morning, Matt was talking to my mom about something... some sort of meeting in a way with friends, and she asked who else there was going to be, and he didn't know. So then I asked my mom "What about the concert I want to go to?" Cuz last night, I told my
parents about them, and gave them all the info I had gathered. All Ages. Roseland. Kill Hannah with MSI. 7 pm. No clue about cost or where to get tickets. My dad changed the subject to Emily Johnson, because he knew her dad from way back. So then (going back to this morning), my mom asked "Hasn't Dad said anything else?" "No." "Have you found out about the tickets yet?" "No." "Maybe we could check the Weekend booklet (thingy)." So we did, and BINGO, it only mentioned MSI, but it was July 3, $18, 7:30. Then Kill Hannah must be at 7:00.
OKAY!! Anyway, let me describe KH better to you all. They've got 5 members (Mat, Jon, Greg, Dan, and Garret), 3 guitars, one bass. It's kinda techno-ish sometimes, but I'll say what Steven (He's on Fuse) said about them: Someday, Kill Hannah will take over the WORLD. It's seriously nothing like the current mainstream. They've got a new CD coming out on Aug. 1, and I hope I can get it... eventually. I WILL get For Never & Ever... even though the cover... eh, you have to see it for yourself.
