Thoughts and such

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

The past few days, may have been some of the worse I have ever had. These things will not be listed in chronological order, or in level of importance. To start things off, we had our septic tank back up on us. Which of course means, there was shit, in our shower. Literally. Fortunately we got it cleaned out and the septic problem fixed, at about 12 in the morning, on a school night. Needless to say, much sleep wasn't to be had. Nextly, my car battery died. For some reason or another, my driver door was left ajar in the garage. Which leads to a battery draining. It is the only mechanical problem I've ever had with my Jeep. But, we got that all fixed up by way of a "trickle charger", it's used to recharge things. . . .somewhat slowly. After that, I started it up, and let it recharge itself back up, in about 15 minutes, Green Meanie was as good as new, or as before anyway. Nextly, my Grandmother passed away on Monday, sometime in the very early morning. Her funeral was held today, March 21st, on my birthday. Which in itself, isn't too aweful bad. Because had it been a day or two later, I would've been in Florida, so I am somewhat grateful that her time was able to come at a slightly convenient time. It was the first funeral I had ever gone to. My other Grandmother on my father's side passed away before I was born, and my Grandfather on my father's passed away when I was about 4, so my parents thought it not appropriate for me to go to that. It was a short and simple funeral, as my Grandmother was somewhat of a simple person herself. Niether her or my surviving grandfather are the showy type. The reverend performing the ceremony sang a couple songs, they were very nice. The feeling there was pretty much surreal. We all stood in a green tent-like thing, while the wind howled. Everyone pretty much held there heads down, and cried, while the reverend sang, and read some verses from the bible. It really felt like those scenes you see in the movies, something the cinema can get right. I kind of had one of those moments where you feel closer to god during the ceremony. Almost when you feel like someone has their hand on your shoulder, and they're letting you know that everything is going to be okay. One thing that the reverend said that I kind of took to heart, was that we shouldn't be the ones crying, she should be. All of her troubles and worries are gone now, we're the ones that still have hardships and problems to overcome. Well, enough of that. Needless to say, it kind of gave the entire day a nasty overcast. Afterwards, we went out for dinner, to celebrate my birthday, although I don't think anyone really felt like it. For some reason, whenever we went to someplace, the hostess/waitress/clerk would ask us how our day was going. I suppose they're kind of obligated to though. To top even that, upon arriving home, I discovered a vrius on my computer. Well, big whoop right? Nope. When you personally have paid over $2,500 for something, it doesn't seem like a big whoop. It wasn't some little pansy virus either, it was a mean ass. It corrupted all of my Norton files, so I couldn't even find it and delete it. So, I made the half-hour trip back to our old house, to pick up all of my backup software. I then made the half-hour trip back here, what fun. All-in-all, everything has been pretty much mended. I still have a good hour of homework to do, and it is currently 11:53 p.m. Only one more day of school before Florida, and Spring Break though. I finally understand what people mean when they say, "Man, I need a vacation."

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