someday I'll put up a header or something in this damn journal

My dad told me over dinner on thursday night "Oh by the way we're leaving for North Carolina tomorrow" for course this was news to me so I spent all night grabbing clothes, doing laundry and generally running around like a chicken with my head cut off while he told me to do other stuff, the same continued friday morning.
See the small problem with not informing the other party going on the trip with you of the departure date is that MAKE PLANS, you know like normal people do. *grumble* so we had to work around my dentist appointment for fitting my crowns (temps) that I had gotten two days before so we left right from the dentist office at one-ish. Once we got in the car and started driving his attitude improved greatly although he smoked like a chimney the whole way up there and back. Cigarette smoke makes my eyes buuuuurn and tends to give me headaches so that was less than cool but otherwise the trip up was good. We got up there late on friday night and wen to huddle house for my favorite waffle in WHOLE world, their strawberry waffles really are to die for, I think in the two days we were up there I ate...5 of them?

Anyway we spent time with my grandparents, my aunt and uncle who were in from Washington, my aunt that lives about 40 minutes away from my grandparents. It was good to see them all and I was looking forward to seeing my only cousin for his birthday which fell on easter this year, we were all supposed to get together for a b-day/easter but he didn't get a project finished for work that was due the next day so no Vince for me and no birthday present for him. This did not make Lindsay happy.

However! when we were on the way out of town this morning we decided to make a small detour to Winding Stair Gap which dad took last year in April by mistake. Oh my gosh it was pretty! he got lots of pictures at the outlook there while I was diggin out my combat boots from the backseat so I could go down the mountainside where I saw a worn path. I grabbed the camera from dad, who didnt want to hurt his back on the little adventure and went solo. I found a HUGE rock outcropping and a beautiful stream/river that was apparently the ice/snow run off from the gap itself. It was kinda scary since there was a steep drop down the gully but I used a nice big tree as a rest and took it slow going back up. Just when we turned around from going through the gap and snapping shots of the ice down the sides, it started to snow! I haven't seen snow since I was about 11 so I was THRILLED! on the drive home we drove through snow on and off through about half of Georgia and I stuck my arm out in it and actually got some on my sleeve Can you tell I'm a true Floridian, through and through? I even packed my flipflops! though they never left the care this trip.

Read two books both were Christmas gifts from Jen, Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton (where I cried in the end, god I'm a sap) and Full Moon Rising by Keri Arthur. Both of them inspired me greatly, Jaime get ONLINE! I'm on serious RP withdrawl T_T

Also, got my art done on my trip, at all. Kinda sad but I didnt have much time for it anyway.

When I got home mom was running around trying to get all the animals fed, we have 11+ raccoons and 7 Squirrels not to mention all the animals we normally have, she was frayed to say the least. That being said it was welcome home, now help me feed animals. Not what I was looking forward to >_>


Well its now 4 am, I'm dead tired but very happy to have gotten all that out here at least.

I need CCS at some point *lazy*