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So I went to Ohio for Thanksgiving. The drive there was about 14 hours and I slept about 2. I drove for 6 and then when I got there I was exhausted, but I didn't sleep. Instead, the family made me stay up ultil after we ate and everyone else came to the house and all that happened. By 8 I was barely able to stand up to go to my bed.
Well as it turns out, nothing has changed in the three years since I was last down there. The cousins got a Playstation2, the older cousin got *another* girlfriend, and the younger of the two grew his hair out and is becoming more and more like a redneck.
So I was at my grandmother's house just chilling after a tryptophan overload, and my aunt was on the computer looking at some Ebay stuff she wanted to buy. Well, just as she was going to check out, my uncle walks up and says to her "Get off the computer, I want to show Karen some pictures." (Karen is my mom). So what does my aunt do? She gets right off of the computer. Wtf? Isn't that abuse of some sort? So later on, when Kevin, my uncle was talking with my grandparents, Trisha wasn't even allowed to sit with them to talk with them. Sigh. Maybe I don't have the mental capacity for such grown-up things, but I don't think that's right.
So I took second shift on the drive home last night. But since it was torrentially downpouring I didn't get any sleep as my mom was driving. So I'm going on about 8 hours of sleep in the past 48 hours and I feel great. I think I'm going to drink a Bawls to keep me up til the end of this post. Whatev.