The Mad House

Day one of the Atlanta horrors.
Cleaned the woodwork all morning, that wasn’t so bad. Then Lane [my brother] starts yapping about how moving to NC totally ruined his life and it was so perfect here and blah blah blah. In truth, it was worse down here. So he was all, “Well I know I was kind of insane, but still!” and I go, “You’re STILL insane.” And DJ laughed and said he was about to say that, and then my mom starts crying and goes all, “You leave him alone!” So, there’s nothing wrong with him? He didn’t stand outside of my door on Sunday with a crossbow, saying he was going to shoot me with it and kill me because mom loved me more than him? Because SHE was angry with him? And he’s never done that before? Never thrown knives up the balcony at me? Never stabbed my hand? Yeah, right. He’s perfectly fine. Ughh. It just annoys me how she thinks he’s so perfect when he’s into drugs, alcohol, he smokes, he steals, he lies, he threatens people, he’s violent, and a lot more. I don’t do ANY of that. And suddenly I’M the bad kid? Um, no. I make A’s and B’s, one C, and I’m actually passing the eighth grade. He failed, had to stay during the summer a little longer, and my MOM did his civics online. And she says he’s smart and creative. Suuuure.
Poor, poor Lane.
So, I sat there and held my Chihuahua for like half an hour cause I was angry and playing guitar hero on my phone. He’s nice to hug when there’s nobody else in the state that you would even go near.
Then I wanted to take a walk, but was afraid I’d run into somebody I knew. So, I got dressed and put on make-up and did my hair. I was in my empty room, with no mirrors when I was getting dressed- since Lane was in the bathroom and I only really needed that for my hair/make-up. So I walk downstairs, and Lane screams. My dad covers his eyes, and my mom goes, “Oh my GOD, Sydney!!” and I’m like, “…What?” So, she rushes me upstairs, away from the eyes of the guys. Apparently my shirt was see through, and you could see perfectly my hot pink Charlie the unicorn bra. Lovely. So I put on a tank top. Forty-five minutes later, my make-ups done and everything. I take one step outside, and I’m like melting. I look down, and there are SIX mosquitoes on my legs within a minute. So I ran, to shake them off, and I get down to “Heath’s” house. My mother says his name must be in quotation marks, because he is HEATH. I used to like him when I lived here, and I must tell you he’s gotten really freaking buff. He’s hot, in short. So he’s outside mowing his lawn, and I waved. Why I waved, I have no idea. He waved back, turned the mow-y thingy off and walked over. He’s all, “Are you new here?” and I’m all, “Nope. It’s Sydney, remember?” and he’s like, “Sydney…?” and I’m like, “Sydney Blair, from second grade?” and he’s like, “Oh! SYDNEY! I’ve missed you!” and then he hugged me, with all his sweaty man muscles. So then we talked a bit about how North Carolina was and how all of my old friends are and blah blah blah. Then he’s all, “I should probably get back to the lawn and stuff, my dad’ll get mad if I take forever cause I was talking to a girl. You know how he is.” Cause Heath’s dad is like, really anti-social, and thinks that everyone else should be, too. He hates girls, especially- except for his wife. Just around Heath. So he has to deal with a LOT of teenage girls. Heath was cute when he was younger, so all of the girls liked him then, too. So I was all, “Yeah, I remember. –laugh- I’ll be in town for a few days, maybe I’ll see you around?” and he was all, “Yeah, sure. Just drop by whenever you want- don’t be scared of the old man. He liked you better than the other girls, anyway.” Like he’d actually remember me. But still. I was at his house a lot, since it took like two minutes to walk there. One if you run, like I did. He’s right around the corner. Like, one house away from mine- but there’s the curve, so it’s a little longer than just walking past one driveway. It’s like two houses if there was no curve. SO. I was like, “I’ll make sure to come see you again before I leave, maybe we can go to the pool or something.” And then he was all, “Yeah, sure. See ya.” And then he hugged me again, and I waved and walked back home. When I got back I was like, melting. I was sweating through my make-up, of course. Then I washed some window and cleared away some cobwebs, and sat down to play with my phone and post on facebook and stuff.
Trixie went all vicious on Brownie and like, ate him.
So, Lane’s been voted off the island to stay with my half-brother and his wife, Trixie went all cannibal on Brownie, and I’m pretty much going through withdrawal.
Just so you know, I type my blog throughout the day, as things happen. So if I go from angry to totally happy, that’s why. I’m not just super bipolar or something.
My half-brother and his wife came over today, they’re AWESOME. I’ve missed ‘em lots. Ali’s really cool, she’s amazing. Then Russell’s my brother, the dude with the foot long curly beard and like a million tattoos. We gave then a baby grand piano, and made Ali cry. I took like 17 fuzzy pictures of them, and my dad got it right on the first try xD I pocket dialed grandma while I was taking a picture, and I heard the ring, so I stopped it and put it on lock. Then while I’m trying again, I hear, “Hello? Helloooo? Sydney?” and I’m just like, “….Grandma?” and I can hear her on speaker from my pocket xD It was pretty funny.
So now I’m in starbucks, the land of wonders. YESSSS!
Other stuff:
So mosquitoes have devoured my legs. The bottom floor of the house is freezing, and the top is burning. It’s like passing through a wall when you get to the middle of the stairs- it just hits you.
I’m sleeping on a cot downstairs. I slept with three blankets and the big hoodie that I got for graduation from my teachers, And I was STILL cold. And there’s this weird fish, a barracuda I think, that’s like giant and its eyes are huge and it stares at you. And its eyes glow in the dark. Creepy, much?
We found a good radio station, though. I was gonna go on Pandora or that Slacker radio thing, but then I was all, “Oh, WAIT. We have no internet. Lovely.”
And there are spiders everywhere! They’re big, too.
It’s kind of creepy walking into a house that hasn’t been entered in three years. There were cobwebs everywhere, it smelled HORRIBLE, and it was really dark- night time and no electricity.
So my dad fixed that, and now we have light and water and stuff. And we’re all afraid to go to the bathroom cause there’s this GIANT spider, like the size of my hand, that’s got it’s web right over the toilet bowl. Yeah. He’s very cozy, too, and doesn’t feel like moving any time soon. I’ve named him Alfredo. So we have to use the one upstairs, where there are like mosquitoes galore, and it’s really hot. There are spiders up there, too, but not as many and they’re not as big.
So that’s it for today. Buh-bye. <3