I finally was able to get enough time to finish writing this and my episode review and I feel relieved. I mean I know I dont have to do this stuff but I have always liked to get my thoughts down and I find it fun. Before I get into the Nagambie trip - Things with my Uncle/Cousin/Aunty have escalated to police intervention and other stuff that I wont write about on here but I cant see a happy ending in the future. Pink is coming to Australia and will be in Melbourne at the end of May. Last time me and my friend went to a Pink concert we vowed to go next time she came out. Of course back then I didnt realise I would owe my father a heap of money for a Supernatural conventon lol I dont have the money but you only live once right? so what the hell? With the armageddon Convention this weekend it wasnt like I was going to be able to afford to pay him back any money anyways. Lisa's thankfully covering me with what shes paying back this week which makes me not feel so bad forking out $100 for a concert ticket. Have you noticed all these things either come at once or not at all? They suck. And I know I dont "have" to do these things and I should be saving my money for things that will benefit me in the future ... maybe paying off my car quicker or getting out of my living arrangements but seriously? Meeting the boys is one big thing that will keep me happy and so what if I have no money for anything else ... ever lol anyways so thats whats been happening lately and i guess I'll shut up lol My trip is under the cut if you are interested ;)

Nagambie

All the stress of the possibility of missing Supernatural’s “Yellow Fever” this week was for Nil. I got off work at 2pm, just as my Mum had finished downloading the episode and OMG, what an ep!!! But that’s another story.

I called Lisa as soon as she had finished watching the ep because there was too much to talk about in regards to those boys and that ep and my Dad chose that time to call my mobile to tell me he would be about an hour late picking us up. So Lisa and I chatted for a good while and my brother, Matthew borrowed my car and $10 to go and buy a board game to take with us.

My Dad turned up even later than an hour and I left Mum with the phone talking to Lisa. Sue, my Step-Mum had already left and was at the Caravan Park in Nagambie with my Step-Brother, Liam (who is 10 years old) and his mate, Saxon. She called my phone about 10 minutes into the trip to give us the code to get into the park with the car.

Conversations in the car ended up straying to my Uncle/Aunty/Cousin problem. Things have developed but again that’s another story. I have to say that I haven’t been on a holiday with my brother and Dad where I haven’t driven pretty much since I got my license so sitting there in the back seat with them up front, country zipping by brought back a lot of memories. It was actually kind of weird. It almost made me feel like a kid again.

I managed to spill some coke on my feet … yuck and I watched as Semi after semi drove past and I had visions of Impala’s with “Bad Moon Rising” playing in my head. Obsessed much? *shrugs*

“Say My Name” By Destiny’s Child cam on the radio and wow I don’t think I have actually heard that song since High School and just as that thought crossed my mind I looked straight forward and saw that my brother was obviously singing away … if his head movements were anything to go by lol

“All Summer Long” By Kid Rock and I sat up and so did Matt just as I was making an unintelligible request for him to turn it up. I never really thought much of Kid Rock but I have fallen in love with this song and I have caused Matt to fall in love with it too. Of course the landscape started getting hilly by this point and we lost reception. But after a while of listening to static Dad informed us that he had CD’s … CD’s that I remember burning for him ages ago. I let Matt chose the music and I was pleasantly surprised when Matchbox Twenty’s “Real World” came on. I love all of MB20’s music but I love the old school stuff. The first album is my favourite!!!

We arrived in Nagambie a lot sooner than I expected we would. We brought our things inside the cabin which was right next to a river, another thing I didn’t expect. At this point Matt suffered his first big disappointment. The game he had rushed out to buy? Sue already had it and had brought it with her. The second big disappointment came next. Liam had brought his Nintendo Wii. My Dad has always given him a hell of a lot of grief over playing video games and hence why he decided against bringing his X-Box 360 and Laptop (even though I told him he should bring his laptop because I certainly wasn’t going to go without mine) So he brought nothing with him but a game that we already had. He was not a happy camper. He proceeded to eat one whole packet of Tim Tams like the girl he is “allowing” Sue and I to have the last two … so generous of him lol

The two kids (Liam and Saxon) took off and when they came back it started. Liam came in chucking a major hissy fit over the fact that Dad said it was too cold to go in the pool. And when I say hissy fit I mean demonic screaming and yelling and insulting and yes I hear this a lot coz I live with him and yes My Dad and Sue have tried pretty much everything, even specialists and he never changes. He is a selfish, rude, little arsehole and I do find it hard to even like him sometimes. That sounds   harsh but it’s the truth. So Liam was thrown in his room and I know Matt and I were thinking he we go. Saxon seemed a little out of place the poor kid so Sue, Matt, Saxon and I went for a walk leaving Dad with Liam. We saw a Mum and Dad Duck with a whole heap of little ducklings … its soooo cute hehe We checked out the Rec room, pool and basketball/tennis courts and then headed back for dinner.

Matt and the boys played the Wii a lot and when the boys finally went to bed we put on an episode of Dark Angel ( I had accidentally brought he season 2 DVD’s with me) so I could have a Jensen fix and he could have a Jessica (Alba) fix. We watched “Freak Nation” and I sadly fell asleep just as they had escaped at the end.

The next morning I woke up at 7am which wasn’t exactly what I had planned. It’s way too early on a holiday I have to say but once I’m up I tend to not be able to go back to sleep so I had a shower and got ready for the day ahead. By the time I got out of the shower Dad and the boys were up and Matt was barely awake. Dad was nagging him to help him get the boat in the river and making jokes that no-one really thinks is funny when they are awake let alone still half asleep. Matt told him to wait half an hour and he would get up and help him. Dad ended up leaving and I had a feeling he was going to put the boat in by himself even though we all told him to wait. He came down the river in it later so yes he did go and put it in the water by himself. Not long after this Sue and I decided to go to the Café near the admission place. We had coffee ( I had a mocha coz I’m not really all that into Coffee) and sat out on the dock.  There were plenty of ducks in the river and one came up the bank and then right up onto the deck and right up to us. I was getting all excited and taking photos because I am in love with ducks. I swear if I didn’t have a cat that would most likely eat it or freak out (he’s a scaredy cat hehe) I would so want to have a duck. They are so cute the way they waddle and quack. Sooo cute hehe After that we decided to head into town. Our first stop was the local IGA Supermarket where I actually found a pair of sunglasses I liked (it’s significant people because I am picky and I haven’t had sunglasses in a long time). I bought my brother hair gel coz he didn’t bring any of that either and he can’t go out without it *eyeroll* and of course we got alcohol hehe The actual town itself is really small. And typical of your small country town, practically nothing there of much interest lol

Sue suggested on the way to the car that we go to the cemetery coz she likes looking and I knew immediately that when we got back and Matt found out he wouldn’t believe that I hadn't been the one to suggest this move. Apparently Liam’s great grandfather is buried there too so we did have that reason to go. We found it easily enough and parked in the grass on the side of the road outside the gate. It was eerily quiet even with the sun beating down on us and there was a squeak hinge gate that was even more eerie when we opened it and walked through. I have to admit that I have always loved to look through the really old graveyards, like the settlement ones. There is a cemetery around the corner from where my Mum lives that dates back to the 1850’s. That’s really small and isn’t even fenced off but I have always found it real interesting. This one was dated back just as far and some of the headstones were so old. I took lots of pictures because I guess I take pictures of everything. But some of them were beautiful in that old, historical kind of way you know. I’m in love with history so anyways it was interesting and sad to see how many infant deaths there were in the 1800’s.

Sure enough when we got back and we told Matt where we had gone he rolled his eyes at me. He actually looked surprised to learn that it wasn’t me who suggested to go to the cemetery.

We spent most of the day swimming in the pool which I have to admit that it was fun. I haven’t been to an actual pool in a long time and I love swimming so it was good. Of course I have very fair/easy burn skin and I forgot a t-shirt. All I had on me were singlets. Yes, I am an idiot. So I was putting sunscreen on like crazy. I seriously did not want to get sun burnt on the face especially when I have the con with David Hewlett coming up the very next weekend. I would die if I was all red and shiny in my photo with him lmao The kids were having a ball and Dad, Matt and I had a tennis ball that were throwing at each other. And yes I do mean “at” each other. It was the sort of catch where you throw it as had and fast as you can at the person and the person to miss and drop the ball is a loser. I am really good at catching and throwing tennis balls. It’s one thing I am strangely proud of lol of course this turned into a competition between Matt and our Dad with me throwing them the ball and them jumping all over each other trying to get it. Males *rollseyes* They are hopeless but its fun to watch and since we’ve grown up Matt and Dad don’t always see a lot of each other so from my standpoint it was good to get back to old times. Later on it was just Matt and I throwing the ball to each other in the pool and on one of my throws my “Dean” ring (yes I have one and I wear it every day) went flying off my finger with the ball and landed in the water next to my brother. Thank god he found it. I would have died if I had of lost it lol

I spent the afternoon playing table tennis with my Dad while Matt and Sue played basketball lol it was good fun.

That night after dinner (where I wanted to strangle Liam for the hundredth time that weekend for being an ungrateful evil little bastard) we got to the board games. First up was a game called SmartAss which was a bit tough for the kids but they gave it their best shot. I won the first game of that. I love trivial pursuit and this game’s questions are sort of along the same lines so for me this game is awesome. Next came Scattergories. Matt had been hanging to play this all weekend. Dad went to bed for it and the kids stayed for one game and then headed to bead themselves. The last game between just me, Matt and Sue had me in near tears. Some of the answers we had written down I literally couldn’t breath. I’m surprised we didn’t wake the others up with our loud laughing. That was fun.

And I have to say that swimming and playing games all day can really tire a person out. As soon as I laid down to go to sleep I was out like a light, leaving my brother to battle the annoying big blow flight by himself lol

Sunday came and it was time to leave. I woke up and remembered that I had promised to do the dishes from the night before. I had a shower and got them don’t quickly before Sue cooked the kids pankcakes. We had our own helping of pancakes and I took over the cooking when Sue was eating. Not a good thing apparently. The pancakes still turned out alright but as for flipping them? I suck lol

We packed up everything and then my Dad couldn’t get his boat started. He tried it like a dozen times and it just wouldn’t start. So he went off in his car to see if he could find someone with a boat that could toe him around the where his trailer was. While he was gone the guy in the cabin next to us jumped in the boat and started it in like 2 tries. I felt embarrassed for my Dad lol Sue took off in her car to catch him and when he came back they stopped the boat and tried again and Dad still couldn’t do it. The guy started it again and Dad took off, my brother driving up in Dad’s car to meet him there. We found out later when we met them down by the boat that Matt had to start it for him too.

My Dad still really wanted us to go for a boat ride on the lake and down the river. Sue and I really didn’t want to get on the boat in case it conked out while we were out there lol But we did to save his pride (damn men and their egos) but it was okay. We made it back without much hassle. Getting the boat back up the ramp proved a little more difficult. I ended up pulling the boat on top of the trailer up with a rope by myself. I have to say I was quite proud of myself for that too lol I didn’t realise I had that much strength. Of course all my effort was useless because he didn’t have the boat sitting on the trailer properly so we had to lower it again and then Matthew got out of the car finally and helped me pull it up the second time.

I have to say that my Dad used to be pretty good at this stuff and either he just had a really bad run on the weekend or he’s gettin’ old hehe.

The trip back I admit that I fell asleep, after trying to write my episode review on my laptop in the car which wasn’t as fun as I thought it would be lol In the end I was glad to get home especially because I knew I was coming back to Mum’s and there was not little people running around. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against kids, I love kids and Saxon was adorable. It’s sadly my own step-brother that has me gritting my teeth to not say something I know won’t be appreciated. But it’s all over and its back to normal. I only have to deal with him in the evenings when he gets home from school and today after school? He wasn’t too bad behaved for a change … but I’m sure he’s just lulling us into a false sense of security. In short it’s always nice to get away but it’s always even better when you get back home where you are comfortable and everything is back to normal.