Road trippin'

So Jason and I might go visit my grandfather and his wife in Missouri in a couple weeks! This actually marks our very first vacation as husband and wife, since we didn't go on a honeymoon. Of course now we all have to sit and ponder for awhile the sheer excitement of Missouri.

So... any luck?

No, seriously folks, we know, for example, that we will be going to Lambert's, a restaurant where they throw your dinner rolls to you from across the room and walk around with huge buckets of fried stuff which they dish onto your table while you're waiting for your actual dinner. We'll probably also go to Silver Dollar City and make fun of the rednecks, and the Bass Pro Shop, and Jason can rejoice in living among people who are not paranoid of guns. And of course my grandpap is just a cool person.

We also made note that two of our groomsmen just happen to live in Indiana state, which is conveniently exactly halfway between here and Missouri, so we could even stop along the way. I would enjoy spending time with Sean and Jen and their kids myself, though I don't know what I'd do while Jason was hanging out with Eric. I'm trying to think how we could manage to visit MY two best friends who live in the midwest (one was a bridesmaid, one did the readings), but they live remarkably too far north. Whoever thought the midwest could be so large? Theoretically we could make a big triangle and pull off seeing Ang in Minnesota, because Minnesota is like straight north of Missouri (I was pondering the map for awhile), although approximately the same distance Pennsylvania is from Missouri. It's an equilateral triangle. And as it is we ARE very lacking in funds, and can only afford to go to Missouri because my grandpap has offered to pay for gas! But as Jason says, "We're being like college kids on roadtrips! See America on Unemployment Comp a Day!" 'Tis fun. Forget the mortgage. Dang mortgage.

Now I'm going to go out and find something to kill the evil ants who have taken over the bathrooms. For some reason both bathrooms, no other rooms-- think they're crawling up the plumbing or something.

On the other hand...

Well, seeing how this livejournal thing has gone in the past week, I'm updating quite a lot more than I expected to. I think because it's a good excuse for something else to use the computer for when I go to all the bother of turning it on, turning on Comcast Rhapsody (don't have my own music collection since it's Jason's computer, so I went and put Rhapsody on it at least), logging into email, only to find that I DON'T HAVE ANY. E-MAIL. So then instead of WASTING the computer, I come on here and type random stuff. And read the updates in the Terry Pratchett community-- that's a very active community, that is. And Nathan D. belongs to it, too, which is just funny, to have stumbled on one of his posts. Although of all my aquaintances over the course of my entire life to belong to a Terry Pratchett community, Nathan is the obvious choice.

If it was MY computer, I'd work on my books. But Jason's computer has WordPerfect instead of Word and all my files are Word, and this should NOT be an excuse for a TRUE writer, but it's giving me a severe hangup, which I know is lame, but what do you want. My dad gave my computer to a guy he knows who does things like this in effort to find the files, and I haven't heard yes or no yet, and I'm just in Creative Limbo until I find out whether I have to redo a lot of stuff (MOST of Emily's Book for the hundredth-some time-- since FIFTH GRADE, I've been writing and rewriting that! I am TIRED of rewriting that! Give me a chance to FINISH it already!) or can just pick up where I left off. Frustrated expletive, frustrated expletive, frustrated expletive! Just hangups. I've been writing the autobiography of Billy 'Arrison in my head the past two days, but have not written it down because it is of no real USE and is slightly obsessive of me anyway (Like writing it down somehow proves to the world that I DO INDEED have a Billy 'Arrison fixation, if the world needed further proof, and if writing about Billy in the Adventures of Ian Schafer et al didn't count). And that's like the only slightly creative thing feeding itself through my brain right now. Except thoughts about other people's creations, like those of George Lucas and Terry Pratchett. But I know I'm just hungup.

Wishlist

While I'm thinking of it, making a list of CDs I want to buy as soon as I have money again:

United States of America, self-titled only album

Small Faces, "Ogden's Nut-Gone Flake"

Apples in Stereo, any, but most of the people in the E6 community seem to be recommending "Fun Trick Noisemaker"

Green Day, "American Idiot"

Zeppelin, "Early Days and Latter Days"

Okay, that's all I can think of off the top of my head, will add more as I think of them...