Catching up

Whew, time to play catch up, again. xD I don't know why I keep forgetting to post blogs.

Okay, starting with last week. My grandma and her boyfriend, Chuck, are driving all over the place in their RV, so they decided to pay us a visit since they were passing through from Oregon. (No idea why they went from Arizona to Oregon, then to Nevada, but oh well.) It was nice seeing them again.

^ My mum and dad in the background with my Grandma and Chuck in their chairs in front.

They were with us on Fourth of July, and we went down the the Catholic Church (Yes, the big one with the people in it that I have a high dislike for...xD) because it has a great view of the fireworks there. Before they totally destroyed the wildlife there to build the church, it had been a home to many creatures, and a place my friends and I went to for the fireworks. So, just because there is a church there now, that doesn't mean I'm willing to give up a damn great spot for watching the fireworks shoot off from the Nugget. Haha. I got a lot of good pictures using the camera I got for my birthday (That thing has some unbelievable settings- Like a setting for take pictures of landscape during the day, and one for night. Or for taking normal pictures for day or night, or one specifically for flowers or fireworks, etc etc.). Here are a few of my favorite ones:




^ If you look closely in the one above, you can see that the ring has a smile face in it. =D



^ Lots of bright, blindingly beautiful colors in this one! ^_^

^ This one is subtle, but has it's own awesome beauty to it. I love how the lights are hitting at the same height and are crackling so much. I think it's a reminder that everything has some form of a beauty, whether it's extravagant or not. :)
I got tons of other pictures, but that's all I'll put up. ^-^

Let's see... I had to go out to eat with my mum, Dad, Grandma, and Chuck. Has well as Darren, Jessica and Darren's parents. It was okay. I really don't like eating out in large groups where I'm the only young person there, but someone has to be the mature person. (Everybody there drank some form of alcohol, and Darren and his father were obviously drunk by the time my part of the group got there.)

Have I told you about Darren? No, I don't think I have... To put it simply, Darren was a runaway has a young child because his parents, who are actually fairly nice, supposedly hated him or something. He must have done something to make it thus. Anyway, my "cousin" (has she used to try to convince me she was, when she was just my sister's best friend) Britany, was the one who find him and bring him to us, if I remember right. Then Megan and Darren got together, so he lived with us. But whatever he did when he was younger caught up to him and he had to go to jail for a year. That was when Darren and I were really close, I still have letters he wrote to me, actually; it's kind of like proof of how nice he used to be.
He's been to jail one or two more times since then, and has gotten into a lot of trouble. One thing led to another and he always came back and lived with us for a year or two before finding his own place again. Now he is dating Jessica, so he lives with her and her family now.
Though, Darren and Jessica think they need more room, so they are moving to a condo that's between Jessica and my house. They'll be taking my lizards, too. -silently fumes- I payed for the lizards- which were around sixty bucks each- and he payed for the three hundred dollar tank and whatever he decided to put in it. Now he thinks he can just whisk them away? Last time I let him take my lizards, he killed one, then went to jail left the remaining one in the care of a friend who broke its jaw and put it in the freezer to "put it out of it's misery." Who the fucking hell is actually stupid enough to put a live lizard in a freaking freezer? You've got to be kidding me.

Anyway, that's all for this blog. xD Sorry for making you read so much.

~Duani Y