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[numberoneblind]

okay, so today = irritating. had to wake up at 7:30 to take my mother to work, like always, which sucked, like always. too fucking early since I usually go to bed at 1:30 or so... dammit, I shouldn't be sleep-deprived in summer. but anyway. so I went and worked out, came home (it was 10) by now and took a shower. this is also pretty normal for me. so at 11, my mother calls, and wants me to pick her up for some reason or another. now, this is not so convenient, because she works in Buchanan, I've already been there and back once, and my next plan was to go to Benton Harbor to volunteer at CWCC. these two places are pretty damn far apart. but, you know, I'm nice, so I go pick her up anyway. I take her home -- it's 12:15 or so by this point -- and then leave to go to CWCC.



and this is the point when things start getting irritating.

I had to stop at the bank, and of course the exit at the bank is right-turn-only, when I need to go left. So I go around the block and try coming out on another street, only to find that THAT'S right-turn-only as well for no discernible reason. so I turn right and go down several blocks so I can turn left onto a sidestreet and go around the block over THERE, which requires waiting through 3 light changes because there's so much traffic. I finally make it over to the road I think I need, blah blah blah, there we go. And I'm halfway across the bridge when it hits me...

WRONG FUCKING ROAD.

Yeah. There are two main roads going from St. Joe to Benton Harbor, see. One is M-63, which kind of goes around the city and up to Coloma, and one is Business 94, which goes right through the downtown. For who knows what reason, my brain mixed them up, and I've halfway across the bridge when I realize, oh shit, this is M-63. And there is NOWHERE to turn around. So, fine, I think. I'll just go down M-63 for a while until I see a major cross-street, and I can turn right and take that over to Main Street eventually. I do so, and drive around for a while. Hm, I think. This really doesn't look like anywhere near downtown... But I see a flashy light up ahead, so I figure maybe that's Napier or some road I recognize and I can turn right on that and get back into familiar territory. I pull up to the light...

...and I'm back to fucking M-63.

At this point, I just give up. I turn around and drive back to St. Joe, make my way over to Business 94, and try to go into Benton Harbor the proper way. It's 1:30 by now, and I'm really pissed off, but hey, at least I'm finally done, right? And at least I'll get to do something, help the community, whatever. I finally get to CWCC...

...and it's CLOSED.

Yeah. Closed. Of course. Great. So all of that was for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Annoying, but I think, well, okay, I needed to go to Sally Beauty Supply and get some good conditioner and some purple hairdye anyway since I used the last of mine on Bree, so I'll do that while I'm out here. Of course, I don't know how to get there from downtown Benton Harbor. I make a guess at it, and somehow wind up on fucking I-94. This has happened before, heh, to me and Tim when we were looking for t-shirt printing places. Irritating, but whatever, I do know how to get to where I'm trying to go from I-94 and I WAS going the right way on it.

I'm two miles away from the exit when I realize maybe my mother was RIGHT about her car being kind of messed up.

Because yeah. I'm only going 70, and the car is shaking like crazy, and the front left tire is making crazy thumping noises. This would be a Very Bad Thing in the car world. Also the car seems to be running out of gas. So I exit one early, at Napier, because I REALLY don't want to be on the highway with it doing that. And from Napier I find where I'm okay, since I'm familiar enough with that part of town, and buy my stuff. I come home the long way because I don't want to take that car anywhere NEAR the highway.

So blar. I did get my hairdye and conditioner, and that's good. But I also drove around confused as hell for over an hour, which sucks. I've driven over 100 miles today and pretty much accomplished nothing. And now I'm home again, getting bitched at. And I have nnoootthhiiinnnggggg to do.

Meh. Today is aggravating.



oh, and yesterday I went to Chicago and went to a Cubs game. Still lacking motivation to write that up, though, and also I think I've babbled on long enough for now.


parents are going to be gone tonight but I won't really enjoy having the house to myself if I have no one to talk to online or anything. anyone want to socialize? :/