Grrr...

[frameofmind6]

My dad is insisting that I go with the rest of my family to a reunion in Colorado this summer (btw -- peef , are you going?). Normally I wouldn't mind (I like spending time with my family, generally), but there are several things wrong with this:

1) It's in Colorado -- an 18-hour drive from Minneapolis. 18 hours in a car! I hate traveling by car unless it's relatively short (5 hours tops) and I'm by myself (so I can play my music on the stereo as loud as I want...)

2) I only know half of the people who are going to be there -- and those people all live within about a half an hour's drive of my house (except my great aunt, who lives in TX -- but that's beside the point). I hate having to meet new people -- it's incredibly stressful. Granted, I met most of these people when we had a similar reunion a couple of years ago, but I felt out of place then, and I anticipate feeling out of place once again. I spent most of that reunion reading my book. And that one was only two hours away -- I really don't want to drive all the fucking way to Colorado just to sit and read...

3) We're supposed to leave the day before Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince comes out, which means I won't get to go to the book store at midnight and pick it up, which I've been looking forward to since I finished reading Order of the Phoenix (yes, I'm that much of a dork).

I tried to talk my dad into letting me stay behind (I honestly don't think I'd be missed -- I'm not that interesting, and like I said, I spent most of the last reunion reading. I still remember what book it was -- Heaven and Earth, by Nora Roberts), but for some odd reason he seems to think I'll make enjoyable company on an 18 hour car trip.

I'm seriously thinking of buying myself a plane ticket and flying -- it's only, like, $187 or so round-trip from here to Denver. The only problem would be getting from Denver to the town where the reunion is supposed to be ("Grand" something? I can't remember it at the moment). I checked Greyhound for buses, but they don't seem to go there (this town is just sounding better and better...).

I'm in a very bitchy mood at the moment, in case you couldn't tell...see, this is my spoiled brat side...

On a lighter note, I finally got my ipod working, and I've been on a mini spending spree at iTunes -- yes, you see before you the only teenager in the Western Hemisphere who actually downloads music legally. It's only 99 cents a track ($9.99 an album), so it's certainly better than buying the whole CDs (when you consider the fact that, on average, I'd have to buy an entire CD for each single track I downloaded this afternoon), and -- techno-ditz that I am -- I'm too stupid/lazy to figure out how to do it illegally. Anyway, I've been pretty much playing with my new computer all day...

Oh -- I bought the soundtracks to the shows The Last Five Years and Avenue Q! The former is this musical that everyone (every girl, that is) in the WHS drama program is obsessed with (half of them have never even seen it, yet they know the soundtrack by heart). I listened to the whole thing this afternoon -- it's really good. Anyway, the latter is one of the shows I saw in NYC a couple of weeks ago -- the one with the x-rated puppets (*grin*). Man, I love that show...