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pacificpikachuToday would have been a good day if Mom hadn't been in such a weird mood.
We went down to Roseville. Unfortunately, Ryan insisted we bring Tanner along, and Tanner proceeded to make annoying, headache-inducing noises the entire way down while I was trying to listen to music. That's a big no-no with me--interrupting my music. :O
We stopped at this one horse-supply store on the way down because they were having a sale. We ending up staying there well over an hour, because Mom is such a horse-nut. I won her a free bit by entering a raffle, but overall I was a little on the bored side and the boys were being impossible, and Ryan kept arguing with me about the fact that he chokes on food about every other day because he doesn't chew properly. He thinks this is normal, and wouldn't be quiet about it for at least a half-hour, even though I wasn't interested in arguing with him about it.
When we finally did leave, Mom got really upset at me merely because I mentioned that she had been in there for over an hour. I didn't even say it contemptuously or rudely--I just mentioned semi-jokingly how long she had been in there, and she freaked out and said "You were timing me, weren't you?!" and proceeded to be angry with me over it and argue with me the entire rest of the trip. Even though I apologized about three hundred times and tried reasoning with her.
*Sigh* It's so hard being a Pisces with two Aries parents... ;_;
Anyway, then Ryan got all upset when we got down there because--get this--Mom wants to buy one of those light-up deer for Christmas. He started crying over this. In fact, he had a temper tantrum about it. :O He doesn't want Mom to buy one, and apparently this is very upsetting to him. She just mentioned this fleetingly, too, and she was joking.
So, we went into Costco. Mom said we wouldn't be in there for more than a half hour. We were in there for an hour and a half because she randomly decided to buy Ryan a cell phone. Joy.
After that whole ordeal, she made me go to Ross because she insisted that I needed new shoes before I could go to Best Buy. Well, they had not a single shoe I would even wear, so we moved on...eventually. Finally, I got to go to Best Buy, which was the entire reason I went down there in the first place.
I even found the Gravitation OVA and Samurai Champloo Vol. 6, and bought them. Mom redeemed herself in my mind by paying for the eight or so dollars I was short. Life was good.
We went to the Galleria because Tanner had some kooky scheme about buying a Nintendog game. Mom ended up paying for half of that because he couldn't afford it, to cut a long story short. I don't really feel like elaborating.
The ride back was okay, and when I got home I watched half of the Gravitation OVA, but Mom got mad at me again in the middle of it because I don't have my Japanese course done. Wow, random timing, Mom. So she made me turn Gravitation off and confiscated it, along with Champloo. This would maybe be somewhat understandable if I actually was capable of working on my Japanese course right now, but I don't even have the materials with me. AND the course is already about 90% done, too (I have until April to finish it, for the record).
Oh, and Cody invited me to a movie at midnight, but Mom said I couldn't go to that, either. Again because of the Japanese that I *can't* work on tonight (so keeping me home as a result of it makes no sense).
So, I'm a bit frustrated. How did someone as non-confrontational and peace-loving as myself end up with such an argumentative parent? Heck, and brother, for that matter. I don't feel like I did anything worth getting yelled at over today (in fact, I've been consciously trying to avoid conflict today even more than usual). What's up with the random punishments? Also, I don't know why she's being so weird about the Japanese course out of the blue. I don't even need it to graduate or (I don't think, at least) get into college. This doesn't mean I'm not going to finish it (I'm planning on finishing it soon anyway), but...what's the hurry anyway?
*Sigh* Oh well. Sorry to rant about nothing in particular. I just have problems with the way my parents are sometimes (then again, what teenager doesn't?).
We went down to Roseville. Unfortunately, Ryan insisted we bring Tanner along, and Tanner proceeded to make annoying, headache-inducing noises the entire way down while I was trying to listen to music. That's a big no-no with me--interrupting my music. :O
We stopped at this one horse-supply store on the way down because they were having a sale. We ending up staying there well over an hour, because Mom is such a horse-nut. I won her a free bit by entering a raffle, but overall I was a little on the bored side and the boys were being impossible, and Ryan kept arguing with me about the fact that he chokes on food about every other day because he doesn't chew properly. He thinks this is normal, and wouldn't be quiet about it for at least a half-hour, even though I wasn't interested in arguing with him about it.
When we finally did leave, Mom got really upset at me merely because I mentioned that she had been in there for over an hour. I didn't even say it contemptuously or rudely--I just mentioned semi-jokingly how long she had been in there, and she freaked out and said "You were timing me, weren't you?!" and proceeded to be angry with me over it and argue with me the entire rest of the trip. Even though I apologized about three hundred times and tried reasoning with her.
*Sigh* It's so hard being a Pisces with two Aries parents... ;_;
Anyway, then Ryan got all upset when we got down there because--get this--Mom wants to buy one of those light-up deer for Christmas. He started crying over this. In fact, he had a temper tantrum about it. :O He doesn't want Mom to buy one, and apparently this is very upsetting to him. She just mentioned this fleetingly, too, and she was joking.
So, we went into Costco. Mom said we wouldn't be in there for more than a half hour. We were in there for an hour and a half because she randomly decided to buy Ryan a cell phone. Joy.
After that whole ordeal, she made me go to Ross because she insisted that I needed new shoes before I could go to Best Buy. Well, they had not a single shoe I would even wear, so we moved on...eventually. Finally, I got to go to Best Buy, which was the entire reason I went down there in the first place.
I even found the Gravitation OVA and Samurai Champloo Vol. 6, and bought them. Mom redeemed herself in my mind by paying for the eight or so dollars I was short. Life was good.
We went to the Galleria because Tanner had some kooky scheme about buying a Nintendog game. Mom ended up paying for half of that because he couldn't afford it, to cut a long story short. I don't really feel like elaborating.
The ride back was okay, and when I got home I watched half of the Gravitation OVA, but Mom got mad at me again in the middle of it because I don't have my Japanese course done. Wow, random timing, Mom. So she made me turn Gravitation off and confiscated it, along with Champloo. This would maybe be somewhat understandable if I actually was capable of working on my Japanese course right now, but I don't even have the materials with me. AND the course is already about 90% done, too (I have until April to finish it, for the record).
Oh, and Cody invited me to a movie at midnight, but Mom said I couldn't go to that, either. Again because of the Japanese that I *can't* work on tonight (so keeping me home as a result of it makes no sense).
So, I'm a bit frustrated. How did someone as non-confrontational and peace-loving as myself end up with such an argumentative parent? Heck, and brother, for that matter. I don't feel like I did anything worth getting yelled at over today (in fact, I've been consciously trying to avoid conflict today even more than usual). What's up with the random punishments? Also, I don't know why she's being so weird about the Japanese course out of the blue. I don't even need it to graduate or (I don't think, at least) get into college. This doesn't mean I'm not going to finish it (I'm planning on finishing it soon anyway), but...what's the hurry anyway?
*Sigh* Oh well. Sorry to rant about nothing in particular. I just have problems with the way my parents are sometimes (then again, what teenager doesn't?).
