Mom got up this morning (really early I must add!) guess she could not sleep and decided to check her lotto ticket. She was enjoying that know that second of excitement you get just imagining maybe just maybe you might have won the lottery (oh my god what would I do with the money? It would be so great to pay off all the bills, I would give all my family some money and not have to worry about money again. Mom and dad could buy me a whole bunch of NEW Stuffies!!! And treats lots and lots of treats!) sometimes you put off checking if for weeks because then there is still the possibility you have won! And then the crushing disappointment that you did not win and the many moments of disappointment afterwards. And you swear you are not wasting your money again. Just good old fashioned hard work will get you what you want! But of course mom always breaks down after a few weeks and buys another one cause you never know!
Today we have to winterize the motorhome. For those that don't know, probably most of you, we live in the motorhome in the summer here. Mom and dad sold everything the shop and the house and everything and bought a motorhome and outfitted a trailer to do our work out of and we live on the road in the summer. Mom and dad are pretty young to be able to do this I think. Our motorhome is pretty nice, 35' with two slide outs. Kitchen livingroom in the front with a full 18' slide on that area and then a bathroom with a shower and a bedroom in the back with a queen size bed. It is very nice. A little chilly if the temperature drops below zero I must say! Not winterized for that for sure. But really nice otherwise. Bigger than some peoples apartments for sure and we got all the outdoors to enjoy where ever we are.
We used the motorhome to pull the trailer to where we had events to work this summer but mom was getting tired of always moving around with it. It gets kind of old to be parking setting up for a few days or a week or so if your lucky and then tearing down and moving again. The worst is when you could stay parked for more than a week but you can't because you are not hooked up to sewer so you have to tear down drive to a sewer dump and then drive back and set up. It does get old after awhile.
So we found a spot at the end of summer to park the motorhome and leave it parked all year and we will be using it as our home base. We had to get a bigger truck to pull the trailer and now we have to get a truck camper for the back of the truck for when we are on the road working on the weekends but the good thing is we get to go home and our motorhome is set up AND hooked up to the sewer! That is the best part no more having to drive to dump the smelly sewer.
So we got invited to sign up for the Thanksgiving pot luck dinner at the place we are parked. Okay I did not get invited mom and dad did (it's okay though cause I don't like it when they take me and make me be nice to everyone) although dad does not like to be nice to everyone either especially when they are dick heads and treat mom and him like they have a disease or something. You know it is always a bit unnerving to go to something where you don't know anyone really as we have not had a chance to get to know anyone out here yet. You walk into the room and no one says anything to you, no one says 'hi good to see you could come' or even smiles at you to let you know your welcome in this place. And you find a place to sit and everyone as they drift in sits far enough away from you so they don't have to talk to you cause OMG we don't know you! If your not part of the local 'clique' whatever that might be (but which happens to be the local quad owning and driving gang) you are not worth talking too. Not sure if it is because people are scared to talk to new people or if mom and dad just scare them LOL. Dad with his 200 tattoos or mom with her weird piercings (okay moms piercings are not that crazy a lip piercing and a nose piercing everyone has those right? No wrong no one there even had a nose piercing, weird! Along with moms 100 tattoos, but they did both cover most of there tattoos up as it was a bit chilly so you could not see most of them yesterday. So I guess they went and sat in the middle of the room at the middle of a long table by themselves and everyone came in and as they came in they sat everywhere but beside or across from them. So lucky for mom and dad they had lots of elbow room to eat and all those other stupid people where all crowded together. There were 6 empty chairs in the whole place and guess what?!! They were all around my mom and dad. The worst part I guess was when dad went to the bathroom and mom was sitting all by herself and a guy came over and ask if the chairs around her were all empty so he could take them to his table for his friends, the worst part about that was obviously he did not know my dad was sitting there or he would have known that chair was taken and the other sad and horrible part is if dad had not been there and mom was sitting ALL ALONE in a room full of 100 people those people would have left her there all alone AND taken all the chairs away around her leaving her sitting in the middle of the table in the middle of the room ALL ALONE. People are just rude and sick if you ask me. Nothing like being made to feel separated. One lady did stop and talk to them (out of 100 people) which was really nice, but after about 15 minutes you could tell she felt uncomfortable that mom and dad actually were talking to her and kept trying to drift away so she could go talk with her friends, and one lady snuck over when no one she knew was looking and said it was nice they could come. They sat there for two hours all by themselves. Mom said the food was really good, but I am pretty sure they will not be going back to another 'community function' so they can feel nice and ostracized again. Nothing like a good old fashioned ostracizing to make you appreciate being alone!! I guess they should have expected it though because everyone is really nice and waves at us when we are out for walks or driving by and they are alone but once they get into there groups everyone pretends they don't see us when we walk by or they stare right at us and don't even smile even when mom or dad smiles at them as if to say 'how dare you walk here, who are you and what are you doing walking around me and my space'. I wish mom would let me go over and bite them all, rude people! Bunch of hill billy red necks all getting together to go quadding in the bush. Yes I have a right to judge them on only what I can see because they are judging my mom and dad on only what they can see!!
So mom and dad pretty much stick to themselves mostly cause it is not fun to be ignored and ostracised and looked at like there is something wrong with you. If these closed minded people just took two minutes to get to know mom and dad they would know they are kind, friendly and even funny people, who would help anyone if they could.
So anyway we are winterizing our motohome today, that means draining all the water and putting antifreeze in it for the winter. Don't like the antifreeze it is so yucky tasting in the spring after you come home even after it is rinsed out. We already took all the freezables to my dads sisters for the winter. Today we are on the road again.
7 days til we leave for Belize! Good to know everyone was really nice their to mom and dad I guess talked to them and were friendly so we are all looking forward to that!
Anyway gonna try and get a few more winks in. Growl at ya later :-D
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