Truely the end of summer..(phantom post for now)

Well, I got a lot to say, and I've got the time to do it in now, too. I got to see my relatives in MI during the weeks of June 14-28, and spend some time with GrandPapa. He happens to be a preacher, but he's not like those uppity tight-wads. He's a very relaxed man, and he's friendly to everyone. I've never seen anyone not fight with him, because he has an "inner peace", as I call it. The ol' "Golden Rule", methinks. "Treat those as you want to be treated."?
I also got to get close to my Step-grandmother Jenny. I am the FIRST to do this. Not even Grandfather Warren could do this. "She's just not someone you can get close to," he says, "But, she's not bad. I married her after all." I was wrong....I really was. When I first came there, she yelled at me because I taped up the mushrooms Warren had bought for me at the produce market. I had no idea where the plastic wrap was, so I did the best I could. When she had me go to the hair salon, in the car, she asked me if I knew how to behave in a car. O_o I am nearly 17. I think I'd know how to behave in a car. It was so hot, I slept in the car. I got to visit my Step-grandaunt, Bobbie May. Don't laugh at her name. Treat her right, and she will not only make you comfy, but fill you to the brim. :^3 She got to help me with some issues that I've been having trouble with. It was from her that I learned that Jenny has had rhumatoid arthritis, and it's a trouble for her. It's been like that before I was born. With that in mind, I wanted to make Jenny comfortable, or at least happy. She may not be related to me by blood, but just the same.
I also met with my lil' cousin Kyana (Ki-ah-nah), and her friends, Heather and Kristen. :3 We went to Chuck E' Cheese together. We didn't get our pictures with Chuck. ( :^[), but we did get, like, 500-something tickets. We pooled them, save for Kristen, and we just got the little things. The good stuff was, like, too damn expensive in tickets. Then Chuck came out again, walk'd to near the entrance, and dropped a whole bagload of tickets. I made a mad-dash for them, over the children! I was able to acquire 50-ish of them. When the fray nearly died down, I spotted a kid whose hands were so full, other people were just snatching them out of his hands! So, feeling terrible for him, I took back the tickets others had stolen from him. The lil' ones looked at me, awestruck. When I came back to the lil' tyke who was so fortunate to have crossed my path, I gave him back his tickets. He looked stunned, too. I guess it was because I fought the other kids off for him. He beamed at me and said, "Thank you," to which I replied, "No problem," with a smile.
As I met B-May, I met my cousins Jasmine and Jada. Jasmine is 16 with a license, and Jada is in kindergarten. She's kinda like me, in the sense that we like HP and LOTR (if you don't know what those acronyms are, then you're not enough of a geek xD), but we're quite different. And she treats Jada like crap! The kid's just five years old, for crying out loud! She's pretty, and she's very intelligent. I asked her what 12x12 was...and, boy, she told me the right answer. How do they treat her so badly? They hit her, they yell and scream at her, and they say things like, "Imma kick the shit outta you.." I'm surprised she's so buoyant and cheerful. I gave her a Disney CD from my CD collection that had classical music. I hope she's having fun with it. Whenever I spoke to her, I spoke in a calm, tender voice. I said "Please" and "Thank you" as she did things for me she didn't have to do. I let her spend time with me by staying next to me when I played video games and watched tv, and I even showed her how to draw a face profile. She may be young, but she was SO happy about it. I hope that it serves her well, too. However, as I stayed there, I got a bit uncomfortable, at first. She kept curling up next to me, touching me and all this. I called Lupa to talk to him about random stuff n' whatnot, and I also told him this. He said it was because I'm not mean to her. I'm not a tyrant to her, and that's what snapped me out of the daze. I went back, and she was just waiting for me just as ever. I let her paint my toenails a sparkly blue, some of which still remains on my toes today. ^_^<3
Oh, and about the car accident.....I got into an accident with Jasmine and her friend, Jacquelin. Well, Jackie's a silver spoon girl. You know, filthy rich. She had giant, plastic flowers on her nails, damnit! We tried to ride back to her house in an Expedition XL. This is a rich car. And she thought it was a toy by the way she was driving. We rear-ended a lady on the intersection of Tchulhoma and Winchester. She was in a 1970's Stationwagon. The thing was a piece of junk before we even saw it. Giant dent on the left front side....way lowered bumper. Only thing we did was take out the right tail-light , lower the bumper just a bit more, and take out the back window glass. The one who stepped out was a woman, a giant choco-woman such as myself, her mother (from the looks of it), and her child, who was playing in the backseat WITHOUT A CHILD SEAT/RESTRAINER! Despite the force of the hit, everyone appeared just fine. No cuts or anything. I just got a bruise on my arm from where it was pressed up against the seatbelt (yes, I wear seatbelts. And I just lost some cool points....better safe than sorry.). Then the lady was, like, "AH! MAH BABY HURT! MAH BACK HURT! I'MMA TAKE YOU GUYS TO COURT AND SUE YOU GUYS 'COS Y'ALL GOT MONEY!". Well, the cops and the firemen came. Jackie was in hysterics, and me and Jasmine were pretty cool about the whole situation. We sent the firemen off while the cops assessed the damage. The only thing that Jackie got was a juvie citation for failure to maintain, whereas the lady got at least 6 months in jail for no child seat. She also got a ticket for no insurance, and an outdated liscense. O_o Dood...so we went back to B-May's and made hamburgers. :3
I'll be going back in September, to visit and to see Warren's church finished.
My mother and her lover, Denise, broke up. Just how? Well, everytime Denise wanted to go out with Mom when she moved in, she couldn't do it because Gramma Jean was like "No, I'm a religious homophobic and I hate you"...so she was backseated. This went on for about 2 years. Then mom would bring us out of the blue to Jean's when we didn't even know we were going. She didn't ask us, she just said "Let's go". It's so boring over there, really. I mean, we do have friends, Justin, John, and Remy, but their mother WILL NOT let us see each other more than once a year, which sucks. >_> Not only that, but when my mother would talk to her friends on the phone, Denise had to be quiet. The true catalyst, I think, was when Denise's birthday happened this year. Courtney not only had the kitchen but she had a concert, practice, and a job. She was utterly exhausted with a toothache that kept coming back like the herpes(!, no she doesn't have them...it's a smilie), so, politely, she said no when mom asked her to clean the kitchen to make Denise a birthday dinner. My mom reached half-way from the living room and strangled Courtney for her defiance, and told her to get out the house. To this day, she feels she's in the right, and Courtney was wrong. She was screaming, "GET THE FUCK OUT MY HOUSE! GET THE FUCK OUT MY HOUSE!". This was all from financial stress on the part of my grandmother, who didn't pay a Sears bill, and mom said she'd take the bill. The bill, which was $3000, had to be in by a week, and it couldn't be done... This could have ended differently..but what happened, happened. My brother stayed, while Mom went away to Jean's for the night, and I went to Jeanette's for the weekend. Why did I leave, though? I told Jeanette it was an emergency (I felt that way, at least), and she came with her friend, Aaron, and we went to the movies n' back to her house. I spent the weekend there, which was cool. :3 The relationship ended when Mom told Denise to be quiet as she was calling Lenord, her old-time friend from long ago. They don't see each other very often, not even once a year, and Denise had to take a backseat to him, too? Well, fighting broke out, and it ended. Now, Denise will be moving in with her cousin in Ft. Lauderndale by the end of the month, taking Courtney, too. I feel really bad, because, even though Courtney makes me mad and jealous, she's like the little sister I never had. Jealous? How so? Well, her friends come over, like, almost every week, if not every day. The last friend I had in my house was Jeanette, and that was around JACON last year. :^\ So, I really want friends to play with. I do have friends, but they never come. One of them, Mathew, has at least tried to. He has a really bad sense of direction. I can give him props for that. I know Justin and Remy would love to come to, but they have their overprotective mother to deal with. T_T