I survived conservative hell!!!!!!!

[AlFrankenFan]

and all I got was this lousy t-shirt...

No, just kidding. But I did get a shirt from Chicago. Long story short, written horribly fast but still I hope the message is gotten across (writen fast because I typed it to my Xanga on Monday in the local library with only and hour of internet time). It's extremely short-hand and informal, too.

Edit: Oh ya and I took lotsa pictures and there will be more and I'll post some when I get them developed (old fashioned camera lol) and ya...see ya!!!!!

This is my first and probably only post from PA due to limited access to the internet and such...only a friggin' hour a day too what's up with that?

Okay, so early on Monday morning I woke up and we got to John Wayne airport...waited in the longest sercurity line EVER and then to top it all off Chicago was having bad weather (where we were catching our connecting flight) and so we sat in the plane on the runway for two and a half hours! Then on the plane we watched 50 First Dates which was kinda lame but funny...then since our plane was so late we missed our connecting flight into Harrisburg by about an hour and our bags (unknown to us) were shipped ahead into Harrisburg! So, since we couldn't catch a connecting flight cause there were no more in PA, we stayed in a Hyatt overnight so I got to miss one day of being here!! XD

The next morning we went back to O'Hare (Chicago airport - damnit I didn't want to leave I LOVE the midwest!) and the plane (really small one) WAS LATE AGAIN cause the pilot and crew was lost (how do you lose a crew?.... jeebus) And so we rode on the plane and I got fainting spells and tried to sleep but couldn't too nervous about being on a small plane...we arrived...I SCREAMED cause I didn't want to go and was running around frantically then I saw my dad and the journey had begun...

I don't at the moment remember what we did on Wednesday, but on Tuesday afternoon we went to Louise's (my step-sister) ballet class which was boring...and we did other things and it must've not been important since I can't remember it heheh...

Then on Thursday morning we began our long car ride to visit my dad's sisters and his mom in Massachusetts...it was a seven hour drive including rest stops and we went through New Jersey (a noteable town called "Clinton" as well) and New York (Albany) and then finally ended up in a town called North Adams where my father grew up. His mom is living in this like 60 year old home which is dark and creepy and really warm...no AC...I feel sorry for her because she's so alone...(my dad's dad died when my father was 18 in 1980) if she lives longer (she's 81) I'll make sure to buy her a nice home someday near her daughters cause I feel so bad...and my father could give less than a shit about her too...

Then we went to visit my grandfather's grave (which was incredibly creepy - I got a weird vibe!) and Catherine (step-mom) was bawling and then we went to Beverly (dad's sis) home where she lives with Gert (my uncle) and they have a dachshund named Robin - she's ten and very fat lol...we got a uge dinner and dessert and I re-met my cousin Elizabeth and my aunt Wendy and uncle Joe (he asked me to tell my mother he said 'hi') and met for the first time my six year old cousin named Peter. We got to sleep in the somewhat basement and i got to sleep on a gi-normous fold-out couch and it was really nice nicer than what my father accomidates for us....

Friday and Saturday we went exploring and such...climbed this mountain Greylock which had an awesome view and a really tall light house on it for no reason and we could se into New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, etc...and we went to shops in Williamstown at which point Catherine shooed us out of an antique shop because it wasn't for kids which REALLY pissed me off...grrrr...and we walked around a lake, saw Wendy and Joe's new home (extremely nice view and uge home)....then on Sunday (father's day meh) we rode back and Louise was really angry and cried a lot cause she didn't get a bluebird toy...spoiled brat....and again we rode through Clinton, NJ and New York...then we stopped in the biggest store I've ever been in called Calebras or something like that...lemme see....Cabelas...same difference hehe and it was basically a giant republican store - fishing, hunting, more hunting, and a food court and displays with taxodermied animals it was so scary just cause like everyone there was a repub i'm sure...oh yeah and I saw in Massachusetts et al eight John Kerry stickers, buttons, signs and whatnot and so far only one Bush/Cheney thing! Oh yea and I guess everyone but my brother, Wendy, Joe, and myself are repubs and they were having a Kerry and Dean etc...bashing fest it was unbearable....and we had to listen to Rush Limbaugh for three hours on the way there!!!! If it had taken any longer I'd have to listen to Hannity too! But thank god I had my liberal John Mellencamp music to drown it out!

Okay, when we got back we celebrated father's day with my somewhat uncle Ian (cath's bro) and my somewhat grandfather Bob Spitzer (cath's dad) and Ian's wife Gretchen and their baby two year old Ava. Besides the fact we had pizza and cake and swam I learned that Gretchen is pregnant which pisses me off I hate when adults I like have babies and get pregnant - STOP HAVING SEX! lol this is a public computer....

And my plans for the rest of the week is to hopefully be here again to type more and vent my anger and maybe go to Gettysburg which would kick SOO much ass if we did....in the mean while I'm going to get outta the library, walk down to the Ice Cream Cottage and get me some ice cream before Catherine and Louise come by to pick us up.

I did go to Gettysburg and got on the plane safely, but there were slight delays because of rain in Chicago. Also, my father called Howard Zinn (he saw I was reading "People's History of the US") a left-wing socialist/communist...and other things I can't remember.

Again, please forgive the sloppiness. :D

[burrowowl]

1. Hang in there Kid! eom

[AlFrankenFan]

4. Thanks

I just got back maybe two hours ago :)

[proud patriot]

2. Hang in there

:hi:

[AlFrankenFan]

6. Thanks :)

n/t

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Congrats on surviving!!

But hold on - not everyone in a hunting store is a republican. Some of decent, God-fearing democrats hunt and have guns and stuff. But I'll spot you a likely 33% stupid idiot freeper moran clientele, and a 33% uninformed blue-collar job-losing republican clientele at those stores. I do like those stores, but a lot of the people in them really do creep me out, especially knowing that, when it comes to economics and reality, *I* actually fair much better under republicans than they do, and yet they support the repukes and I don't. :wtf:

Anyway, I'm glad you survived, and I'm sorry that you had to listen to Rush. Did you yell out "Liar!" and "Hypocrite!" and back it up with verifiable, incontravertible data every 18 seconds, which is likely the median interval between lies? That would have been some great witnessing.

Are your uberconservative earth-hating family also deeply Christian? That's always the biggest irony for me.

[AlFrankenFan]

5. Very deeply Christian - Episcopalians

I did scream a lot at Rush, too. And when Coulter was on Hannity and Colmes I screamed a lot too heheh said something about her man hands lol

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. It seems the most hate-filled, silly, petty conservative people

are also the ones who call themselves the Only True Christians In All the World.

ARGH!!!!!

I'm glad you spoke the truth. I am a Christian professional, and I like to tell the youth to always speak truth to power and not be bashful to do it. Like the great prophets of old, who ended up with their own books in the Bible, who said such "unchristian" and "unpatriotic" things as "turn your swords into plowshares" and "give to the widows and orphans" and "let justice and mercy flow like a river" and "as you have done to the least of these, you have done to me." (that last one was said by Jesus, by the way, saying that every time you deny someone the basic necessities of life, or fail to give a thirsty man water, or fail to visit the one in prison, you are denying Jesus himself, and when you get to heaven he will say "I know you not, for you have denied me")

[AlFrankenFan]

8. Wow it's nice to know there are good Christian dems :)

I'm a Jew by heritage but a agnotist - religion ain't really my thing but I do like the morals the Bible teaches, just wish more people would learn them!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. Conservative Hell

Thanksgiving dinner? Is it time for that again already?

[AlFrankenFan]

12. lol

thank god I haven't had thanksgiving with them since I lived in ol' virginny in '97. But then again, I was 7 at the time.

BTW, seems like yer new, welcome to DU :-) :hi:

[phaseolus]

10. The lesson here is --

Never, ever, ever book air travel where your connection is at O'Hare... unless you love sitting around airports all day.

[AlFrankenFan]

11. My dad likes to make things like that....

incredibly inconvenient. We don't book the flights - he does, doesn't tell us, and usually sends it in time for my mother's birthday. He does whatever is cheapest.

[1monster]

13. Did you do the battlefield bus tour?

"I did go to Gettysburg"

The tour was so moving thatI was in tears when I took it about fourteen years ago... It is an awesome tour and an incredible monument that speaks so clearly to the abysmal stupidity and waste of war.

[AlFrankenFan]

14. Dang if I knew it was that good I should've convinced my dad to do it!

We did a self-tour. I'm sure the reason we didn't do it was because it cost money, right?

[WilliamPitt]

15. Massachusetts??!!??

I wish I had known. I love North Adams, and could have come to lighten things up with the fam. :)

Seriously, glad you're back.

[AlFrankenFan]

16. Thank you :)

If I had known it to be certain before I left or had access to the internet before I left, I would have said something. North Adams is very nice, I love the weather up there - a total change from SoCal. When we were there, it was a bit muggy, but still, very nice, and it really cleared up on Sunday when we left.
Edit: I actually did ask to go up to Boston - my step-mother (I was surprised she had knowlege of local geography) laughed at me and told me how far away it was...she said six hours, but I thought it was more like three...?

[peacebuzzard]

17. enjoyed your story. Glad I was home in my old

50 plus year old home. I guess it is kind of dark and creepy in a couple of the rooms. Anyways, I sure don't miss the airport these days....You are a survivor!

[AlFrankenFan]

18. lol ;)

I like old homes. Thing is, this one is in utter disrepair, dusty, and the poor woman's all alone - doesn't even have a car - and her children don't seem to care.