Here we sit in Amarillo. And now I’m going to go look what my last blog post was haha. Earlier today I wrote a new page for this Biznitch, a want and needs list. I felt kinda obligated to write something (as I still feel) especially as I’ve been flailing with videos and storage capacity. I’ve spent 4 hours in the last 2 days editing videos just to make a small mistake and have to start over, so I did that and edited and it still won’t save because “my storage is full” which is ALMOST true….. anyway…..
I checked and I left y’all in Santa Rosa. Seeing as we are now in Amarillo, one might expect that we took the I-40 straight here. Nay-nay, not my way. It’s been like a week, that’d be such a slow move. I do like Tucumcari and such along that route, but we actually headed south into Fort Sumner where we visited the Billy the Kid Museum and gravesight and stayed at a free campsite at a lake.
The next day we headed to Clovis, NM so we could chill at the library a little. I downloaded a music mix of my brothers for my youtube video (yeah, that’s where all my storage went, but it’ll be so worth it when I figure it out…. ALSO, once I’m done with it, I’ll have way more storage, but having a “local artist” sounds like way good of an idea) We stayed in the Walmart parking lot, where this cool guy in Harem pants pulled up and thanked me for existing. He was gonna show his hospitalized mom a pic of Bugus to let her know that they are not alone in the world ❤ Send all the hippies and love her way!!
So while in Clovis, I contacted my friends Brittany and Andy to give them a heads up that we’d be coming through soon-ish. It was gonna be Andy’s birthday on the 11th and the family sounded stoked to have us be there, so we hustled to the truck stop. I sat there for it seemed the shortest time before a guy named Kelly came up and said he’d do the diesel thing for us. He filled the tank and asked if we wanted Pizza. I won’t say no to Pizza. Got a little more moolah during the short time we were at that truck stop.
Before we made it to our friends, we stopped in Lubbock for some cake and steak to help celebrate. The kids were stoked on the cake, the adults were happy with steak. We spent a few wonderful days and nights there. Atreyu played with their 9 yo very well. Galixy and their 3 yo hit it off beautifully (again) and I chive well with them all, except when all the kids play interrupt as often as possible games. The baby is understandable on that level, I’ll tolerate the “tots” needing reminding; it’s when the oldest interrupts the most that gets me to speak up about it. Then at one point, I interrupted him trying to tell us for the nth time something about a gaming computer and he was all “You interrupted me…. 😦 😦 ” like, how’s it feel? I mean, I shouldn’t have, but we were all hiding from the kids to smoke discreetly and they kept barging in and interrupting our talking. I feel like I’m too strict for them, which is funny cause I think Andy’s stricter but more inconsistent on some levels. Don’t get me wrong, they are wonderful kids and awesome people! I think I was a little much for them because on the last evening their son asked if we were leaving tomorrow, and the way it was asked sounded like the parents had said something and I took the hint. I don’t want to bother anyone or wear out my welcome. In the morning, I did a last round of dishes in the house, and then had to wait out some wind storm. I did get a little feeling that there was some sadness about our departure but certainly not ill timed either. Besides that my Valterra Rocket Hand pump faucet fritzed out on me. Andy gave me an electric pump and Brittany found a bathroom faucet. This will be a project for not this moment though.
We stayed a night in Lubbock, and then headed north on the I-27 towards plainsfield for a laundromat where the attendant gave the kids popsicles and sodapop and told us we could stay as long as we wish. Then we headed to Canyon. I had an intensely terrible day yesterday. I tried to quit smoking and I just couldn’t stop seeing everything as the worst and terrible. I gave in and bought a pack at 4:30 PM. I can’t say it levelled me out entirely but it helped and I feel terrible. I woke up in the middle of the night and puked too. Like I wasn’t sure if I was catching a fever or ate something bad, but it must’ve been something bad I ate cause I felt lovely this morning.
So today I spent $40 on a new hand pump faucet, because I need running water and as much as I love puzzling out electric stuff, I still want to figure out the LED light strips and I feel like I’m just flailing around in general right now. I’m very low on money and my cellular data too. So I feel like I’ve been working hard, enjoying my time, but getting otherwise little out of it. I could feel scorpio season begin, and now I’m feeling it fade out again, too.
Now we’re sitting at a truck stop and the kids watched the Incredibles. Oh we were also at a most beautiful park that I would like to put in a part of a video, but how will I save videos if there’s no room? Go delete an app or two and maybe it’ll work, the upload while connected to wifi and delete it off my phone. Sounds like library time if we ever get some fuel here. These kids be crazy. Fighting with a curtain rod.
Bed time not only for them, but me as well. Long days, sink full of dishes. Oh well.
Stay grateful and share a smile for me!
Matilda the Bugus 