North Carolina

I'm here at the Cumberland County Library in North Carolina right now as Elisabeth checks out a few books to use for teaching in the up coming weeks.

Thanksgiving was funny. I spent it at Elisabeth's grandparents in Kentucky. This was the first time I have been fully away from my family for a big holiday like this. My family was sad, I am usually the humor at most functions and ease the drama between my enormous family. This year there were 27 people at my grandparents without me. At Elisabeth's there was only 8 including me. This lead to the saturation and escalation of drama. At my family, there are so many people and so much drama it's lost in the shuffle and everyone forgets or gets confused about who's pissed at who. Here, it was such a tiny place and so few people it was magnified and made for a much crazier thanksgiving. It was good, just interesting. I had asked Mr. Martin if I had something to do with the drama and he said no. He was actually glad I was there, now he knows that it wasn't him over the past 25 years, this is just how they act. That made me feel better, especially knowing that I wasn't the cause. Goodtimes.

Because of all of this, the entire Martin family and myself stayed in a hotel room. Elisabeth and Amanda in one bed, Nancy and Mr. Martin in another, and me in the middle in a roll-a-way. It was funny to say the least.