Voices Carry

For Russell's and my 6th anniversary we headed down to Los Angeles to go to Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios. At first I wanted to get discount plane tickets from Russell's aunt but he thought it'd be rude to ask. So I paid $50 to have the oil changed in our car and they inspected it and said there was no way that our car would make it to L.A. and back. So I just figured we'd rent a car. I had no idea what an effin' hassle that would be. First of all, most companies need you to have a major credit card, no debit cards allowed. Also, if you're under 25 years old they charge you an extra certain amount each day. I looked into Hertz because they said they accepted debit cards but they did random credit checks, but I heard from my friend if you had atleast $400 in your account you should be fine. Since I'm not even 21, I had to have Russell go in after I put the money on his card and he was denied for some odd reason... I then begged my grandmother to put the car in her name. She freaked out, thinking if I got in an accident her house would be taken away or something like that. But she's a sweetheart and after a long day of worrying we finally got a rental car and it was lovely. Even though it was the cheapest economy car they had it was 1 million times better than our car. We invited Adriana and Texas Mike along because we were heading to a theme park...they're more enjoyable in groups. Plus, those two never get to go anywhere. You couldn't hook up your iPod or listen to CDs in the car, you were forced to listen to SIRIUS radio, which was neat. There was always good music to listen to I just found it odd how they made it impossible to listen to anything else. The hotel was really nice, it had a pool but the trip was so rushed there wasn't really time for that. We left at 2am and arrived at about 8am. The first shuttle from the hotel to Universal came around 9:30 so we all headed to the park with little or no sleep. Once we got there I woke up because I love it there so much. It was really fun showing Russell the Universal Tour and the Jurassic Park ride. It was sad, though. They closed the T2-3D experience for Haunted Horror Nights. So it was closed for the day cause they needed the theater for their tribute to Rocky Horror. We had a blast at the park until about 3:30 and then we went back to the hotel and took a nap. I needed one...I did most of the driving and got about a wink of sleep. We woke up in time to drive back to the park for Halloween Horror Nights. Pretty exciting...demons on stilts, fire blasting, Rob Zombie blasting, bloody girls in their underwear dancing...people running at you with chainsaws. They had mazes where people jump and scare you...I didn't know if I'd be into it but it turned out to be really fun. We got to walk right by the actual Psycho house and Bates' motel during the Terror Tram...pretty fun. Glad I forced Russell to go. When we got back around 1am we were starving...we went to this place called Jerry's Deli which was a really nice restaurant with delicious food... The next morning we got up and left...I really wish we could have stayed but since my grandma got the car for me it needed to be back by 5:30 that evening. On Halloween we had friends over and watched a bunch of Halloween movies which was fun. Russell got me a Freddy Kruger toy. Trick 'R Treat is amazing...even after watching it for the 3rd time. Wish I made it. Class has been a lot easier to get up for. More motivated...enjoy going more. I've made a lot of friends in the class and I'm being called the Nard-Dawg now...atleast by the other two girls who obsess over the Office like I do, hah. Buh, but yes. We only had school on Monday and Tuesday this week so I finally had my wisdom teeth removed on Thursday. It's not feeling any better...I hope the swelling goes down by Monday morning, I really can't afford to miss an entire day of school. I just finished my mannequin project. I cut and colored it. Now I just have to make a packet of my thought process and show how I actually made the cut and everything like that...don't feel like it when I am a disgruntled chipmunk. I've been doing more productive things like playing Booty Grab on Gaia. Blah. I gotta update this bad boy more often...but I think every entry I've written says that. I'm excited for Thanksgiving...so hungry....