Family ramblings

I'm finally getting around to reading the third book in the Delirium series...Barely got anywhere so far (thank you, highly distracting family, for distracting me and making me do more work than I wanted to) but it's already very interesting.

Also, my room feels smaller. I had to clean it the other day (I picked up all my clothes; I finally got a chance to use the washing machine again...my sister is bad at doing laundry) both because I could, and because on Sunday at the very latest I'm getting a bed upgrade. My mom and dad are getting their queen sized bed upgraded to a king sized bed, and since I'm the one stuck with the oldest mattress, I get their queen sized one. 'Course, I don't have it yet, since my dad still needs to sleep on it over the weekend, but unless the new bed comes in before Sunday, I'll get it then because that's when he leaves for work again.

My room will feel tiny. It already feels smaller because my mom was washing the carpets and had to move all the furniture out, and since my room is the nearest available room, I got a lot of stuff shoved in here (there is the room that my littlest siblings share, which is actually a double room, but it's already got enought junk in it, and the other two brothers share a room, so there's not enough place in their room. And my sister's room is downstairs) Now it's annoying to try and get to the curtains, so I guess that I won't be opening them for the next few days. Ah well. I think that I should enjoy the space that I still have though, because that new bed is going to dominate my room. I'm no expert on measurements, but I'm guessing that it'll take up over half of my room.

Keep reading for the rest of the post if you're interested. If you're not, then don't bother. Either way, it's your choice.

Still, better than sharing a room. I had to share that big double room with my younger brother (not little brother) and older sister at separate times. Neither of which worked out. My brother because, well, he's a guy and I'm a girl and the older we get the more privacy we need...No, really, I can't share rooms with my siblings. When he was younger he was very hyperactive (though now he channels all that energy somehow into playing video games, and before his bike broke he used that) and I'm the kind of person who needs quiet and absolute darkness to fall asleep.

And my sister I can't share a room with because she's obnoxious. She also used to be hyperactive, though somewhat less than my brother, but now she channels that energy into...into...actually, I'm not sure. She just gets angry most of the time now. But my sister and I are incompatible. We rarely get along with anything, though there are times when we do, and somehow we both manage to annoy each other to no end.

That's actually how I am with most of my family. A lot of the time I don't really feel like I 'belong' with them. The only person I really get along with, and even then not always, would be my older brother. But still, even he manages to annoy me periodically. I think it might have to do with the fact that me and my older brother (possibly my parents too, not sure though) are introverts, whereas the rest of my siblings are all extroverts. I know that it might not seem too likely with the way how they like to sit in front of a tv doing whatever, but given the chance they'll all much rather do something like ride their bike than I would. Seriously, I only ride my bike a few times a year. A waste of money probably, but it's still nice to ride it every now and then.

But I am who I am, just as much as my family is who they are. It's doubtful that we'll change ourselves in the immediate future (unless there's some major incident that happens...) and I'll just have to live with it for now. It'll annoy me, but I'll live with it.