Filthy Degenerative Lifestyles.

So in my blurred lifestyle, I seem to have forgotten that $15 parking ticked I got ages ago, buried deep within the center counsel of my car. Not a big deal. The City of Grand Rapids called my dad, to whom the plates are registered, and let him know. That's all well and good until my dad takes it upon himself to be nice and pay the ticket himself, thus having to dig through my car and find my cigarettes.

AND OH THE HORROR.

To me, it's not a big deal. To my dad, I don't think it really is either. To my step-mom, it's like getting SATAN tattooed across my chest.

The confrontation ensues. I get ousted from the household and family. I pack my shit. I leave. I get a super fun call from my father telling me that my phone is going to get shut off and blah blah blah.
So I chill at my cousin's house and watch the Land Before Time like a champ until my dad decides to call me back and play good cop.

He's my only ally, he says.
He's probably right, I say.

Because it's true. My mom is too fucked up to even know that 'ousted' is a word and my aunt is moving in the next two weeks anyways. I don't want to get any further from school and my sister? well. Let's not open up THAT wound.

Don't even suggest Alex.
Alex lives with his parents.

Plus there's the whole stipulation where I owe my dad the better part of $1300 for school. A mere speed bump in my situation.

I don't think any of this would be SO bad if I didn't have my step-mom hanging over my dad's shoulder the entire time, pulling as many strings as she can to keep me from spoiling her perfect world with her perfect kids and her perfect church.
I know, right? Gag me.

We've never liked each other and that's cool. I'll rock my 'unsightly' tattoos and piercings and she can rock her mom-hair and disproportionate flabby body. Agree to disagree.

I don't have a problem quitting smoking. I have a problem quitting anything that makes her skin crawl. And perhaps that is juvenile of me. In fact, I'm sure it is.

But it just makes me so happy inside..