Home-ish.

So, I'm back in Lake Jackson, but I don't feel home at all. First of all, I don't have a room. So far I've been switching my sleeping arrangements between different couches and different people's beds. Austin is in what has been my room the entire time we've lived in this house. I'm trying to set up base there, but supposedly when Travis gets home that will be taken away from me. After that I don't know where I'd sleep. They'll probably try to get me to sleep on the window bed in what used to be Travis's room, now Rachel's. I wouldn't be able to sleep there at all. Not like I'm sleeping well in my old room anyway. The bed just isn't as comfortable as my bed up at the dorm. And it doesn't feel like home only because I don't have a room anymore, but also because the people don't feel like home. I miss my roomie and suities, and my extra roommate, James, most especially. It just isn't right without everyone just a few steps away. My family doesn't even seem happy to have me back. My mom just wants me to do things for her all the time. Dad has maybe said 5 words to me, Rachel gets upset with me all the time for trying to help her diet, and then not trying to help her diet, and I just can't win. Lizzie is upset with me for random things that I say. She'll just snap at me for no reason and then try and tell me she's kidding. You can't yell at someone and have it all be better by saying "j/k". Just, you know, rule of thumb. Austin is ALWAYS on the computer. I don't tell him to get off because I want it, I tell him to get off because it isn't healthy for him. So, of course, he's always upset with me. Chances are when Travis gets home he'll be mad at me for random reasons all the time, too. I just miss my real home.

I'm pretty behind on my Christmas shopping. I'd be doing it right now if it weren't for the fact that the suburban doesn't want to start up anymore. Like, there's something wrong with the wire that connects the battery, and you have to wiggle it to get it to start, but I'm having trouble getting the hood open, so it isn't working out for me. I know what I want to get everyone, though. That's not really something I'm worried about. The only thing I'm kind of worried about is getting Elizabeth's present done on time, since it's something I'm knitting, but also requires me to sew the pieces together and sew on a bunch of buttons. So hopefully I'll get that finished. The only thing stopping me is that my hands start to hurt after too much knitting. So, I have an inquiry. I have this friend who wants to get a Christmas present for her boyfriend's parents because they've been absolutely wonderful to her and she'd like to say thanks, but she doesn't know what she'd get them. Any ideas? Maybe?