The_Duck

Huh, this is my "about me" page right? So I guess I should say stuff about me!

So I'm 24 years old and living near the east coast of the U.S. I have a night shift job at a gas station/restaruant that is THE place for the "cool kids" to hang out (because I live in a rather small town), so we stay pretty busy most nights (more so in the summer) and especially on fridays. I like my job though, and I've become well known as being one of the fastest people in our store at making food (and at running around like a duck with my head cut off, lol!).

A while back I got a pet Teddy Bear Hamster. He's black and kinda brownish, and his name is Sir Galaham. He's really cute and I love playing with him and taking care of him. He even recognizes my voice and comes up to the side of his tank and looks at me like he wants to come out! So I take him out, and he'll crawl all over me and run around on my bed. He really is a great joy to have around. Especially since I live in an apartment where I can't have my dog, so my dog, Buddy, lives down the street with my Grandparents. But I visit them a couple times a week, so I still get to see him a lot.

Which moves me to my next thing. I really love my grandparents. See, a little over a year ago, my mom left my dad (which was a good thing, because he was always mentally abusive to us growing up), but now she's going through some kind of mid-life crisis and went off trucking with her new boyfriend. My brother, who I am really close to, and I were still living together and were both going to get jobs and help support eachother. He had actually had a job a year or so before, but he got thyroid cancer and had to quit his job after his surguries. (He's cancer free now though!) But then my mom decided that we weren't gettting jobs fast enough and brought me up here and basically dumped me off on my grandparents, on the basis that my cousin would get me a job at the place she worked (which is where I'm working now). So my grandparents were really supportive of me in the past year, and my Grandpa even helped me buy my first car, as long as I paid him back every month. Meanwhile, my brother back home, half the country away, started college for some kind of computer technology and security, and will be done is 8 months or so. Then he can get a real job and won't have to depend on our mom financially, and he'll be on his own too. (And I'll be so glad for him when he does! She's been less supporive of him and his cancer-aftermath since being with her new boyfriend. I don't like her boyfriend because he's a jerk to me and my brother, but it's not my desicion, and I don't have to deal with him anymore).

So then, a few months ago, I was the victim of a hit-and-run. Some guy was speeding down the road in a 25mph zone, going 70mph. I had looked and waited before I turned, and didn't see the guy, because he was over a hill. But then he came so fast that there was just no time to react. He crashed into me, pushed my car from the middle of the intersection to halfway on the sidewalk, and took off, running every red light up the road (according to a witness that went after him). It completely destroyed my car beyond any hope of repair, but I was okay (besides being completely traumatized in the moment, and physically shook up). So my Grandma brought me to the hospital later and stayed up the entire night, just to be there by my side. And on top of all of that, my Grandpa bought me another car, let the old bill go, and now I'm making payments on the new one. They've been really awesome and supportive through the whole thing. I found out later that the guy completely got away with it, but I've made myself be extremely willing to let it go, because I have a family that cares so much about me. And honestly, remembering Sonic saying "just smile" helped a lot. And his song "It Doesn't Matter" helped me get through it amazingly well. Because my "voice inside" tells me to just keep going, and it doesn't matter what happens to me, i'm not going to just give up on life. I've got to many awesome things to do in my life, and I've just gotta keep running.

And so lately I'm back to my everyday life of work, sleep, eat, and more work. But I'm gradually saving money, and I may one day be able to go to college and have a real career, or I may just decide to stay where I'm at and maybe move up into management someday. I'm enjoying being on my own though, and finding out just who I really am.

Anyway, I guess that was less of an "about me" and more of a "my life story". But hopefully if anyone else is going through a rough time, mabye my story can motivate them to keep going. And for now, I think I will leave it at that.