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Been out shopping all day with mum so she can get a new outfit for the first day back to school. Aparently it’s a huge fashion show. “Wait? Back to school? But your mum is over 35… and is satsified with the college education she has.” I hear you say! Well, mum *works* in a school. VP Secretary, aparently it’s a union position, and a permanent one, so if they lose the position within the school (very unlikely) they have to find her a new one within the board somewhere. Not the point. So we leave noonish, go shopping, stop @ best buy then timmy’s, and her house for dinner, and then back here — where I go to open my windows, and what do I find?! One ginormous bug. Yeah, it’s outside, on the screen, but still *huge*! It’s about as wide as my big toe… and actually just as long (an inch or so… not too good with guestimating measurements.) It’s not a moth — not fuzzy, and its wings are clear. So I’m thinking maybe a june bug? I dunno how it got up to the ninth floor, but its wings must’ve been working overtime. Anyways, now that I got the title covered, onto the rest of my day!

Most of today was spent at Sears. Yes, we traversed the rest of the mall, but briefly. By the way, Sears has a sale on men’s underwear. (aparently when mum goes shopping, she stops in that section just to check it out because supposedly men wear out underwear faster than women. I personally don’t care; though I do think that the men she’s buying for are old enough to buy it themselves.) Anyways… Mum bought a ridiculous amount of clothes, but it works out to a couple outfits to last through the fashion show which is the first week of school. I bought a new jacket, and this awesome robe. It’s cozy.

Then on to Tim’s. We got two ice caps, made with chocolate milk. After eating dinner, oh, about half an hour or so later, both of us suddenly feel *very* ill. I don’t know why, or if it’s related to the ice caps, or maybe those fries we split at lunch, but either way we had to cancel our visit to see the ladies in the hospital this evening. (Don’t remember if I told you, but my grandma has been moved to a different hospital to work with an occupational therapist for a couple weeks. Great Glenice (she’s so good, she’s great.) was moved accross the hall. Of course, they didn’t tell her this, and she was very disoriented, and it took my Auntie Trev a good deal of time not only to sort her out, but also to yell at the nurses. It’s a good thing my mum wasn’t with her, because when you piss one of them off, the two will tag team you until you’re either broken inside, or someone’s fired your ass. (though the rest of you can stay lol)

Oh, I skipped the best buy trip! My iPod’s (2nd gen.) top was coming off. weirdest thing ever. I certainly couldn’t figure out how I could’ve done that, in the middle, while leaving the sides in tact. I’m thinking I’d've had to use a saudering gun close enough to melt the glue, but far enough not to burn anything. And since I’ve been banned from ever using a saudering gun again (at least they let me keep using microwaves… provided it’s food) there is no way I could’ve done this myself. So anyways, we’re standing in line. There’s this lady with two kids. We walk up, the one in the cart (standing no less) was very cute. Probably 4ish, but smiley. The other one… probably 8 or 9ish… and on a leash! I thought that was only for toddlers! And the kid’s “husky” and has enough weight to put into his momentum to drag his mother around the cart while she’s dealing with the sales people. I don’t know whether he had a handicap or anything, but seriously, if you can’t control your kids, why bring them to a store, around expensive equipment, oh, and me. Eventually, they leave, and it’s my turn. The problem with my iPod I find out is a very common one — and one that they can’t fix. Still, they have to send it away for diagnostic tests before deciding, that “hey, we can’t fix this” and they’ll call me to go pick up a new one at my favourite best buy. So I have to live without my ipod for a couple weeks… Told dad I can’t work in these conditions — he didn’t buy it. Worth a try.

I think I’m going to head to bed. I know it’s not even 10:30, but I’m exhausted, and that gravol is really kicking in. nighty night!

*Edit as of 11:38pm* So that bug is *still* on my window. Afraid to open the window… not because it’ll get in, because it’s too big to get in, but because i don’t know much about insects, and their egg laying habits, and i don’t want little insects in my house which will grow into big insects. So after taking a closer look, while spraying it with febreeze, and trying to knock it off with a fake flower stem, I don’t think it’s a june bug at all. I think it’s probably a cicada. A silent, and therefore probably cold, cicada. Right season anyways. I’ve stopped trying to knock it off/spray with febreeze, so I think i’ll open a different window instead. I guess it likes smelling fresh, and the knocking on the window didn’t phase it either.

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