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All the critters are out today. I saw a raccoon, two possum, a kitty, four or five monarch butterflies, and yet another yellowjacket trying to make love to my hair. I don't know what it is with them and my hair, but this has been going on all summer. I'm surprised I haven't gotten stung.

I was down by Borders today, so I decided to stop in for a book I'd heard about. They didn't have the book, so I bought $100 worth of Japanese textbooks instead. x_x Well, one of them is a kanji dictionary, and those are always expensive. I'd been using Yuuta's built-in character palette to look up kanji, but that's really slow and frustrating, even if it is free. So yay for Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary in paperback. I also finally found a book on basic grammar that MAKES SENSE, and also got a book just about particles and a kanji workbook.

Then I went to Old Navy, and there was so much stuff that I wanted that I didn't get to try it all on before I had to go to physical therapy. I got 3 shirts for $20 though, so that's not bad.

;__; It's fall, so that means spending a whole lot of money on Sei-chan. $600 for insurance, $400 to have the door fixed, then inspection, during which they're probably going to tell me I need new tires, new brake pads, and to change the transmission fluid. x_____x And yearly registration. He needs new windshield wipers before winter, too. I think detailing is going to wait until spring, though. *says goodbye to money* He's been happier lately, though, now that I can afford the 91 octane gas again. Well, it wasn't so much a matter of affording it, as a matter of principle. I refuse to pay $3+ for a gallon of gas, and so far I haven't had to. I think the highest I had to pay was $2.97. When prices spiked a year ago, I got lucky because I filled up the day before Katrina hit, and I can get 3 weeks out of a tank if I don't do any long trips. It's pretty sad though, when I see a station advertising $2.20 a gallon and think, "Wow, prices are really going down!" Five years ago, $1.50 was considered completely outrageous. Oh well, what can you do?

So ends my thrilling and extremely interesting entry. XD