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Just got back from Half Price with Justin and my brother. We all bought some books. I love trips to the bookstore. I always feel like I have to buy something there — I find things to buy, aimlessly. Like shopping at Abercrombie, I cannot leave unless I buy something. I really did buy some useless books today — a pack of Harlequin books that I have no interest for, but they were in bundles.. and bundles save money! You can buy lots of books for little. I love books to fill my book shelves. I have no more space but there’s no harm in adding more books to your collection. I might start reading one of them tonight, but right now I’m in the middle of The Fifth Child by Lessing.

At checkout at the bookstore, I asked the lady to give me a bag.Then I thought, How selfish and inconsiderate of me about the environment? They are promoting ways one could be friendly to the environment by asking you to buy their 98 cent eco bags so you don’t have to waste plastic bags… and I noticed that the workers wear “Eco Friendly” green TShirts. And there I was, asking for a plastic bag. No wonder she didn’t even offer me one in the first place.

My siblings are thinking of getting a Wii Fit. What do you think of that? Worth the money?

Also, I broke my vegetarian streak of one day today. I was really  hungry and my parents came home with good pizza. Of course they didn’t buy any cheese pizza, so I had meat. I guess I’ll start again tonight.

Vegetarianism

I started (attempted to) become a vegetarian last month.  My roommate had been a vegetarian for years and all she had in the freezer was veggie food, so I decided to buy my own and give it a try. I liked it, I could actually see myself eating that stuff. So I was veg for three days until I moved back home. It’s hard being vegetarian around my mom; she cooks good food, buys good food, and what’s worse, she makes fun of me becoming a vegetarian. I don’t think it’s a laughing matter, it’s for a good cause. I’ve always been an animal lover, animal “activist” (I am not active though..).

So I ordered PETA’s little guide on how to transition to becoming veg. It helped and encouraged me more. Recently I just bought only veggie food from the grocery store. Who knows when I will start that. Everytime I start eating veggie food, I break my strike (of what, half a day or a day) by eating chicken.  It’s difficult because I’m the only one in the family that’s actually trying out vegetarianism.

Oh, yesterday I started watching Sex and the City, the first two episodes of Season 1. I like it already. I never really did watch that show, but it’s so feministically funny.

Another Summer

Summer started about a week ago. Every semester after finals, I pack my stuff so dad can come down and move them back home, and I realize my stuff accumulates each time. I go shopping too much? Having an apartment means having more things, compared to just living in a dorm. I need to look for a job this summer, but am too lazy.

Two days ago Justin and I went to Borders and bought some really educational books. Just add it to my collection; I have so many books I will never read. I got one called Astronomy (very interesting!), and the other is the “Love Pack” which has cards and a book to interpret those cards. It mainly gives you inspiration on how to build relationships and what to do/how to prepare when faced with problems. Not that I really need it, but it looked so cute! And I’m into stuff like that. Love pack, romance deck, that’s what it’s called.

I’m so looking forward to next semester. Justin and I will be living together, we’d have our own apartment and I get to be in my comfort zone for the first time in college.

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It has been a while…

Since I last posted here. I realized that WordPress is too public. I’m not sure if there is an option to limit certain people from reading some of my entries (protected posting),  so I had been blogging at LJ, Xanga instead.