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I went home last weekend. It was my Dad's birthday, and also, one of my aunts wanted to get the whole gang together in one place (quite a task, considering how many of us there are.) to take a picture of Grandma and the Grandkids. Which means I got to see my cousins, which is nice since I have quite a lot of them, and I hadn't seen some in ages. One of them might end up coming up here for a weekend to visit me, too, so that'll be cool.

On Sunday, I went clothes shopping, and got myself $250 worth of summer work clothes. I really like my purchases, but wow, that's the most I've spent on clothes in one trip in my life. I usually only buy a shirt here, a pair of pants there.

I also got dragged around on errands. First, we went to this shop in Toronto to get Dad his birthday presents - tools so that he can mat and frame his own photos. (Photography's his hobby - he's actually pretty good.) Then we had to get wood for the frames, and the mat boards. Here's why I came along: the mat board is at Curry's.. the art supply store I went to until they closed their store in my hometown. I ended up with a purse-sized sketchbook, two flesh-coloured and two colourless coloured pencils. Then we went to Costco to get his cake, where I got a cheap PS2 game. A Sci-fi Action/RPG type game. (Galerians:Ash. It seems like a sequel. I should find the original if I can.) It seems pretty neat so far.

So, after my weekend of splurging, I'm back in rez, where I must now get my new IP address, and hook up my computer and finish unpacking my things. They're still in boxes from when I had to move rooms for the summer. I had to be out by Friday, so all the stuff is IN the new room... it's just not hooked up.

I've been exploring the dAmn chat rooms lately. I've mostly been hanging out at one called "YaoiFanGirls" that has some nice people in it. I've come up with a few charas for the RP there pretty quickly. I've never made charas that fast. Then again, these charas don't have backstories the way Kyuu and Xalen do. Not yet. I came up with a head design for my newest one in my mini-sketchbook over the weekend. I should scan it and add it to my scraps at devArt.

My parents and sister have sattelite TV now! No fair! At least it seems the rez is letting me keep my basic cable over the summer, so I suppose I should be happy for that.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to update the layout.