OSD

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Written 9 August around 3pm

Obligatory shopping day with Grandma and Mom.  It stems from the fact that grandma was raised differently where the girls hand out with the girls and the men with the men.  Cross-hang is not allowed.  Well, it's allowed, it just never happens.  This means that there must be at least one OSD, often it is the mall followed by Goodwill.  Since we already did Goodwill earlier this week, here we are in the mall.  After telling her that I don't want to be in JC Penney because I don't want to spend money, we looked around for almost 20 minutes.  Then I saw the CUTEST dress.  It was on sale, but not by much.  It was still $70.  Did I mention I didn't want to spend money? She offered to buy me one thing today and I'm thinking of making it that dress.  Or going halvsies.  Or buying her lunch and calling it even. 

But seriously, I'm unemployed.  Shopping is not fun when you are unemployed.  Knowing if I ONLY have $170 in my checking account to last me until I get a job at least two months from today (and that's being hopeful in a 9% unemployment rate country), has killed my desire to shop.  I just wanted to get out of the house even for an OSD.  I'm getting bored in the country.  I need things to do.  Only three more days here and then it is time for Colorado.

Written 11 August:

So yesterday we went to the lake, and got to see some of the cousins.  I had been hoping to see Brittany and Jack, but only got to see Cole and Leah.  I love Cole and Leah though.  Cole is a year older than me, and Leah is two years younger than me.  Cole is engaged to Brittany, and both are red heads.  I was hoping for a red-head trifecta picture again.  Oh well.  I got to watch Patrick play in the water, and watch Jonathan water ski.  It was cool.  I tried a Leinenkugel beer, which is an Americanized version of a hefeweizen beer from Germany.  It was alright.  Hopefully I can find a good beer to recommend for my best friend Maria when she comes to live in the good ol' US of Ah. 

I'm missing the German food though.  I think my body got used to it, so eating the American food has messed with my digestive tract.  That's all I'm going to say.  PLUS: America is the land of variety, so that means healthy food as well. I have to keep telling myself that, since I see Star Crunches, and new flavors of Kit Kats and M&M's (like Coconut M&M's???) and I reach for them.  If I keep telling myself that I'll eat healthy, eventually it WILL happen.

Side Note: It is looking more and more like the pictures will be uploaded when I get to Spokane, sorry. In the country, the internet is poor and far between.  I'm lucky I can even blog.