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Mum's on a diet kick again, which means that when we went grocery shopping today, she nearly flipped her lid when I tried to put ice cream and some vintage Irish cheddar in the cart, and started going off about how I was sabotaging her, and now she's not speaking to me. I'm not terribly upset. I did manage to sneak a box of instant chocolate pudding into the cart and through the check-out line, and I intend to mix it up at around midnight once she's asleep. I'm still debating what sort of container to store the leftovers in that would attract the least amount of attention, lest she discover them and go off on a rant not only about the sabotaging of her diet, but also how she can't trust me and how I'm wasting her money.

When I was at the store, there was a lady, perhaps who was in her mid-twenties, who was showing some Asian exchange students around and telling them to point out anything they thought looked good. It made me miss V; it was so much fun showing her around, and just seeing the wonder that she had at all the differences between America and China. She made it easy to look at things from different perspectives, and made stupidly mundane things seem wonderful and interesting. Yet another person I've managed to spectacularly lose touch with.

I'm getting insanely excited for Trek, and I've gotten all obsessed with the concept of living in a covered wagon, just like I was obsessed with living in a yurt and a teepee and an RV and a dozen other forms of alternative living. I don't know what it is; I think it's the concept of having less stuff and leading a simpler life and just getting back to the basics (she says as she blogs). One of the sisters at church brought in this gorgeous pioneer dress and said that one of us girls could use it. I tried it on and it fit me perfectly, so I guess I'll be wearing it. Don't get me wrong, it's gorgeous and totally wonderfully authentic and I'll look spectacular, but I almost don't want to wear it because the stuff I got on Saturday I bought specifically for me, and for some inexplicable reason that somehow makes me thing that it'll be more comfortable. IDK. I have to hem the dress anyway, it's much too long.

I just went on a massive purge of internet stuff, including deleting my LJ and a bunch of links to fic. It scared me, but I think (hope, pray, beg) it was the right thing to do. I'm now watching a trashy vampire movie parody called Vampires Suck to try to take my mind off of it. It's an absolutely terrible movie, full of toilet humor and bad pop-culture references. Naturally, I love it. Also, the guy who plays Jacob in it, Chris Riggi, is gorgeous:



Still feeling a little weirded out about the whole "buh-buy slash/fandom/etc." thing, and I feel bad about essentially abandoning all the people I met there with no explanation whatsoever. I just couldn't try to keep up the persona I had built up for fandom, and I felt like such a hypocrite.

Off to possibly watch some other trashy movie before crashing for the night.