Ripples
Today was pretty cool. I finished my CSE (computer science) homework in the morning, and so I decided I might as well go out and get some shopping done for a change. I went w/ dad and bro, and though I did get an earful about eating a whole burrito at Baja fresh instead of half of one and how I'm eating too much at UW (which isn't true... a lot of the money is just lil' things... which I'm not gonna buy anymore cuz they're way too expensive). But ANYWAY! I got some cool things: a new purse, which is PRETTY.
oh, and the way I got it was hella talented, if I may say so myself. Previously I had been looking at sunglasses because my brother wanted one and my dad asked me whether I had one and I said no (mine broke a long time ago.) so he said I should get one. So I was looking through it... and I have a sore spot for sparkly things (not COMPLETELY sparkly)... so I picked this sunglasses w/ sparkle on the sides. And then I went over to the clearance of purses (I didn't want a purse that wasn't really for my age group... which my dad would insist on trying to make me buy.) So I did this: I went up to the shiniest purse there. I knew would be the type my dad would absolutely detest and at the same time the kind of purse that he could see me buying (totally fit because I had just chosen a pair of sunglasses with some sparkle on em. So it wouldn't take a huge stretch of his imagination to see me buying a purse that's completely shiny.) So I go up to this purse that's covered in those shiny silver circle things... He got that shock+moreshock+nowayinhellwillmydaughtercarrythat look on his face and opened his mouth and then I moved that aside and took out the actual purse that I wanted with a few shiny things on it, but a lot more sedated. There was still a chance that he wouldn't let me buy that one either, but since it was sort of Indian-looking, he actually liked it. I don't think my fiasco was even necessary. Oh well. :) it was fun just to see the look on his face. Anyhow, I LOVE the purse! Only 6$!!!
and (sigh) I tried my best to get a wallet that wasn't made of leather, but I just couldn't win that argument with my dad. He was right though- in the store, the only wallets that weren't made out of leather were made out of this poor quality cloth that even I wouldn't buy. If only they had more options :( oh well. he's vegetarian just because that's how he's been brought up, and I'm vegetarian because I've *chosen* it and I completely believe that the lifestyle suits who I am. so he buys leather left and right and I just live with it.
I'm still waiting for the digital camera that I've been asking for for the past two years... maybe he'll finally buy it for me because I got good SAT II scores.
speaking of which, I need new shoes. my sandals are falling apart.
I pretty much only go on shopping sprees when I am in dire need of buying things. Other than that, I pretty much hold on to things until they're virtually un-usable.
except for jewelry. which I am always willing to buy more.
hehe.
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so I come home... and then I get a call from CHELZ! to go KAYAKING at her grandma's!! She had invited me before but I couldn't go because I had guests, and since she's actually persistant (I love that. lets me know that she really wants *me* to go kayaking with her, not just any friend. but anyway...) so I asked my dad, and since he had already heard me say no to her once before and I knew I had done all of my homework and stuff he said ok after much interrogation about what's the phone numebr and address of the grandma's house, will there be lifejackets, etc.
So Chelz comes, and I'm trying to shave my legs desperately upstairs. I can hear Chelz talking about how she wants to go to Caltech and how she loves physics to my dad, and I smile inwardly. I knew that he'd like her.
So I come down and I go w/ her to her grandma's. Her cat and dog were there... I love her cat. I mean I L-O-V-E her cat. Sheba is an absolute QUEEN. She's got looonnng white fur, and beeeautiful green eyes... very very regal and imperial.
anyway, we went kayaking and it was very fun and we came back and jumped off the dock w/ our lifejackets on and swam around a tiny bit and came back to the car....
swimming was fun. though jet boats? Amazing things. Make you feel like you're invincible. I had that experience once at a Microsoft picnic... I sat on one of those things, rode around on the lake... lost track of time, and they had to send people out to find me. I used up half of the gas tank as well. But I was grinning when I got back and I just kept smiling on the inside as my dad scolded like hell saying they were gonna call the police and my mom threw daggers at me with her eyes.
I gotta get one of those things.
oh, and the way I got it was hella talented, if I may say so myself. Previously I had been looking at sunglasses because my brother wanted one and my dad asked me whether I had one and I said no (mine broke a long time ago.) so he said I should get one. So I was looking through it... and I have a sore spot for sparkly things (not COMPLETELY sparkly)... so I picked this sunglasses w/ sparkle on the sides. And then I went over to the clearance of purses (I didn't want a purse that wasn't really for my age group... which my dad would insist on trying to make me buy.) So I did this: I went up to the shiniest purse there. I knew would be the type my dad would absolutely detest and at the same time the kind of purse that he could see me buying (totally fit because I had just chosen a pair of sunglasses with some sparkle on em. So it wouldn't take a huge stretch of his imagination to see me buying a purse that's completely shiny.) So I go up to this purse that's covered in those shiny silver circle things... He got that shock+moreshock+nowayinhellwillmydaughtercarrythat look on his face and opened his mouth and then I moved that aside and took out the actual purse that I wanted with a few shiny things on it, but a lot more sedated. There was still a chance that he wouldn't let me buy that one either, but since it was sort of Indian-looking, he actually liked it. I don't think my fiasco was even necessary. Oh well. :) it was fun just to see the look on his face. Anyhow, I LOVE the purse! Only 6$!!!
and (sigh) I tried my best to get a wallet that wasn't made of leather, but I just couldn't win that argument with my dad. He was right though- in the store, the only wallets that weren't made out of leather were made out of this poor quality cloth that even I wouldn't buy. If only they had more options :( oh well. he's vegetarian just because that's how he's been brought up, and I'm vegetarian because I've *chosen* it and I completely believe that the lifestyle suits who I am. so he buys leather left and right and I just live with it.
I'm still waiting for the digital camera that I've been asking for for the past two years... maybe he'll finally buy it for me because I got good SAT II scores.
speaking of which, I need new shoes. my sandals are falling apart.
I pretty much only go on shopping sprees when I am in dire need of buying things. Other than that, I pretty much hold on to things until they're virtually un-usable.
except for jewelry. which I am always willing to buy more.
hehe.
---
so I come home... and then I get a call from CHELZ! to go KAYAKING at her grandma's!! She had invited me before but I couldn't go because I had guests, and since she's actually persistant (I love that. lets me know that she really wants *me* to go kayaking with her, not just any friend. but anyway...) so I asked my dad, and since he had already heard me say no to her once before and I knew I had done all of my homework and stuff he said ok after much interrogation about what's the phone numebr and address of the grandma's house, will there be lifejackets, etc.
So Chelz comes, and I'm trying to shave my legs desperately upstairs. I can hear Chelz talking about how she wants to go to Caltech and how she loves physics to my dad, and I smile inwardly. I knew that he'd like her.
So I come down and I go w/ her to her grandma's. Her cat and dog were there... I love her cat. I mean I L-O-V-E her cat. Sheba is an absolute QUEEN. She's got looonnng white fur, and beeeautiful green eyes... very very regal and imperial.
anyway, we went kayaking and it was very fun and we came back and jumped off the dock w/ our lifejackets on and swam around a tiny bit and came back to the car....
swimming was fun. though jet boats? Amazing things. Make you feel like you're invincible. I had that experience once at a Microsoft picnic... I sat on one of those things, rode around on the lake... lost track of time, and they had to send people out to find me. I used up half of the gas tank as well. But I was grinning when I got back and I just kept smiling on the inside as my dad scolded like hell saying they were gonna call the police and my mom threw daggers at me with her eyes.
I gotta get one of those things.