Burned

Today I went to Barnes and Noble to buy a copy of Burned for the trip to Mexico. I told mom that of course this book would be there, but she wouldn't take my word for it, so I had to call in and make a reservation.

Sure enough, when I went there, the shelves were piled with copies.

I can't read it yet, which is tough.

I'm glad I got it, though, because Clarissa got all the books for Christmas, the ones that she hadn't read yet. It wouldn't be fair if she got to read it first, when I've been following the series as it comes out.

Unfortunately, I accidentally promised Mom to repay her a five dollar bill I had borrowed when I did not have one to spend. I ended up stealing a five dollar bill from Benjamin's room. It makes me feel guilty.

He was probably going to spend that on a present for me too. What if he can't, now? I know that's a really selfish reason for guilt... but I wouldn't have had to steal it if I hadn't lent him $10 in the first place!

I'm hoping that Sally might go out of town and I could somehow repay him... but I'm still worried that he won't be able to afford me the present he wanted to. I feel superbly bad about caring about that. But whatever. I could pay him in quarters, maybe? Too obvious? What can I do?

In Barnes and Noble there were some really epic notebooky things. There was like this super amazing sketchbook with high-quality black covers and a pretty asian-ish red-and-white-flower design. Then, in some similar artsy designs were notebooks with lined paper for journals and stuff.

And then, possibly best of all, a large book of staff paper with the same high-quality type of cover and sturdy paper. Twas awesome. It made me want to be re-inspired to do more music-y/writing-y/song-y things so that I would have a reason to buy and use them.

Actually, I think Mom might have gotten me one of those as a birthday present. After she went to Ross, she went back in and bought something. I don't know what.

While we're on that topic, let's make a wishlist!

- Music staff paper notebook
- Journal
- Books
- Sketchbook
- Kpop albums

And what would be really awesome is a little video camera. Emma just got this camera that is super epic. It's red and rubber-covered in a hard satisfying way that's like impervious to everything. You can film underwater with it. It's shaped kind of like a regular camera, but it can shoot great film in addition to pictures.

I don't know how much it costs. Maybe I could ask Emma? It would be awesome.

And of course Clarissa got some super expensive Sony video machine. I don't want that, because I wouldn't use it enough to be justified. I want something useful as both. And awesome.


Anyways, lots of cool stuff in the world.