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After waking at 8:30am and actually getting up right away. I spent the next 30 minutes waking up Jem and telling to get ready. He didn't get up but whined the whole time that he wanted to come with Mom, Sis and me to watch Coraline and walk around the mall. Of course I told him no than said 'If your not going to shower, I will so I can get all the hot water.' That's what I did until 9:45am or so. When I was putting my clothes on I couldn't find my deoderant...until after I opened another one and used it stare . Jem finally showered when he remembered his hold would expire soon so after everyone was ready, we left for the library. I returned D.Gray-man book 12, Naruto book 34 and the dumbest book I've ever read 'The Ultimate Dracula', it was just a bunch of pointless short-stories. I'm so happy I was able to pick up my holds! They were Bleach book 26, Fruits Basket 21, Naruto books 35 and 36, and Vampirates book two Tide of Terror. I'm typing this at the library and it's almost 2pm so that's all I've got for now.

Much Later...
We left the library a little after 2pm to leave Jem at home to help dad. Mom forgot to buy vegetables for her chicken in the crock pot so she left Sis and I while she got some. We had to listen to Jem whine, beg, complain, and annoy us about how much he wanted to watch Coraline with us until Mom got back. After she cut up the vegetables and placed them in the crock pot, we left for the mall around 3:15pm. When we got there about 5 minutes before 4pm, I bought our tickets for the 6:55pm showing of Coraline first then we went inside the mall to get kon's present, window shop, and just waste time until Coraline started. Sis ran to a claw machine containing a whole buch of Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck dolls and declared 'I want a Mickey Mouse!' I told her there were only Minnie Mouses and Daisy Ducks but I would try to get her something. Mom put in 50 cents and I went for a Daisy Duck that seemed to be in the right place to get picked up. It was. Sis kinda squeeled when the claw picked it up and dropped it in the prize box. We continued walking to the store selling kon's gift. When we got there, I made a bee line for the shelf she had found it in to learn it was no longer on the shelves. My heart dropped a little and I felt a bit alarmed. I asked the sales clerk if they were still selling them and she brought me to a little display that was partially hidden by other anime/manga knick-knacks at the far corner of the store, she asked 'This is the last one, you want?' Of course, I said yes. She went behind the desk to get the little cover/box thing, put it in a bag and handed it to me after I gave the $25.00. I'm so happy I snagged the last one, now I know kon won't get it herself. I was worried about her getting it before I gave it to her because the store has a no refund or exchange policy. Now we walked around the mall aimlessly going from store to store just to look at things. We got to the space where Borders used to be, it had been replaced with a store called Disney something something Outlet. crying Borders was way better. All this store had were a bunch of crappy old Disneyland or Animal Kingdom shirts, some as old as 2006, and those mouse-ear cap things. When we left, a guy from one of those shop carts in the middle stopped us by saying 'maganda,' maganda means pretty or beautiful in tagalog, with(what i think is) a strong italian accent to ask if he could demonstrate his hair irons on our hair. Mom didn't sit down but looked at me questioningly, I said sure so I sat down while he said stuff like 'This is 100% ceramic plate' or 'It is healthy for your hair' he kept reapeating 'maganda' and 'take a look.' My hair is really long and straight, it goes past my bum and I sit on it alot. He pulled out a flat iron and straighened it again as if it could get any straighter saying 'I know your hair is straight but, take a look, after I use the flat iron this hair is more silky and it gives it more volume.' Mom and I felt it and said 'yeah, it is' even though there was no difference, haha. He started curling my hair on the right side side of my head saying the iron's original price was $150 but he'd sell it to us for $99 he then put the flat iron back, the curls were pretty good by the way, picked up a comb and started combing all the curls really fast saying 'see, it stays curled even after I comb it many times, take a look.' The curls did stay, I thought that was impressive but every time he used the iron it smoked which made me think 'Oh no, he's burning my hair!' He then said 'I'll make a better deal,' he showed us some bottle, I think it's supposed to keep hair healthy or something, 'I give you this with the iron for only $89 I don't get commision because I'm the manager.' That was a pretty good deal considering we never tried to lower the price, but I never use hair irons bacause it's such a hassle and we didn't have the money for it so we didn't buy it. He straightened the curls with the flat iron then said 'here, you can come back later' he handed my mom a brocher he wrote '$89 forever' on saying 'if you come later, even another day, you can buy only $89.' We thanked him and left both Mom and I thought he was pretty desperate to sell one because of how fast he lowered the price. Sis wanted a smoothy at a Pac Sun stand so mom got us the 2 small smothies for $5 deal, Sis getting a Strawberry Bannana and I a Mocha Java. Mom and I sat down for 10 minutes while Sis played on one of those matts that respond to shadows, like if it has a ball and you kick it, it bounces even though it's not real. It was now about 6:25pm so I put the smoothies in my bag because the theater doesn't allow outside food or drink then we got up and walked to the theater, about 2 minutes away, when I saw my reflection in one the store windows and noticed the curls had come back which made me look wierd because he only curled the hair on the right side of my head and straightened it again. Anyway, we went into the theater, bought popcorn, a large rootbeer, and used the restroom. It is now 6:45pm, we open the auditorium door a crack to listen if the previous showing is still playing then went in when we were sure it wasn't, sat down and waited for Coraline to start. After Coraline we went into the mall again to search for the Daisy Duck doll it seems that somwhere along the way we had failed to notice it's disappearance. We never did find it so we went back to the machine and I tried to get another toy with $2.00.