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I got a big day ahead of me tomorrow!

We don't even celebrate it in my country. I'm a little jealous of that, but then being annoyed at how it's EVERYWHERE just because it's American and the US is a major country who's infulence or somehting is all over the world is the same as someone who doesn't celebrate Christmas being annoyed at Christmas being EVERYWHERE just because it's a famous and tradional time that many people and many religions celebrate and stuff.

Whatever annoys you, there is always something you do that annoys others. I just made that up just now.

We recently imported Hallowe'en into the Netherlands. The kicker is that we already had our own religious equivalent of it in the form of 'Allerheiligen' (literally 'All Hallows'), while the tradition of kids going by the doors to ask for sweets while carrying lanterns was merged with the celebration of Saint Martin (celebrated mostly in the northern part of the Netherlands) on the 11th of November. Similar to how the popularity of American culture helped introduce Father Christmas to Dutch Christmas celebration tradition, even though we had already been celebrating the holiday of Saint Nicholas on the 6th of December.
The introduction of Hallowe'en into Holland is mostly commercially motivated, as it will typically cause a great spike in the sale of sweets, pumpkins, novelty costumes, and general handicraft products like glue, paper, etc. In other words, as is typical here in the Netherlands, it's all about the 'cha-ching'! The kids love it, and just go along with it.

Lalalala, surfing the want ad sites looking for a job...

Lalalala, listening to some Tony Toni Toné....

i saw an ad for a product called "the official brooklyn lantern" in the TV today, and it is a device that has LED lights in it that can be switched on to light up a room during a blackout.

i was almost tempted to buy it until they said that the LED lights would shine for 100,000 hours.
i rang every electronics company i could think of and asked them if they sold stop watches that ran for 100,000 hours and they said "no", so i decided that i could not accurately measure how long they would stay lit, so i could never verify their claim to my satisfaction.

sometimes it is better to say less in commercials.

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Man, people watch perverted stuff (video saving places often have what's recently saved by someone...).

I received one for Christmas last year. It is made of extremely flimsy material.

Welp, my youngest half-sister has gotten me addicted to Pinterest.

I realised today that I hadn't taken my anxiety meds (diazepam) for about three days and I felt perfectly fine I've been dependent on them and taking them daily for over a year! Of course immediately I had this realisation I had an anxiety episode and had to take some, lol. But I think I may have reached the point where I only need to take them for acute episodes of anxiety. I really hope so because that would be a Really Good Thing.

*yawn* I feel happy today.

I got asked for ID today buying wine with my groceries at the supermarket. Seriously, I am 39.

Last month I had my dosage of Xanax bumped up, and it has cut my worrying and other negative feelings down immensely. There are some days when I don't even worry at all, which I used to think was impossible. I also find myself laughing a lot more often.

The last time I bought protein powder, the scoop wasn't on the top.

At college I can't help feeling like a baby at times. I mean, I'm in the younger half of the class, since some did things the year before they came, and I have some teaching assistant in almost every lesson, mostly for my needs. Apparently, they're there for someone elsei nmy group as well, but I can't think why, they seem perfectly normal in emotions to me.

Jeez, I shoulda woke up earlier. But I am up now, thankfully!