shopping overload

Hi all, and how goes it? I can't believe how fast the summer's going. I got back from Florida on Sunday, and that was great fun. Florida, I mean. The getting back was pretty standard. But yeah, Florida, beach, fun-in-the-sun, pretty basic, cool vacay.

So then yesterday was insane---we (my mom and I) were out running errands and such all day; college preparations, ya know. We dropped off my bike at the bike repair place to get it in working order to take with me, and we dropped my laptop off at the jeweler's to get my name engraved on the back so hopefully it won't grow legs at college. Then we went to Wells Fargo and opened two accounts for me, one checking and one savings---it's this college plan thing they've got, where you get the two accounts plus a credit card and a check card, which is pretty handy, but then I also sent in a credit card application Monday, before we found out about that, so now within 10 business days or so, I'll have two credit cards, a check card, and a box of checks with my name on them. Not too bad for a girl who currently uses only cash or the occasional food scrap.

Then after that we went to Fashion Bug to do some prerequisite back-to-school wardrobe perking. They were having their end-of-summer uber-clearance type thing, so we got some pretty sweet deals. I actually got a dress. I have no idea what I'll do with it, but I have it. Including my prom dress, this makes three dresses I've bought since age four, and before that I can't remember, so...yeah. I mean, I like a good twirly skirt, but dresses? Idk I just never wear them.

Anyway, so then we went to Office Depot and got my brother's school supplies, his pencil box and number two pencils and Crayola crayons......ah, third grade. *sigh* Those were the days. :) And we got a dry-erase/bulletin board combo for my dorm room, plus some notebooks and stuff like that for me. I got my very own stapler. It rocks.

Later today we're going to go pick up my laptop and then go to K-Mart or someplace for a lamp and comforter and other stuff for my dorm room, and I think after that my mother may well explode from shopping overload. She's not a fan. At least we got the clothes shopping all done yesterday; she really hates that.