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I spent fifteen minutes Saturday chasing my little sister around Volde-Mart with an umbrella. :-| ... Well, she was the one with the umbrella, actually. She wanted a belt for her sparkley gray jeans, so we went in and found her one in periwinkle blue. Then her eye got caught by the umbrella display nearby and she fell in love with one that was covered in bright neon-coloured flowers. (Personally, I liked the black one with white polka-dots better, but anyway...) She was going to get both that and the belt until she realized she couldn't afford both.

Me: *puts umbrella in cart* That's okay, I'll get it.
Her: *groping for umbrella* I can just get it next week.
Me: Nah, it's only $4.
Her: Noooo. *grabs umbrella and runs off to hide it.*
Me: *pursues her through electronics "C'mon, it's only $4!" sporting goods "You danced when you saw it, and your old one's pretty much dead!" and hobbies "Now, this is just getting silly. >_< "*
Her: *loops back past the umbrellas and belts*
Me: *grabs identical umbrella from rack and holds it up to the dulcet crooning of a heavenly choir* That's okay, they have more. ^_^
Her: Curses, foiled again!
*a bit later*
Me: *whistling cheerfully on the way out to the car.*
Her: I'm paying you back.
Me: I'll just get you something else with it. ^_^
Her: >_< *growls*

In other news, I've gone and done something very silly... I joined here: snape_after_dh.  That's not the silly part.  The silly part is I decided to participate along with four other writers on posting my version of Severus Snape: A Life. So, the biography fic, the one I've been working on, it now has a deadline.  
Feedback would be lovely on it, if anyone would mind?  I'll have chapter two finished before I leave for Aurey's Thursday morning, and I've got a lot of the story already developed in my head, but deadlines make me skittish.  I may regret this. >_<  I really may...