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Ack!

Google changed again! I was just getting used to the larger search bar and now they do this to me? It just looks wrong to me...

So, found my Borders gift card the other day and now am putting it to use patching up holes in my manga collection. Now, if only I can find that Amazon gift card from my roommate... I know it's in this house somewhere, probably hidden in between the pages of one of my MANY textbooks, which makes finding it impossibly hard. I'm going to give it a go tonight and tomorrow, hopefully I'll find it. If so, more manga to fix those holes in my collection. If not, eh, well, it's not like I'm losing something incredibly important. It's been lost for three years so a little more time being lost won't hurt it.

I went and bought my fruit today for my Mother's Day Cake. Raisins, which are not for my cake are expensive. But I've discovered that despite my siblings cool reception to the oatmeal raisin cookie, it is a hit amongst the parentals! How rare! They don't touch my chocolate chip ones, my brownies, muffins and cupcakes all get a pass and my Chinese-ifed sugar cookies (less fat, and less sugar, but soft and chewy) only get a meh from them. But the oatmeal raisin? They get polished off like crazy! My second batch -- that one where only half the cookies turned out right? Well, out of the dozen cookies that made it, I only got to eat TWO. TWO. Why? Because they were gone within a day. I was shocked. And dismayed. I only had the one from the day that I made them (because I ate the remains of the failure cookies that weren't quite cooked through -- salmonella didn't kill me though! -- and didn't have room for more) and the next day when I woke up, they were all gone except one. Half of one really, with two raisins picked out of it of a cookie -- I assume my grandmother's doing since she can't eat hard foods yet with her new dentures. So then I immediately scoffed that bit of a cookie down in my shock. And I ate the two raisins too. OTL

Anyway, I digress. Raisins, expensive. Not cool. Strawberries, which I had thought to be my most expensive purchase, was actually pretty decent at $1.50 for a pound. I don't think I've seen it that low in a while actually so I was pleasantly surprised. Kiwis, well, I still have no idea how to pick a ripe kiwi (soft, mushy to the touch maybe? *shrugs*) but hopefully they won't be too sour. And I bought pectin because I couldn't find unsweetened gelatin. Hopefully that works in the same way in stabilizing the organic heavy whipping cream I bought. They only had the organic in regards to heavy whipping cream and though they had a cheaper, normal whipping cream, somehow, I think the heavy one would probably work better. I've used it before so at least I know it works and I didn't want to chance the regular whipping cream not whipping up well because of the lower fat content. We're already screwed as it is with our pasteurized, lower fat dairy products as it is, I don't want to exacerbate it.

Okay, off to tackle my textbook collection. Hopefully, I won't make too much of a mess. Or kill myself from tipping any of them over... I still have a bruise on my foot from last week when I dropped a textbook on it... :(