I talked to a very close friend from my year in UCRiverside--my roommate for a year, to be exact. It was really great talking to her, and I had forgotten just about EVERYTHING about her, and I felt kid of sad that I had such terrible memory. I agreed to buy her a 4 day ticket to Fanime and let her live in my hotel room with my BAAU buddies (I am sure they won't be pissed if I say I will pay for her). I just really want to see her again. I am going to mail her a little 'gift envelope' of some stickers and buttons I made recently, that I am sure she will be overjoyed to have too.

This morning I had a cramp from 7am to 12, and I had to sleep through it in a fetal position with menthol oil rubbed on my belly to get rid of it. I feel better, although now I feel like another wave is coming. This is probably the second time in my entire life that I actually had a cramp where I'd actually be bothered with it (usually I can just bear the pain and let it pass, but these are ferocious cramps). The feeling is like when you really got to shit, but the shit won't come out, but you REALLY feel like you have to shit, and you know there is no shit stuck in your ass. Oh, and add a couple of little boys punching you in the stomach, and the feeling of trying to throw up but have nothing come out of your throat. That kind of felt like what it was this morning for a few hours.

I followed my parents to Lucky's to go to the Coinstar machine, because I was afraid my parents would be robbed of the shitload of coins they are going to bring in (literally, 5 boxes filled with coins, 4 of which are pennies though). We spent more than 2 hours piling coins into the machine to cash in. Dang. Most were pennies though, so it wasn't like I got 500 bucks out of the thing. After 4 hours of cashing in all the coins, we got about 304 dollars--not bad, seeing as most of them were PENNIES.

Then I talked to my parents about putting my saved up convention money into the bank account, but NOT in my credit card account thingie. They said something about me having a 'savings account' and explained to me what the hell it was. Apparently, if you stick a shitload of money in it, and you don't take any out, you actually EARN money inside the bank account or something. I was like 'Jeesus fuck, why didn't you tell me that?!' Recently, I have been paranoid that someone--robbers, parents, siblings, whoever--is going to go in my room and find my wad of cash and steal it. So I am going to cash in a large amount of my savings into that thing before it ALL goes bye bye (plus, this 'interest' thing means that all that cash is going to raise up more and more if I don't take any money out, which I never do). I am really excited, because my secret 'hiding place' for my cash is getting so stuffed, I can barely put any more bills in it. I think it's a great place, because it camouflages with the surroundings of the rest of my room so much it looks practically normal, and you don't even see the money through it even if you stare at it because it covers the money so well. I plan to put 90% of my saved up convention cash in it, since i don't plan to use it for a decade or so, and keep enough cash to use for paying for prints and such. After Kinyoobi con, I will hopefully earn around 150 bucks, which will get my wallet money back in my usual line to prepare for Fanime next year. In total for Fanime, I must save up at least 250 dollars for ticket, room, and food, for me and my friend. Shit, if I knew Savings accounts were so positive, I would have cashed in my money years ago T_T. (I would have earned HUNDREDS of dollars goddammit > ) But the moment I cash this moo-lah in, I will be more relieved that it will be more safe. My parents promised me they won't take any money out of it, so I hope they keep their word.