The Legion, otherwise known as Keeping the voices at bay....

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Highlight of the day - hot, gooey chocolate chip cookies. Ok...so I had a pretty boring day, big deal.

Boring isn't actually correct. Mind numbingly boring is more accurate. Not that getting a new stereo surround sound home theater system is boring but...guess what, it actually kind of is. At least it is when you've paid almost $400 for it and get it home and begin unpacking it only to find out that there is no manual, no remote control and no speaker wire to hook it up. Poor Junior. He was so mad. Especially considering it was his purchase and he's been wanting one for about 2 years.

So after spending about two hours listening to him talk to Wal-Mart on the phone he finally left to go back down. Then it took another hour for him to set it up. And now? He's planning on returning it Monday and getting another one because something appears to be wrong with this one. Gah...Wal-Mart is a pain in the ass sometimes.

One of these days I'd like Junior to let me handle one of these situations. Having 14 years of retail experience comes in handy when things like this happen. Not only would I have got everything that was missing but I'm pretty sure I could have gotten something extra too. It's all in how you handle the situation. As long as you don't lose your temper and sound like a raving lunatic with a gun. Which, I have to admit, I have been known to do on occasion. Doesn't help that I have a short temper and I hate it when people are patronising or condescending. Which a lot of people are in these kind of situations.

Enough about that or I'm going to end up doing my impression of a supernova. Actually, despite the tediousness of the day, I actually enjoyed myself. It's pretty nice to actually have a day where I don't have to do anything. I don't have to go to the gym, I don't have to cook dinner (cookies don't count), I don't have any dishes to do (don't even go there...), and my laundry is in the dryer. What a relaxing day. All I had to do was be here. Which is such a relief. I didn't even have Lisa bugging me every 5 minutes asking for help with her homework. Yay me!

Lisa did invite me to go out tonight. Ugh. I so could not go out. I really don't think I could handle the hoards of teenagers and twenty-somethings in the bars tonight. Sometimes I think Canada should follow the US and raise thier drinking age to 21. I hate going to bars and getting hit on by horny 19 year olds that think they're hot stuff. Even before my current boyfriend, I hated it. Yeah it's flattering that a guy almost ten years younger finds me attractive, but really people. I mean I'm 27...I don't find guys of 19 all that attractive. They're immature and inexperienced. I didn't like them much when I was that age, let alone now.

I think I may actually attempt to go to bed early tonight. The only show I avidly watch on Saturdays (Andromeda) is already over and there's not really anything else on so...I think it might turn out to be an early night for Candy. Either that or I may sit in my chair and watch the boys (Junior and Chris) play Sonic for the GameCube. Night all.

"This concludes our broadcast day." - Jim Carey in Cable Guy