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Been an "interesting" week. First off, I'll start with the fun and random bidding wars me and my sibling got in to this week. We use the app called "Own Your Friends" on MySpace, where you buy and sell your friends as pets. Him and I have been in our own lil friendly bidding war for sometime now, over a few people we both know: Liberty, Harmony, and Kathy mostly. Well, some random guy bought Liberty. We couldn't get her back right away, so we formed a temporary alliance, and hatched a plot to get her back. Carl got her back (only for now, till I buy her again, mwahaha) but we wanted to discourage a third party from moving in on someone we "fight" over ownership of anyway. Still being broke from the last time I bought Kathy (now worth well over $1,000,000) I was hurting for funds much more than Carl was. So, our plan: Spend what we have left, down to every last dollar if we had to, and buy him out! When he buys all his girls back from US, we'll make profit, and he wont be able to afford to buy Liberty again since he'll be too busy buying back the other girls! About 90% of them had a status message attached to the effect of: "Now part of (insert name here)'s enterprises for hotties". So, we changed them to the standard "Property of Carl/Crystal" after we bought them. After a while, I lost count of how many were bought... Well, needless to say, we got the impression he wasn't pleased the next time he logged on - he bought both me and Carl, and changed our status messages to "Fux with the empire, become part of the empire". LoL! So, we bought each other back from him right away. He bought a few of his own back, plus a few that we had. Luckily, most were just random people we owned, not anyone we're close to or are possessive of. They did buy some that Carl likes to keep, so he had to buy them back again. It seemed to end there, since we've seen no further action on his part. So, to make sure he knew that we were just having random fun, not being assholes, I sent him a human gift of one of my random pets, with a message that I was glad that he was a good sport about it. I hope he realizes that we really WERE just having fun with it, and not think I'm taunting him or anything. Good times.

Next... the rain we got off that tropical storm (Ida I think? Something like that...) flooded the basement! Reminder to those who have never been to my house: me and Carl, LIVE in the basement! I got out of bed right at 6am to take Sassy outside for a potty walk. I put my feet directly in a puddle of water. At first I thought Sassy had peed in the floor, but when I saw the sheer quantity of water, I knew there was no way that came from an animal. I had it coming in from 2 sides: the back door area, going across the area with the excercise equipment, and under my wall, and into my closet from there, to spread across my floor - as well as the water heater area in the storage room, to come across my floor and merge with the first one. So, I had a full tiny river ALL THE WAY ACROSS my room! Carl's room got his pretty good too, because the water from the storage room also went that way under the walls and in to his carpet, PLUS the leak that comes in at his closet on the other side of his room. So we BOTH got ambushed from 2 sides with water! The dryest thing in all this? The doggie bed. At first I thought the water is what woke Sassy up, thus waking me up. Nope. I picked her bed up, totally dry. At least that's one less thing we have to wash. From 6am until around 9pm, someone was constantly using a wet vac to get rid of this water. Mom and I went to Lowe's to buy a 2nd wet vac, so that way we could come at this mess from 2 sides. Insane day. We're all tired. So we gave up for the night. It is now about 10:30pm, and water has made it from the storage room, around/under my desk, and is headed towards my bed at a fairly decent speed. So I guess that means that it's time for me to submit this and shut down my electronics. Water + live wires = small fire. And as much water as this is, I don't trust it to put out any fires it may start. So it looks like me, and my two 4-legged furry children, get to sleep upstairs tonight....

As I posted on my Twitter earlier today: Where is Noah when you need him!? After this flood, I BETTER see some freaking rainbows!

~C~

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