Sunny California

My 8-9 y/o cousins are doing music theory homework and Chinese work, and they are SO good at it. More advanced than me! Thank you, piano teacher that teaches crap theory to me. I know I've said this before maybe, but Moorpark weather is AMAZING. It was 22 degrees today and it's meant to be winter. The sky is always always blue without a single cloud. It's like Sydney, only surrounded by mountains and better weather. I want to find a bookstore so I can get 'Dreams of Joy', the sequel to 'Shanghai Girls'. My uncle got me 'The Boleyn Inheritance' at the Shanghai Bookstore which is a pretty good book, I read a lot of it on the plane. Went Christmas light watching last night with my mum's cousin, my great-uncle and my two cousins. It was fun.

I went shopping today with my mum's cousin. She is so awesome, I've mentioned she looks 20somethingish and today she told me she's 35. I kind of get on more like a friend with her, she acts pretty young and fun. I mentioned to her I was going to go shopping sometime but was going to go to Downtown LA today (which is really distinct, the only bit of land in LA with skyscrapers), and she said why not go after-christmas shopping with her because she was going anyway, and since Christmas was on a Sunday today is a holiday for Government workers. Which makes downtown LA unsafe today because it's full of government buildings (no residents), so usually it's ok when there's workers and security guards. But since they have a day off today, downtown LA is pretty unsafe. Went to the Oaks Mall and Camarillo Premium Outlets. Bought a TONNE of crap. It's kind of cheap, but it's annoying because sales tax isn't added on, and it's different in each city. So they add on the 7.25% tax at checkout (8.25% in LA, boo). Which is why they have 1 cent coins, because say I bought a top and pants for $10, well with tax added on at the counter it comes to some annoying number that they don't round off because 1 cent coins are used. As I said, I went to SO MANY shops and bought so much stuff. I have a lot of bags, going to count them as I post (bought stuff at these stores, basically the cheapest stores):

-Yankee Candles (50% off some stuff)
-Charlotte Russe (buy 1 get 1 free)
-Abercrombie & Fitch (50% off)
-American Eagle (marked down prices)
-Charlotte Russe again
-Bath and Body works x 2 bags (50% off Christmas stuff)
-Sony (20% off)
-Forever XXI x 2(buy one get one free. enough said)
-Polo Ralph Lauren (is it weird that I went there to buy a towel?)
-Ed Hardy (Is it weird that I saw everything instore was 40% off and I went and got myself a huge hairbrush that says 'love kills slowly' with a skull?)
-Juicy Couture (there was a 30% off storewide)

That makes 13 bags of shopping. Don't worry, we went to 2 malls remember so I guess that equates to carrying about 7 bags at once each mall trip. We were going to go to Walmart because I wanted to visit one (closest one is 10min drive) but we shopped from like 10am to 6pm so we were totally tired. Now I got myself ALL the winter clothes I need for the rest of my high school life!

All my bags