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Brother didn't want to do the freedom trail due to 60% chance of rain. My mom told us to just look up the places online. It's really not the same. He wanted to watch a movie, and we needed to return the skirts my grandma didn't like to the mall, so we watched the movie there. Ended up going with The Happening. Only one other dude was in the theatre with us.

I thought it was pretty lame, because some of the dialogue/acting between the main character couple was weak, that element was contrived anyway, central park is so cliché, the knee-jerk "terrorists" reaction is retarded, the powers of two thing was just ridiculous (I could only verify 8,4,2,1 because counting groups of people is hard, but the man talked about it in the car to the hysterical fat lady), it ended sappily, and the whole damn thing was moralistic. Maybe I'm just pissed that they attacked the northeast and france. Meanwhile, my mom is babbling inanely through the whole thing, and my brother's pretending there's such deep meaning in it because he's an aspiring filmmaker himself. Best things about it:
1.) I recognized that the France scene was in France just from round little trees along the sidewalk in the park.
2.) A (real or invented?) CMU professor gave a report on the news.
3.) I like John LeGuizamo's pointy teeth. Dunno.

Then we went to Kmart to look for old lady clothes. They were better than what we found at the mall (in the "more awful" sense), but nothing fit my grandma because she refuses to acknowledge that she is fat. She thinks she needs misses size clothing, and complains about why the crotch is so short, calling herself "long-waisted", when really it's fat rolls and trying to pull up the waistband higher than it wants to be. So we'll have to return them later too. Also got her slippers that clean the floor for you and surge protectors at Bed, Bath and Beyond.

Made dough for pie crusts while my mom made dinner. Dinner was awkward. I wished my brother had recorded the obnoxious singing in pretend chinese of both my mom and grandma and when they were talking about how black people got the last strawberry shortcake and samples of pineapple cake in shaw's, don't they like watahmelon best? Seriously, I am so glad to be away from them.

My grandma's new digital converter box isn't working so great... we really can't do anything right for her.

And my mom seems to be more disgusting and annoying than my grandma.

I can't believe I've only been here two and a half days.