i don't mind sleeping on your floor

"Things are better spontaneous", that was the text message I got. Friday I had plans but didn't really have plans. I went with Cailey, Megan, and Tess to North Hill to go look for stuff for their RHPS costumes. We bought chocolate at Shoppers', bought Girl Guide cookies from a cute girl you just couldn't say no to.

After that, Cailey and I left to go other places. I went to the Folk Fest headquarters, a trek that took half an hour, and when I got there, that white sign made my heart drop, and made me turn around and head back. I met Carly at the train station! I hadn't seen Carly in the longest time, it was really nice. We had a good six minute conversation before Heather arrived.

I met my sister's friend at CJSW, apparently my sister is liked. That's surprising. I'm kidding. We got earplugs and pins, even Heather, who pledged NOTHING. After that, we hung around the cafeteria. And this is things just sprang up. I wasn't supposed to go a show that night. I wasn't supposed to stay out at 11. Friday nights are the ones I spend doing homework .. at home! But that was what happened. That show was pretty much the most intimate concert I've ever been to (although I haven't gone to many concerts). The Winks were amazing! I regret not buying anything from them, but really, I had no money. I'm really sad I didn't get to see The Grim Beat.

Saturday morning I played basketball at the school, which was fun. I didn't suck, which is a good thing, even though I've got to build up my endurance. It was fun playing against Brooke and Aneca, they are so tall. It felt good faking out people. Right after basketball, I went to work, and made ninja stars. Adam and Ed are such fun guys. At the end of the night, Ed tried on a compression shirt, which was just hilarious.

After work, my family went out for Japanese food for my sister's birthday. I didn't realize that I liked sushi, but it was good. The beef teriyaki was the best, though. After that, we went to see Dan in Real Life, which was a good enough movie. Some people from Abe sat beside my sister and I, which was pretty weird, because it was that kind of thing where you know who they are, but they don't really know you. But anyways.

Sunday, which was yesterday, I went to Scream Fest with Megan and Mikki, which was really fun and unexpected, seeing as we made plans an hour before we met up. It was fun watching Megan and Mikki get scared, and laughing at them. Some things were really scary, though. Like the Black Hole. That guy freaked me out, seriously! In the festival tent, I found five dollars on the ground, and Megan basically took it from me. It was a really good weekend.

Today, I got yelled at for talking twice. I got told, "We approve of you" at lunch. I tried on my Halloween costume and it is epic.

"If I die, it's all your fault."

listening to: the park - feist

my moon and me, not as good as we've been

I like the little touches between us, and the small bits of conversation we have. The glances across the room and the smiles. I don't know if you like me or not ("in that way"), but man for some reason I can't stop thinking about you. This is weird. Feelings don't usually come this fast for me, but suddenly that's how it is, and I want your company and I want your messages. I hope I don't seem this obvious.

i'll give you something to be sad about

I'm going to take a break from life, and start focusing on school.
My 80% in bio is not good enough for my mom.

1 2 3 4 tell me that you love me more

Even though the singing was fun, looking at bugs under the microscope was awesome, playing soccer was nice, making random stories was hilarious, stargazing was breathtaking, the ninja fights were EPIC, being out with the trees was relaxing, the "other stuff" (you know what I mean) was awkward, the milk chugging was interesting, and just hanging out with everybody was great,

nothing, NOTHING compared to lying beside you and talking you to sleep. Talking for two hours straight about everything that needed to be said. I am so, so glad that this trip happened. Last night made my life.

what is love, baby don't hurt me

Choir camp recap! In case it turns out sounding bland, and you can't tell whether I had a good time or not, I did! It was such an awesome time. It might have beat band camp!

When we got to our room the first night, I found out that I could swing on the door by stepping on the door knob, and that just basically started the Asian stereotypes. As if they weren't doing that already. By the way, all those comments were so hilarious. We discovered a newfound love for tetherball, and spent so, so much time playing! I got owned, even though I had my karate war cries and karate chops. We had our huge group activity, and that was ok. When our group was playing Red Rover, one of the girls ate the pavement and that ended every other group's chance of playing. But it was so funny.

That night we all sat on Bronwyn and Sheila's beds, and talked for a couple hours. Basically nobody had a good night's sleep that night. I was having a dream about finding toonies and keeping them away from Jocelyne, Leslie, Cailey, and somebody else, and walls being renovated, and right when I thought that the floor was about to fall below me, Jocelyne pulled my sleeping bag (she denies this) trying to get down from her bunk bed. Waking up at 6:45 was harsh.

During activities we first went through the bungee cage. Cailey got through in 11 seconds, and I think that's a record. I only managed 17 seconds. After that, we played dodgeball, and our team won twice before losing, and we went off to play ultimate frisbee. I hit Jocelyne in the lip with the frisbee, and caused her lip to swell, but after that we told everyone that I hit her with a nun chuck. We were winning, too. After that we played tether ball, which was ridiculously fun. Cailey lost to Mrs. Digel, and I won to Mr. Paddock. Man, I wish those were recorded!

We played soccer after, and surprisingly I didn't do too bad in goal. The grass was really slippery and I ended up slipping a lot. I think that's why my bum muscles are so sore. Our team got owned. The clinic was really, really long. I'm pretty sure after lunch we played more tether ball. I almost fell asleep during full rehearsal, even though the guest conductor was interesting. During our quiet time, instead of sleeping, I played ultimate frisbee with Cailey, Megan, Mikki, Cole, and Gavin, and it was so much fun. Playing "Piggy in the Middle" with Megan in the middle for the majority of the time was even more fun. Especially when she wasn't in the middle, and we'd throw it to her just so she wouldn't catch it and she'd have to go back in the middle. My hands are bruised from blocking frisbees and hitting tether balls.

During dinner my whole table laid on the Asian stereotypes. "Is the fact that you don't have peripheral vision the reason why your country doesn't have a hockey team?" We laughed so hard. After dinner was more tetherball (!!) with Gavin, Elliot, and Bronwyn. I lost every time. I climbed a tree and when I was going back down, and I made it to the ground before falling down. I tried to throw the frisbee between two trees and ended up hitting the biggest one. We did karaoke for our activity that night, and everyone sang along to I Will Survive, Mambo No. 5, along others. The machine stopped working when it was my group's turn, it was depressing. We ended up having a dance party, and what a sweaty, awesome dance party that was. We all sang to Queen.

When we went back to our cabin, Gavin and Cole came by to pop some popcorn. I tried to ninja kick the microwave door button, but my leg wasn't long enough so I ended up wiping out. The popcorn didn't pop enough, and so they put it in a second time. Megan walked from the bathroom to our room with just a towel on, and Gavin got busted for taking a look. I tried ninja kicking the microwave door button again, this time by launching myself on the counter and then kicking. I hit the button, but it didn't click enough so I wiped out again. I got angry at the microwave so I punched the button until the door opened. It ripped some skin off of my pinky knuckle.

I slept between Hayley and Bronwyn that night, and we talked again until only 12:30. We kept almost going to sleep, and then someone would say something and Bronwyn would break out into her super cool laugh, and that would get us fired up again. I don't feel like I actually got much sleep last night. When I was about to fall asleep, I started to dream that I was playing ultimate frisbee, and when I was trying to catch the frisbee, my arm totally snapped back and hit Bronwyn. She was sleeping, though. At first I was fine, and on Bronwyn's bed, but eventually Bronwyn started inching towards me, and I ended up on the wooden part between the two beds. And then Hayley got really close too. I think I was waiting for 7:15 to come just so I could get up for a reason.

We packed, and then Cailey and I played tetherball (!!!). I lost five rounds in a row. After that, we joined everyone else, and eventually our conversation led to the junior highs we attended, to how I went to Langevin (and nobody knows where that is), to how everyone in my class was Asian (I think I said something along the lines of "if you were WHITE, you were made fun of!"), which eventually led to Asian tourists and how they always make the peace sign when they take pictures. And after that, basically every picture we took we did the "ASIAN POSE!" Except Leslie, who didn't approve. Fifteen different people did the Asian pose in my pictures. Even Mr. Waters.

On the bus ride home, there were a bunch of us who "didn't want to sing, we want to sleep!" But we all got the back, and we ALL sang any song we knew the words to. We were very, very loud. Camp Chestemere, however, isn't that far out from Calgary, so we didn't sing for as long as Jocelyne, Bronwyn, and Sheila did the ride home from band camp.

Man I loved choir camp!

i saw this young lady all wrapped in white linen

If you recorded every thought you ever had,
took a picture of every sight, recorded every sound,
would you go over them at the end of the day?
Somebody should invent a machine
that could capture every thought the instant you thought it.
I would buy it.

abbey,

Currently, I should be starting on a powerpoint presentation for social studies, or studying for the unit test I will be having in biology, but I am deciding that I will combine the two things you read by me into one. Rest assured, this will not replace a note, because there are some things I'd rather say privately, but currently this feels like the only way to write this entry.

Right now I am listening to your CD. I am on the first song. "What's A Girl To Do," that's the title, right? I like it. I wish someday we can just sit down and have a long talk, I miss times like those. The other day, on the way home from band camp, I had a really good talk with one of my friends, and I learned so much about her! It was amazing. I had a BALLIN' time at band camp! It was much better than last year, when I knew nobody and spent the nights doing homework. No, this time we danced and talked, and sung until our voices were hoarse. And we did band rehearsals.

I dream about talking to people. You have popped up in my dreams once in a while. Other times, I'm just going through my day. When I was at band camp, one night when at 2 in the morning, we were talking and I was almost drifting into a sleep when suddenly I heard all this drumming in my head. Like, tribal music! It was so trippy. I got freaked out and I woke up.

Those Nexopia internet surveys irritate me SO much! I hate it when people have like a zillion of those things posted in their blogs. Like, they don't have any substantial to actually say? Those things are so superficial. I refuse to do them. I've only ever posted one of those, it was a "how dumb are you?" quiz, and I was only 6% dumb. But that was when I was in grade nine, and I have never posted another survey thing EVER after that.

I enjoyed the New Pornographers so, so much, it was amazing. My sisters and I got front row spots right in front of Dan Bejar. He's my older sister's favorite. Mine's Neko Case. I didn't think that any cameras would be allowed, because there were guys checking bags at the front. But I saw a lot of flashes, so I guess some people managed to get their cameras in.

Both of my sisters liked it, both of them were there. Did you not see them when we passed by to go home? Yes, my younger sister is so, so tall. We went to the doctor's today and she is in the 80th percentile regarding her height. I'm just below 50. I think her pants make her look taller too, for some reason. She just got them in Seattle, and they are skinny jeans, and for some reason she just looks so overwhelmingly tall in them. By the way, for some reason both of my sisters know you, and every time I talk about a friend, they always assume it's you. I go like, "so my friend ..." and then they're like "oh, is it that Abbey girl?" Yes, they call you that Abbey girl. Is that weird?

How soon is soon? Getting a tattoo sounds exciting, I wish I was brave enough to get one. Did I ever tell you that once I had a dream that I was getting a tattoo so some friends of mine (I don't even know who they were) could get change for french fries? I've never felt so shaky in my sleep! My back kept seizing up in my sleep, I don't know if it was actually doing that for real. I was getting the tattoo on the back of my neck. It was going to be an eighth note, because of a 6Teen episode I watched where one of the characters was really into music and was getting a tattoo for some reason, so he got an eighth note on his arm. Anyways.

I am on track five of the first CD right now. I can't believe you burnt two CDs! And that the first one has 20 tracks on it! That's unbelievable! Thank you so much for them. As of now, I have had three CDs burnt for me. Not including the one my cousin burnt for me when I was really young. It had the Backstreet Boys and O-Town on it. I really love burning CDs for people, even though it always takes me a long time to decide the track listing. I go through pretty much all of my songs on my iPod. Some songs I know immediately that I'm going to put it on a CD, no matter what, but some of them I take a double take and go, "hey, I think that would be so amazing for (the person receiving the CD)." You know what is awesome? Mix tapes. Tapes were so awesome. When my cousins and my siblings and I used to go skiing together, we'd bring our mix tapes and play them on the way there and back, and sing to them. I loved those ski trips. I remember listening to LFO. Have you ever heard the song "Girl on TV"?

I will answer the questions right now, you will get your questions (and some more writing) tomorrow:
1. Do you do drugs?
No, I do not do drugs. I used to take antihistamines when I was ten, because I used to have eczema and it would keep me up at night. They didn't work. I tried a lot of stuff to get rid of my eczema. I used to have to drink this powdered vitamin shit in water that was the GROSSEST STUFF EVER!!! God I hated it so much, and I had to drink a cup of it every single day for a whole summer.
2. What kind of shampoo do you use?
I use Pantene Pro-V, the conditioner makes my hair feel really, really smooth after I wash it! But really, I use whatever is on sale, because that's the only reason why my mom would buy it. I have such an Asian family, seriously.
3. What are you most scared of?
I'm not really sure. I have this weird fear of feet, but I don't think it's what I'm most scared of. But I HATE FEET! They creep me out, I don't know why, I don't like looking at them or touching them or anything. My siblings make fun of me for it and they always terrorize me with their feet. I hate it. I don't know. I guess I am kind of scared of dying. Not of death, but just how I die. What I'm sliced open, and that's the way I die? That's scary! Although it also sounds very cool.
4. What are you listening to right now?
Hey Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken! Track 8! I love this song. I haven't listened to Camera Obscura in awhile, although it's on my iPod. They are such an amazing band, I love their lyrics. I guess I would have to thank Heather for getting me into them.
5. Who was the last person that called you?
Heather was the last person I talked to, and I'm sorry if it was a terrible conversation, because I was really tired! Heather is the only person who ever calls me, it's a bit devastating. Just kidding. I'm not very good on the phone, talking in person is so much better. I'm getting a new cell phone in the next few weeks and I will be getting UNLIMITED EVENINGS AND WEEKENDS! Which is so much better than my old plan! Which means that I am going to have to totally take advantage of this situation! I don't know what kind of phone I want to get. I kind of want a Chocolate, but my friend said that they weren't very good. But, the white one looks so good! Looks vs Productivity, I don't know. It's a hard decision.
6. Where do you want to get married?
Why would you plan your wedding right now? That is ridiculous. What if you planned an underwater wedding when you're sixteen, and then when you are getting married, years later, it turns out that your fiance is afraid of water? Or, even worse, ALLERGIC to water? Then your dreams are shattered. And plus, who says I'll ever get married? The question should be, "Where WOULD you want to get married?" And I don't know. I don't think about these things. I'll tell you one thing, though: I wouldn't want a huge wedding. I've seen Bridezilla, and Rich Pride Poor Bride, and those weddings are ridiculous. Why would you spend so much money on something like that? Maybe eloping is a good option.
7. What would you change about yourself?
I don't know what I'd change. Maybe I'd make myself not exist. It would make so many people happier. Like, my parents. And my siblings. There would be so much more money for my family.
8. What are essentials in your life?
I'd have to say my friends, I honestly don't know what I'd do without them. This morning almost drove me nuts because I missed English, which is when I see all of my band friends. Instead, I had to go to the stupid doctor's! And my friends are the only reason why I like school. So, if I didn't have my friends, I would be a very, very sad person. Also, very lonely.
9. If you had the power to do any one thing, what would it be?
I would have to say that I'd want the power to go to any concert I wanted to. That would be so amazing! I'd want to see Final Fantasy this week, and Chad VanGaalen and Stars in November, and Kevin Drew in December. I'd also want to see Feist, because she is my ultimate favorite artist ever, and Darren Frank in Edmonton, and The New Pornographers ... again!! But then I'd wish that Broken Social Scene would get back together, because they would be such an amazing band to see live. I've read reviews! They sound like they're epic live!
10. What nationality are you?
This is really a question you want me to answer? I'm Chinese. Some people think I'm Japanese, because of my last name, but I assure you I am not. At band camp, there were a ridiculous number of times someone would say something that would infer a Chinese stereotype. It was really funny. Even the student teacher made some jokes about Chinese people.
11. Do you send out holiday cards each year?
Only to my grandparents, and they are hand drawn by ME. Because apparently nobody else in my family can make a decent card. I also make them cards for their birthday and for Mother's Day and Father's Day. It makes me sick of cards.

So anyways, this is a ridiculously long note-blog thing, wow! Hopefully I will have something to still write!

Love Allison

p.s. This is the very first time I have not used a song lyric for my title!

listening to: track 18. This song is in a commercial, isn't it? For Virgin Mobile?

just a small town boy living in south detroit

I am so exhausted right now. Band camp was super fun, I had a lot of fun. It seemed like it passed by really quickly, I don't know.

On the bus ride to the camp, the can of Pringles spilled in Leslie's bag, and Leslie and Jocelyne panicked. They started putting chips back into the can, and then they ate the crumbs from the bag. And from Leslie's clothing. It was so epic. Especially when Jocelyne got one of Leslie's hairs in her mouth. We played the license plate game and Zitchdog, and Tamara punched my camera and hurt her hand. I ate a Nutrigrain bar without taking apart the two layers triumphantly, which would later lead to me choking on my spaghetti and spitting it out. After dinner, we had a huge band bonding time, which was OK, I guess. Jocelyne and I skipped snack time and had a dance party in our cabin, consisting of just the two of us. I am terrible at dancing. It lead to Leslie and Jocelyne singing "I Can Hear the Bells", which was so amazing because Leslie was so into it and Jocelyne jumped onto the bed and almost wiped out. We played Who'd You Do, Eat/Boat/Make Babies, and Truth until 2:00.

The next day, we had sectionals and percussion was pretty intense. I have to say that we sounded pretty good. After that Cailey, Jocelyne, Suzanne and I went to wall climbing and watched Sam get owned. After we went to the ropes courses. Jocelyne couldn't swing across the rope. Mr. Elephant Man went across the log on the high ropes course and one of the counselors grabbed the other rope he was attached to and made him slam into the log. It was awesome. After we made him rush through the low ropes course and he sprained his ankle. I sprained my wrist during Jugs & Jog, and we lost right after. We played Charades, which was really fun because we all chanted everyone's names when they were going up. After we had a dance party outside, and we did faux-karaoke in the dark. That night, we talked for a while after lights were out, and then some of us went out to the bathroom, and then ended up wanting to just hang out. Except the people in our cabin didn't want a whole bunch of people in our cabin. So we ended up wandering around for a little while, got invited into a different cabin and immediately kicked out, and then invited back in, and then we headed back to our cabin. We had the most random conversations about squirrels and bagels, and throwing peanut butter chocolate chips at Leslie, and demonstrating different ways to express yourself by sighing. Tamara's laugh was so hilarious.

We woke up this morning by having our door swing open and Mr. Elephant Man playing his trumpet at full blast. We packed up all of our stuff. Rehearsal went by really fast. There was an awesome tree that was curved weird so it was like a seat, and I sat in it and got a lot of sap on my hands. Jocelyne sat in it in half the time, but she has longer legs than me. I mooched just by looking at Skye, and I got a pop in return. I asked James how he gets his hair so luscious (Loreal Paris Men's stuff, leaving conditioner in for a minute). Before we left, Mr. Elephant Man recited a poem he created which had a whole lot of inside jokes. Like the fact that Jocelyne and I call him Mr. Elephant (it was so, so gross). On the bus ride home, a whole bunch of people, including Jocelyne, belted out songs for the entire ride. One third of the bus together sang songs from Rent. Leslie and I talked. I took over 200 pictures and won the contest.

The New Pornographers is tonight!

the bells ring no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no

I am so, so stressed right now. Stressed since lunch. Jocelyne wasn't at school today, so spare was very lonely. I walked to the bank, and then got help on my essay. Which, by the way, has been moved until Monday because my social studies teacher is so so nice! Band was extremely boring, and I was just so tired. Also, I am joining wind ensemble. Good bye, spare time.

I am leaving for band camp tomorrow, and I haven't packed yet. I've spent my entire night either studying for the social studies test I have to write before school starts, and doing as much of the bio lab I have to finish by the end of tomorrow, because I apparently have to hand the lab in before I leave, even though the actual due date is Friday.

This is going to be the most stressful days away from school I will ever have. Until next week.

the timing was right, the pleasure was mine

I am sitting here, chewing on a pen, just being content. It's my sister's birthday, and it made my heart feel pretty good seeing how happy she was with her presents. I think we were supposed to do something today, but we haven't. Everybody has just been hanging around the house. We're having our turkey today. And cake after.

I almost can't wait for tomorrow to come, so I can give people some stuff I've worked on over the weekend. The past three days have felt really, really long. Like saran wrap covering a bowl of leftovers that you left over because you didn't really want to eat it, because you didn't like it. I've stopped feeling lonely these days, it feels good.

listening to: superconnected - broken social scene

she has not been able to sleep since the days of trudeau

On Wednesday, it would have been the ninth month my sister and I would be going without junk food. It has been a long time since we could eat ice cream or sour soothers without being guilty. But that's all over. Yes, today at 6:50 pm, we decided to truce and be allowed to eat junk food from now until eternity.

It feels weird to not have to say "no" anymore. Today, we went out for dinner for my sister's birthday, and my sister and I ordered pop. After our meal, we had a chocolate avalanche (which, by the way, was gloriously sweet).

I am so very glad we're not on this bet anymore. Plus, technically, I'm the true winner. TRUE WINNER!

the man who could make you sure he was the one

There are too many things going on right now, I just want to stop and do what I want, but everything I want to do is supposed to be at the bottom of my priorities. I don't want to write a paper explaining why or why not the French Revolution was a success, or label a diagram using a textbook with the wrong descriptions. I don't really want to go golfing tomorrow.

I want to write notes back to people. I want to make CDs. I need to buy my sister a birthday present.

My mom and my sister are playing Wii Bowling.

listening to: one year a.d. - feist

i'm wide awake, it's morning

I went to Crescent Heights today with Heather, to visit my old friends. I talked to them for a minute tops, and then they left. Just like they always do.

And I realized that I am so, so much happier at Aberhart and no matter how beautiful Crescent Heights is, I made the right choice not transferring. I prefer the trips downtown with Heather (which, by the way, are always amazing) than the trips for bubble tea. I like talking about music way more than talking about, well, nothing. I like writing and receiving notes, and not worrying about everything I say.

I don't think I'm going to go back to visit anymore. It is too much effort, and it seems like I'm the only one who cares.

listening to: liquid + light - chad vangaalen

it's impossible to tell how important someone was

CJSW is having a pledge drive, and YOU should pledge! On behalf of my sister's show! There are so many incentives, but the main reason you should pledge is for the satisfaction of knowing that you, yes you, helped the radio station!

$25 dollars gets you a Friends card. $60 means a Friends card and a t-shirt. Pledging $110? That equals 2 Friends cards, a t-shirt, and a tote bag OR mug. $150 earns you 2 Friends cards, a t-shirt, a Live CD, and a tote bag OR mug. If you're pledging $200, you get a choice of: 2 Friends cards, a t-shirt, and a hoodie, OR 2 Friends cards, 2 t-shirts, and a "choice of two" of a CD, tote bag, and a mug. $250 will get you 2 Friends cards, a t-shirt, a hoodie, and a "choice of 2" of a CD, tote bag, and a mug. And finally, pledging a awesome $300 will earn you 2 Friends cards, 2 t-shirts, and 2 hoodies.

Even if you pledge small, you still get a pair of CJSW earplugs! And if you pledge over $60, you will get a CJSW keychain featuring artwork by Chad VanGaalen! In fact, the t-shirts feature artwork by Chad VanGaalen too! HOW AWESOME IS THAT?!

So do it! And do it on Beet Farm.

listening to: the park - feist

we couldn't laugh, we couldn't sing

What an amazing band class today! We set up so all of the chairs were in a rectangle, so everybody was sitting beside each other. It was Haley's birthday today, but she really seemed like she expected people to make a huge deal out of it, which was dumb in my opinion. The student teacher tried to have us play "happy birthday" during our warm up, and suddenly she was like, "I can play it on the piano, I memorized it." OH REALLY? I was under the impression that it was the hardest piece to play ever on the piano. She didn't even play it that well. And then when she had to sing to herself (which she gladly did), she sang it off-key. I thought that if you have to tune your instrument every day, you'd be able to sing the right key? Anyways.

We played the song that I play the triangle in, and that got me really excited. I sat beside Mikki and kept having to ask her what measure we were at. Every time she played this certain part, I'd high five her for making it through the whole thing. After, we had to move around so that you were sitting beside someone who didn't have the same instrument as you, so all of my friends and I sat together. Jocelyne dissed my triangle. I yelled about "the circle of safety".

Jocelyne and I went around after and made nicknames for people. Most people's nicknames are just their last names. Leslie is "Fraser". Tamara is "McQueen". Cailey is "Stubbs" (girl version?). Mikalina is "Carss." Keith is "Mister Rogers" (but he doesn't know it). Rebekah is "Green Lantern".

After class ended, Mr. Paddock called me back in a very menacing way. I thought he was going to hit me.

He looked me straight in the eye and said, "Have a good afternoon."