So technically not this week but last week, I got to see the aurora borealis outside -- like right outside my house. Um, like in my driveway, sitting on the concrete freezing. Cuz that's just kinda how this works, you know? Um, I, um, I got to see the aurora borealis and that was, like, that was pretty awesome. I, I didn't get to see it next -- um, last time. I didn't get to the main one, the main one that like a bunch of people saw. Which I suppose if I was able to see, um -- well, I don't know because I didn't -- we didn't have enough light where I was and then the next day I went to see it but I couldn't see it from, you know, where I was and then people who the other night had driven up to the middle of nowhere saw it. It was kind of a -- it was a letdown the next day. It was also cloudy too, which pretty much happened this time too. Oh! So I was grateful I got to see it and had some really, really nice photos of it.

So I took my very first paycheck and I walked -- I took my little sister to walk with me to our credit union. So, we went in -- I took my little sister in, I went in and deposited the $13.75. We stepped out of the bank, and adjacent to the bank on the other side of the dri- driveway into the shopping center, was Kenny's Drive In. That's the whole corner of that shopping center. And the french fry -- the smell of the french fries was wafting through the air. It was so strong we smelt it all the way at the bank. I looked at my little sister. She's five years younger than me. I was thirteen, so she was eight years old. And she, she just looked up at me and I know she loves french fries. So we were -- I was holding her hand 'cause you know, she's little and she walked with me to the bank. So I took her back in -- I immediately -- I just right away took her back into the bank. I withdrew 75 cents. And I walked her over to Kenny's Drive In and bought her her french fries. So that's how I spent my first paycheck buying my little sister french fries.

So, my mom and I were at an estate sale and -- I was older, but for some reason, I remember feeling a little sullen. I guess when I think about being sullen, I think about myself as a teenager, but I was much older. I think I was just really tired and it was super picked over, so I didn't really wanna be there. But I was half-heartedly looking around and also on my phone and not paying a ton of attention, but I found this box that had a couple of Beanie Babies in it and I was bored. So I googled the Beanie Babies and it showed that if the tag had this specific misprint that they could be really expensive or worth a lotta money. So I looked and it had the misprint and I'm continuing to go down the rabbit hole to see how much they might sell for. And some of them are listed on eBay for like 7,000 dollars. There was one that was listed for 30,000 dollars. So I was like sweating all of a sudden.  So I grabbed the Beanie Babies and they had written the price on the back of the tag -- which, barbarians. I don't know what they were thinking. But right away, I was like even if this was the very specific valuable thing that probably would ruin it but I'll just get these. And I got really squirrely so I was like, "Mom, we gotta, we gotta get out of here." And she was like, "Okay. Like what -- I don't -- what do you --?" And I was acting like I'd stolen something and so I grab the Beanie Babies and I go pay and I think they were maybe two dollars to begin with and then they were half off. So I spent two dollars total and I'm thinking, this might be my retirement or, you know, a really nice vacation. And as you can imagine there's really not a market anymore for Beanie Babies. So, I'm trying to remember now. I think I did post one of them. There's two that I had googled, one that was like consistently selling at really a high price. The other one was quite expensive, but it was selling more along lines of like 800 dollars, which is still a lotta money. But I think I posted…