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It's finally happening. Easter candy season is upon us.

I'm going to go buy Mini Eggs and hoard them like a weirdo now.

Spring is a really busy time at the Ranch. Not only do we grow a lot of the crops that are used to feed the kids here, but we've also got baby livestock everywhere and now we've even got a baby Eopie to play with.

Remission came right on time, when you think about it. I've had about a month to recover some strength and some weight and I feel like I'm really ready to handle all of this. I just wish I could shake these feelings of foreboding I keep having.

If anybody's curious, the half-inch of hair that's grown back is coming in a sort of mahogany brown instead of black. There's auburn highlights when the sun hits it certain ways.

Can't the dreams just take a hiatus while I'm trying to study for midterms and stuff? No? Yeah, thought so.

So, Annabeth, Grover and I started on our quest to Los Angeles and were driven into town by the camp's sentry who was this big guy with tons of eyes covering his body. Then we got on a bus and were attacked by the furies again, one of them being Mrs. Dodds that I killed earlier. Apparently monsters reform after a while. So we escape and wind up at this place called, Aunty Em's Garden Gnome Emporium where we get some food, which was good, but then the not good part happened. Aunty Em was really Medusa and tried to turn us into stone. I ended up cutting off her head; yeah, tell me that wouldn't be traumatic for a twelve year old. We found a lost dog after that and returned it, getting enough money to buy train tickets. We got off in St. Louis at the Arch and I rode to the top where this middle ages woman turns into an Echidna and her yappy dog turns into a Chimera. In order to escape, I jump out of the arch through a hole that blown into it and landed in the Mississippi river, finding out in the dreams that I can breath underwater.

I already found out here that I can breath underwater and it's kind of interesting that I found out here before finding out in the dreams. Isn't it usually the other way around?

So, my dreams ended there and when I woke up, there were a pair of high top chucks at the end of my bed. Now these aren't just ordinary sneakers. Luke gave them to me before we left on the quest and they're flying sneakers. How cool is that? I haven't tried them yet cause I haven't had time, I'm actually gonna be late for class if I don't end this now, but how cool is that?

At least I understand why I made the choice I did that cost me my memory, if my dream self makes any sense.

I didn't realize Lent had arrived so quickly. In my plan to give up smoking, I discovered today that I still had around two-thirds of a pack left. I couldn't bring myself to throw them away, but I couldn't do with the temptation around, so I spent most of the day chain smoking.

Now I'm sitting outside in my garden, hoping my lungs might forgive me. Might even take a walk.

But! To keep myself on course, every time I think about buying a new pack, I'm going to put that money aside. Then afterwards, I'll either buy myself a carton or go out on the town. Likely both.