like a kid in a candy store

i'm going to take time now to point out that i am extremly childish.
my mom watched my cousin, who is almost 2, today, and wanted to take him to the store. he really loves clifford, so she wanted to find him a clifford stuffed animal. this involved scouring the toy department. and the sad thing is, the kid didn't seem to find much interesting. however, my mom and i did.
i wanted to get a penguin that had bouncy balls in his stomach; a super deluxe batman cape (it had freaking wings!); a batman mask; a spiderman lamp; a walle lamp; a walle pillow; one of those things that have a little dome on wheels then a long handle, and the dome has balls in it that when you push it they pop like nuts; a stuffed kung fu panda that was like 3 feet tall; water guns; a stuffed master sishu (am i spelling that right? from kung fu panda); this car thing that was rubbery and hollow, so when you pressed on the top it caved in; sanrio stuffed animals; a scooter (pink, of course); a mini car thing; an elmo sprinkler system; and a tickle me cookie monster.
yeah.

i bought new stuff for school, like pens and giant notebooks and stuff, and went to put them in my backpack. i decided to use the one from last year, rather than getting a new one, because my old one has incredibly handy pockets and is cool and i love it. but this posed the problem that i actually had to clean out this backpack. it took me forever, because i would stop every 2 seconds because i found something funny. i found a lot of notes that discussed things that had seemed so huge at the time, but now, are nothing at all. and i found a college planning guide. um, scary. i don't want to think about that. but, thing is, i have to. i've got tests soon and things to look over and i need to start looking at scholarships i could get. i've been decided on journalism as my major for a while now, but that's such a competive business. that scares me! college seems so far off, but really, it isn't. it's lurking around the corner, and it's going to jump out at me very soon.