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oh no...the noise. it's starting auhgkjlkg
RIP my sleep

september 7th
I barely hear fireworks
no one's that patriotic here

It's after ten pm and they're still going and have been going like ALL DAY!

STOP WITH THE TREASON, PEASANTS!

11pm.... still going....

over and out Dx

1am....still going.
I am gonna need way more than just 1 latte in the morning to be of any use at work if they don't stop soon so I can sleep. *has to be up in approx. 5.5 hours*

100 degrees? That's cute.

You can keep all your hot. I dislike!

Happy 'Murica day and such, though I only say that because it seems to be an all out thing over there.

Canada day was three days ago, and there were fireworks in that I saw them on the news and remembered they were going on. Nothing in the neighbourhood though. I was visiting my mom in the city. Back home the area has a tiny parade with horses and farm things and people dress up and such, one of those county things.

I honestly don't know what "Canada Day" actually celebrates, apart from the age of the country (151 this year). I think we weren't an independent country until post WWI, which was more than 151 years ago, so maybe it's when there stopped being an "upper" and "lower" Canada.

Give me a moment to look this up...

Okay, this: "it celebrates the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, the effective date of the Constitution Act, 1867 (then called the British North America Act, 1867), which united the three separate colonies of the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick into a single Dominion within the British Empire called Canada."

So not technically a "birthday" but one of those good-enough things. Apparently we weren't technically a fully independent county until 1982. By then, it was probably one of those things that people just never get around to doing because it's more a formality than anything.

Just another 3-5 days of people lighting off spare fireworks and we're done! *dies*
I mean, hopefully not, but based on past years, that's what I expect.

Yeah, they finally stopped at 12am last night or so, will probably hear leftovers tonight. x_x

i wish it hadn't been so hot out yesterday. i don't know how anyone went out to celebrate in this heat.

people started celebrating here a couple days early, even though they weren't legally allowed to until 11 AM on the 4th, but it started raining around 11PM yesterday, so nobody was out shooing them off after that. I haven't heard any go off today, thankfully.

in Illinois it's pretty much illegal to buy any fireworks, so we just drive to Indiana to get them. americans will blow stuff up whether it's legal or not!

...It annoys me how inconsiderate people can be of pets and vets.

Edited because now that I've said that, I've realized I probably shouldn't.

Please don't be idiots on holidays, that is all.

Okay, what did we do on Independence Day? Um, I think we cooked hamburgers indoors and watched fireworks on TV. Well, that's where the air conditioning is! Also, keeping seven Chiweenies and an elderly Jack Russell calm during the distant fireworks show.