dollar store hermit crabs

Date: 6/9/2024

the dollar store was selling a bunch of apples but they still had branches sticking up from them. i wondered if they just had an apple tree that they grew and got them from. then i found a tiny hermit crab and it had a cork shell. i told the staff about it and they were like oh it’s probably from the pet store! i didn’t want to pick it up though bc i’m nervous about them pinching me. then i found 2 more, then i found one with red crystal eyes and it was kinda hidden on top of a rock i think. i was about to take a picture of it and my mom didn’t see it knocked it off to get to the thing it was on. i got so mad and i think i screamed a couple times bc how could she not see what she was knocked off?!?!? the poor hermit crab was on the ground and it was ok but it had fallen out of its shell. my mom decided to go to bed eventually and i was still trying get the hermit crab back in its shell but i was too nervous about picking it up. i woke my mom up at 5am and asked her to please put it back in before the cat got to it or i had to go to school. i don’t remember much here but we eventually got it back in its shell and decided to keep it. it was hard to get it to go back in though as it was a bit big for the shell. at some point i then went to school, but to a class that was more of a club hangout thing. i was really just there with katie though and wasn’t normally a part of it. i think it was a theater club. it was supposed to be for the first part of school, but we stayed there the whole day. katie and maddy were basically flaunting how they were best friends and kept talking about theater. at first maddy was talking from a box. she didn’t talk to me much though and katie pretty much ignored me too. i walked around alone and started talking to this one guy who was actually listening to me and i told him about the hermit crabs i had found at the dollar store. then i walked up to this other guy who apparently had been in my class one year, but we couldn’t figure out what year. we thought it was 4th grade, but then we figured out we had different teachers but had known each other. he kinda reminded me of gage mixed with someone else and his teeth were kinda jumbly. i started raising the hermit crabs at home although they looked more like octopi. i was trying to stop one eating all the fish but i got stung. it hurt a lot but went away after a few minutes. also this one was shaped more like a flexible rectangle. we were cleaning up a bunch of legos that everyone was apparently playing with and i was trying to make sure my hermit crabs were safe. i eventually saved them all. i was raising more by putting a peanut butter sandwich cookie in the big shell and then it would hatch into 2 parts, one white on top and one not, then into a star, then into the hermit crab and would have to then find a shell. i poured a bunch of shells i had found into the tank for them to try on. someone starting blowing into the second half of one of the newly hatched ones in the first stage and i had to stop them bc yk wtf that is a living creature. i had to put some in a bowl of water for a bit although idk why. then a dude was taking a picture of something in the dining room although it was suddenly the old days and the camera was a new invention so it was a big thing for him to be there. then he started film in and everyone was supposed to be quiet, but my one of my hermit crab octopi was escaping the bowl. i tried to grab it with a paper towel but it kept sticking. the camera guy got mad at me for making noise.