I must express my gratitude for both Monday night's snow, and Monday Night Football. I became temporarily insane on Monday night and decided to go to the Mall. It was a little freaky, actually, almost like that scene in
12 Monkeys where Bruce Willis comes up out of the manhole cover in front of City Hall and everythings covered in snow and there are no people at all? It was like that, sort of, only in a large retail space during the height of Christmas Shopping season ... I knew that something was
not quite right when I had no trouble getting a parking space right near the door of one of the anchor stores. I wandered around the mall for a couple of hours, gawking at the lack of people, and ended up buying a Starbucks Cafe Mocha (shopping is very hard work and you need to keep your energy up), a couple of bathmats (mine needed replacing) and a Dollar Store Dreidel (the boss though t the holiday decorations at work were not multicultural enough. I still need to find a dirt cheap Kwanzalabra and perhaps a Menorah). I also picked up a couple of very nice sweatshirts with wintery scenes involving cardinals on them. I did get one
actual Christmas gift for my Mom, who announced that she was in need of a
nightlight.