Recap

Argh, so yes, shopping trip was not great, not terrible but rather similar to what I expected.
We basically ended up splitting up as there were five of us, which was two, two and a tagalong (moi) which was grand. Them = peering into mucho expensive stores (most of which I have never heard of before and were the kind that have security guards at the door, yeah, not what I usually inhabit) and purchasing things at semi expensive but rather fashionable stores. Me = traumatized by brand nameness and price tags and generally not horribly interested at all in much that was there (I did get to go into this one card type shop that was interesting and this bodyschlep place that had this tasty mint lip stuff/breath freshener that I liked but was expensive so didnt get, just used sample hehe)

Some choice moments:
-'ugh, lets go somewhere else, this is all the crappy cheap places (ie. Sears etc.)'
-Hermit spying a lovely fuzzy sweater, price tag=$1, 070.00-Hermit vamoosing out of there topspeed
-'FUR! I love fur, ohhh, soooo nice *touching*'
-After one such fur episode, Hermit looking at tag= 100% mini rex rabbit fur (this actually made me quite upset, twas spiff, but really thats MY bunnies relatives, argh! I am rather peeved about that actually *gets uneccesarily emotional*)
So yes, on the way back though we played games which was fun although every once in a while I said something that was evidently not quite 'right' but mrph.


Needless to say, I am quite excited about the prospect of being home and around folks who are a LOT more like me. I think one of my big problems though, is that I dont feel the need to make new friends because the ones I have are GREAT (see comments of previous post for good example) erg, but not seeing them hardly ever is crud.

Anyhow, a glorious thing has been found in my vicinity:

Meet the Peppermint Bark Ghirardelli bar:

As you are probably aware, despite my attempts, it didnt last long...

The song was Silver Bells, I rather like that song! Now for one that I quite agree with the sentiment of at the moment:

Daaaaa dadaaaa dadadaaaa daaaa dadaaaa dadaaaaa

Holiday linkage: The history of the advent calendar. http://www.sellmer-verlag.de/history.htm

And random thing that I learned today that I think is swell: The saying 'mind your P's and Q's came from Old England. When patrons got rowdy, the bartenders would tell them to watch their pints and quarts.

Hermit