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Monday, January 01, 2007
I went to the HellMall today. I've managed to avoid it for months, but I was staring down the barrel of going back to work with no clothes that fit me, so off to the mall I went, with Ryan to provide comic relief and someone to listen to me complain.
HellMall is the biggest mall in silicon valley, two stories of mostly high-end stores. If you want an $80 baby outfit, it's the place to go. Which may explain why I don't go there very often. But, like I said, the baby boobs aren't fitting into the old shirts, and it seemed like the place with the most concentrated supply of possible replacements.
I hate shopping for clothes. Did I mention that?
The good news is I found three sweaters and a pair of pants that aren't all that stupid-looking, and got them all on sale. The sort-of bad news is that I got them at Forth & Towne, the new Gap brand. The new Gap brand for women over 35. Which, sure, I'm 36 and fat, and stuff at the regular Gap looks like ass on me (don't even get me started on Old Navy...), but still. Arrrgh. I will never be cool.
I wanted to go to jjill (as long as I'm embracing my mom-shaped demographic) because I liked a sweater on their website, but they only had it in size tiny, and I didn't stick around to browse because the muzak was horrible. Some chick was doing a really, really sincere cover of a Sting song, which meant that the overall sincerity concentration was reaching levels unsafe for humans. Ryan was over at Lucky trying on and rejecting some $118 jeans so I had no one to snark on that with. But it was really, really bad. Also, I was the only customer in the store and I always feel weird about that, like I've made a commitment I don't intend to live up to. You know I'll only leave you, right? Like I said, I don't go to the mall much.
Lunch was at the food court, of course. The tables there have ad spaces built in. This means it's someone's job to go around and change all the ads to shill for whatever new movie is coming out. There are also plasma screens up above the crowd showing ads, so I had to make my usual lame A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies joke. I am nothing if not predictible.
Isaac was home with his daddy, pouring on the cute. He was so excited about his playmat, he could not be contained by any camera.
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