Today was a great day, making it officially a great weekend!! Thursday bowling with the kids, Friday wrapping gifts then dinner with the kids, Saturday lunch with a couple of friends and then GAME NIGHT with the kids again!! (that was the highlight of the YEAR!), and then today a friend of mine made lunch for me (his cooking wasn't half bad). When I went to bed last night my plans were to meet some of my students at a sports bar to watch football, but I got a call at 9am to help a friend of mine take her brother's visiting family to the outlet mall and then at 11am to go over to Don's so he could fix me lunch. We had some soup and baked check, then went over to the sports bar, then I let him stay at my place while I went with another friend to help her take her family and her brother's family to the Gilroy Outlet Mall. I don't like to go shopping on normal days, this is the day after Christmas, EVERYONE was shopping. I didn't do shopping today, I was people watching. It was fun. I was trying to herd everyone together, and make sure no one got lost, and in the mean time I saw some really interesting things! Someone tell me why they were standing in line for 2 hours to get INTO the Coach Store. Then once they got in their and found something to buy (why do the most expensive stores have the least amount of merchandise on the floor?) there was another line, that took at least an hour, so they could buy something. Ok, I couldn't hold my laughter! Poor guys ... you know the men wouldn't wait for that unless the woman TOLD them they would! There was a line of about 50 people just to get something at Starbucks. There were lines in every store, not to get into other stores. I talked to some of the sales people, as I was waiting for the people I wasThe with to wait in line! The sales people were cranky and tired and exhausted. Then there were lines for the bathroom, those are the worse. When I cornered the group in one store, everyone was standing in a line I went to one of my favorite stores, a kitchen gadget store. I love looking at the weird stuff they dream up to sell. Today I saw the most useless "gadget" I could imagine. I think they called it the "cake tester". You know how when you cook a cake you take a toothpick and poke it into the cake to see if it is cooked throughout? Well, this gadget was a stainless steel "toothpick" that you buy so you can stick it in a cake to see if it is done. Is that as useless as I think? Now I know why my mom needed 3 drawers for kitchen gadgets!! Can anyone tell me why some women wear skin tight pants and 6inch heels to walk around the outlet mall? And, where do some of these women get these shoes that are plaid, and why would they wear them? What about that man that was carrying his wife's umbrella for her while she was carrying the bags, but the umbrella wasn't over either one of them, it was over the bags between them? The best thing about going shopping is people watching, but then again I realize they are people watching me also!!
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