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Tuesday, December 19, 2006
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Monday's Meandering Mindlessness
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Today was fun.
Once I got past the laundry.
I finished James's sweater that I've been knitting since April. (First attempt.) It came out okay, but I think the neck should've been bigger so he could get his head through more easily.
Then Manda called and invited me to go shopping with her. I didn't have anything to get, but I went along cause I haven't spent any time with Manda in almost a month. Needed to catch up on life, KWIM?
The plan was to go to Mullica Hill to a shop there, but the shop that Manda wanted to go to isn't open on Sundays. :( Bummer, but not a complete loss. Since we were in the area, she took me to a pizzeria two doors down from where her family used to live. I met these two guys that work there, whom I have heard about from Derek and Manda many times, and who they have known all their lives. They were nice guys, pretty friendly and easy to talk to considering I'd never met them before. They gave us a free pizza (nice of them, no?) and sat talking while we ate it. Then Manda took me for a walk down the street to see the house she used to live in.
What an adorable place! I could easily picture Manda and Derek as little kids of, like, five and two years old, running around the yard and having fun. Manda pointed out the window that used to be her bedroom and showed me the school next door that she used to play near.
Different things she would say would strike me as filled with memories--"That hedge has always been there." "We used to get into so much trouble." "This place has really shrunk!" Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to have known someone all your life, ya know? like from the time you were born. I think I'd like to go back to Virginia and see the house we lived in there. I don't think I could find it. I was only six when we moved here. I wonder how much our old place has shrunk since I've seen it? I wonder how short our street is now? It's rather long in my memory. As a six-year-old, it took a while to run from one end to the other.
Pulling myself out of a rather pleasantly sentimental digression . . .
Danielle had told us to remember something at Marshall's. Now what was it? (No, actually I do remember.) So we headed that way next. Then to the Ulta makeup store, that I never knew existed until now. And then to Target, where we didn't buy anything. And then, to the mall. Gadzooks is so my new favorite store. Okay, I wouldn't wear everything they sell. Probably most of it I wouldn't, but there are some things hidden in there that are really cool and really good prices. Definitely a place to check out regularly.
And then it was 4:35, so we only had a half-hour to speed home and pick up Derek from work. Can you believe we made it? Neither can I. One half hour and we were sitting in the parking lot, spying the red shirt (with white lettering) through the front window.
So here I am at my pc, recounting the days events for you to peruse. And I can't believe it was so interesting to you that you sat there this whole time reading it. I'm telling you, this is why I don't blog very often. You've got to have something interesting to say if you expect people to sit there through the whole narrative. But then again, there are those, like you, who will sit through it no matter what I say. Gotta love friends like that. :) |
posted by cori
12/19/2006 03:33:00 PM
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