I miss Malls, we had a small mall, that only had small halls. lolHappy Saturday everyone.
Big day today.... I'm off to the big mall today for some early shopping.
Christmas is the ONLY time I buy presents for my daughter.... and oh... her birthday too... but that all goes out in the same parcel because her birthday is in early January.
It's a big thing for me to get a nice package organized and actually mailed out... so I have to start early... as in right now... due to the fact that my daughter now lives in another province.
I like to send by the first week in December so that it arrives on time. This will be my second year of buying a large flat rate box with pre-paid postage. Takes all the guess work out of sending stuff. As long as the parcel isn't over 11 pounds... they will ship whatever you fill it with.
Anyways... as I mentioned earlier... I already got a few things... .including matching sweaters for her three dogs. Like seriously.... small... medium and large.... DONE!!!!! HAHAHA.
So... We'll see how long I last at the mall.... I don't usually fare out too well.... Usually in an out within half hour.... but today I have places to go other than the Walmart.
Hope everyone has a wonderful day. I am going to try and enjoy myself. The mall is NOT my favourite place to be.... but I am going early enough... I'll at least avoid the crowds.
Most of the Mall have closed . I remember I think it was Sanjose that had a triple story mall. Not sure its still there.
The mall in SunnyVale at 16 I got a Job helping build some of the stores as a laborer, they basically tore down all of downtown it used to be such a pretty place with little shops dating back to the 1930-40's all leveled. Our Mall here was turned into a shopping center. Which I actually do not like. As it rains here all 6 months out of the years usually and the mall was a break from weather. Now all the stores face outside.
I went to Walmart last week, and was surprised they were marking down all their food prices by as much as 50% from previous weeks and was close to Pre-covid .
Halloween. My Granddaughter dressed up as scary clown. Which she loved as you can just cut loose if you are a scary clown.
She had a blast, we walk all over the neighborhoods was raining, but there was more ppl then I have ever seen.
I think the economy being really bad, got ppl out to have some free fun. I will admit I did enjoy it. It created some nice memories to
help replace the bad old ones. I think my Granddaughter has ADHD and maybe autism like my son has. She is more extroverted though
and he was like that until about 10 and the became more quiet and shy's away from people.
But she is such a blessing to out family.
Great thing about having our boys is when they were little you can swing, go on play ground and not look crazy.
Great Thing about having our Granddaughter, is the same, you get to act silly and act a little nuts with her and not look crazy.
I don't think I will live long enough to have a Great Grandchild. But maybe I will. I only knew my Great grandmother on my moms side for 2 years and do not remember her much. She lived to be 98 years old. Back when that was unheard of. Most people on my Moms side live way into their 80's. Mom will be 86 in February.
Oh well I did have fun on Halloween. Left a box of Candy at our door with a sign to take one.
I expected the box to be gone when I came back LOL. To my surprise people just took one. We were curious and
looked at the security cameras and people came, but was still there. Made me feel good that ppl knew we were not home and took one.
I like to think the security cameras played no part. Maybe they did. But I prefer to think kind hearts did the right thing.
But then I ended up with half a box of candy LOL. So took it to my wives work, which is now mine I guess as well and the box was near empty by the time we left lol.
Volunteered there over 20 years and now they are paying me, weird. But I will post about that later sometime.
Have a great weekend everyone.
