i love shopping.

you have no idea, right now shopping during the week leading up to christmas in california is my favorite thing of all time, right up there with people who don't use blinkers at stop signs or when they cut you off. so yesterday i went christmas shopping. i know i wasn't any more derelict about it this year than i have been in years past, but it seems as though i was based on my experience last night.

i guess the big factor is that i won't be home at all before christmas, usually i was able to have the weekend before christmas to do my shopping and it got done without incidient. having spent twenty years in dallas, i knew what places to avoid when in order to evade the throngs of wall to wall people that seem to infest local retailers about this very time every year. having lived in southern california just over a year, i don't have that familiarity, and even if i did, traffic would be plenty mitigating to an effort to make it to a place like that if it was far enough out, which was never the case in dallas, because traffic could never dream of being as horrific as it is out here, and even if it was, i knew all the shortcuts there anyway.

i go back for more today.

feeling: puffy eyes
thinking of: why that kid couldn't fall asleep
music: "cristalena" MxPx