Manic Monday

I'm exhausted. Seriously! The first annual shop 'til you drop marathon. We began with the pick-up at 8:45 a.m. on Saturday morning. And everyone mark it down - I was ready! I had my holiday lights headband on and was dressed in layers ready for the crazy mall temps. The best way to Christmas shop- drunk! Hilarious!!! We stopped for lunch after hitting the pet store, Best Buy, and like 4 stores in the mall. Two cosmos later and E was a happy camper. Woo hoo! After we were filled to the gills we continued on in our quests for great bargains and happy holidays. The word of the day was Yo! As in, I'm gonna go look over here Yo! Or, Yo!, what do you think of this perfume, Yo! The goal was to see how many times you could slip it into the conversation without M freaking out and hitting us! She is sooo violent. :)

Ok, on to more shopping. I had planned on buying my mom a 2006, Mr. Bingle doll. But, to my surprise, they had an entire set of them - 7 in all! M thinks they look like bats. She just doesn't know. Mr. Bingle has been a serious staple in my house since I can remember. We used to have a store in Memphis called Lowenstein's. It was in Poplar Plaza where Spin Street is now located. In the big window where Elvis now hangs- Mr. Bingle once reigned. It was Christmas when Mr. Bingle came to the big window- you knew Santa was around the corner! So now my momma is the proud owner of 8 new Mr. Bingles (1998-2004 and 2006). The woman at Dillards - they now own the Mr. Bingle rights, said she didn't think they had a 2005 doll. If anyone knows they did- let me know. I am now on a mission! She has an oldie but goodie like the one in the add above. He has been well-loved and has seen better days, but he is very important at our house!

So after all the shopping- I believe the last purchase was around 9:30 p.m. @ Macy's. The purchase, a brand new pretty for E! It will be her birthday after all (in less than a week).
After the last climb up the mall steps to the parking garage, it was decided, that I would go along for the sushi dinner. Sushi- yes me. I have had sushi before with Kram and others always ordering and saying, "you should try this. It's cooked." This time, I took the initiative and read the menu and ordered for myself. Officially, I am a convert. It is actually good! I only tried the cooked stuff, but honestly, it was really filling and yummy tasting. I love the California roll and some sort of roll that has avocado, salmon and cream cheese! Who would've thunk it!

Needless to say when I got home at 11:15 p.m., I got directly in bed and took a handful of Advil.