Well… Friday was long. I woke around seven thirty, ate a quick breakfast while my mom dropped my dad off to work and waited on her a bit for when we were to leave. We got out of the house around eight fifteen, stopped by the bank and then headed out. We talked some, but I cannot really remember what about since I was feeling under the weather.
I was also a bit tired since I received four hours of sleep the night before certainly, but had woken up around one and couldn’t sleep. I drifted into a slight doze here and there, but that was it. Sleep didn’t occur in the car though. The trip was smooth and we got into the city around ten forty or so.
We entered, stopped for a while and my mom saw some pants she liked. She decided to get them but the cashiers were all elsewhere except this one woman who was dealing with a customer. Mom lost all time and needed to go to her appointment so I told her I’d pay for the pants while she went on ahead. I waited there for maybe ten minutes at most. Why? I had an hour until my haircut appointment. I thought it was a good time to practice my patience as well.
So… that lady in front of me seemed to talk to herself while the cashier was busy fulfilling her requests. In truth I thought the cashier was either slow at her work or she had a lot of clothes to handle. In the end I found out the lady in front of me had one of those headset phones and her hair was pretty much camouflaging it. As for the sales woman, her customer was very specific about the clothes she was buying and needed things to be done just so and whatnot. T’was fine.
What I thought would be at the average of twenty four bucks turned out to be twelve instead. My mom said it was marked off and thus twenty-three something. Apparently there was a second mark off for the item. Heh. So, I tell the cashier goodbye and make my way up to the hair salon. In all irony my mom was waiting on a bench. The lady who dyes her hair was running late. I told her about the sale and said in this case it would be pay back for the meal she’d by me since she always buys us a late lunch afterwards.
Well, we wait, my mom works on a crossword puzzle as I watch. Then she is called in and I follow. As she gets her hair done I work on the crossword myself and eventually the woman who cuts my hair came in. I got up, walked over to her, spoke to her and remembered her birthday was today from the last December I saw her. I left to get my hair washed and then she got to work.
When done, I paid my fee and asked for ten bucks cash back. i usually give her a five dollar tip, but like her last birthday I gave her a ten. I then left the salon and went to the only two shops in the mall I ever really look into.
I stopped by Earth Bound. I got myself a sun catcher and saw photos and paintings on canvas. The first to catch my eye was a flower. It made me think of my sister. Now, I really don’t think she deserves anything this year with what a pain she was to my father, but she is my sister so I decided I’d get her something no more than ten bucks. I thought of just getting her a bunch of fruit candy that she likes since she has a sweet tooth, but seeing the pictures I wondered.
I looked at them all. There were black and white ones of cities, towns and such. They reminded me of a poster she had in black and white of a couple. I also saw one that dealt with New York.
Therefore, three things… I couldn’t really decide so I talked to a worker there. I told her the three things that came to mind. The flower caught my eye because my sister painted them, but I crossed that out since if I did that I might as well get her a blank canvas so she can paint one of it herself. The black and white ones were decided and then I asked her about what ones she thought were nicest. I showed her one hidden in the corner and she noticed one elsewhere. In the end it was down to those two. The one I found semi-hidden was the winner. It was only twelve-something, so I bought it and rambled about how I really didn’t think my sister deserved it. Heh. Still she is my sister and I guess I should get her something… If she doesn’t like it though, I’m not having it returned. Bah.
I left then, thanked the girl for her help and headed back to the salon to show Mom and leave it in her care. Mom liked it and I still thought it was too nice a thing for my sister, but oh well. I then headed out again. I didn’t expect to find anything in the second store I was going to, but it never hurt to browse. It killed time anyway.
When I was done with that I headed back, got the two accumulated bags and took them to the car. Upon my return my mom’s dye job was done and she was waiting for her stylist to finish up on a customer. I took my bag then and waited outside the salon. Sitting on a bench, I took a book out and read until my mom appeared and asked me if I needed to buy anything. I said no. She paid for her dying and haircut, hair supplies and a fifty dollar gift card to the salon for my sister. We then headed back downstairs.
Mom had a few things she wanted to get before we left the mall. She looked for some shirts to go with her new pants and this time didn’t have to wait long to buy them. After that she headed to the makeup counter, got some cosmetics and then saw a gift deal. It was fifty bucks more or less on a makeup package worth three hundred. So, she got it with the purchase of a perfume fragranced item. She said it would be for my sister. I told her I thought that was too much and she was too good a parent.
We talked about it. I said she should take out what she liked and give my sister the rest. Mom actually thought that she might keep it all herself and give my sister the gift card and perfume she bought. I, of course, smirked at that. I really have no idea what she will decide.
We left the mall then. It was around two thirty and we headed to eat a late lunch at a soup and salad buffet. I know we talked in there, but I can’t remember what about. Well, we ate, left and hit the rode for home.
The ride was pretty smooth. There was traffic getting out, but it was normal. We continued on and when we were about an hour away from home the town we entered was getting for a festival and a parade was likely to occur. People were gathered, lanes were closed and we needed to find a restroom. Heh. I pointed mom to a gas station and then we had to find a way to get out of the town since all the turn lanes we would usually take were blocked. We finally lucked out and got on track for home though.
We arrived, unpacked and I showed Dad my gift for my sister. Once settled we went out for dinner. We ate Chinese, came back home and did our usual ritual of watching a few television shows before going to bed.
I retired to my room around nine, checked a few things and started writing this.