Facebook ate my brain

Well, hello there. Facebook didn’t really eat my brain… I’m just too lazy to keep updating my status there and keeping up with the blog. But I promise I’ll do better!

So, it’s Christmas. The first Christmas without Mom, which I’ve already decided will totally suck. It’s not that Mom ever did anything to make the holiday super-special or anything, but she knew it was my favorite time of the year. She always went WAY OVERBOARD with gifts, and while the gifts are not the important part, I always loved that she got me so well… she just always knew what I would like, even if it wasn’t something that I asked for. I will never again, for the rest of my life, get gifts as good as the ones she’s bought me over the years, and that just sucks. I’ve been so spoiled!

I went shopping for Christmas presents tonight – this was my first real shopping trip this year. I went to the mall, and wow. Talk about memories.

• I went to Macy’s first – we didn’t have Macy’s in Indiana when I was growing up, but we shopped every year at L.S. Ayres or Carson Pirie Scott. Dad got new cologne, maybe a wallet, and always clothes. Walking through the perfume department made me think of Mom.
• I stopped at the Hickory Farms kiosk – we used to get Dad a gift basket every year, so I bought one for old time’s sake. I remember picking them out with Mom when I was a little kid.
• Next stop was Johnny Rocket’s for something to eat. As I took off my coat, I realized how hot I had been, and how cumbersome it is to carry around a winter coat in the first place… and then I remembered how we always rented a locker at the mall so we wouldn’t have to carry them around. Do they even have those lockers any more?
• Finally, I went to JCPenney. We almost always shopped there for Dad’s clothes, because you could buy big & tall in the store rather than having to order it online. And picking up gifts at the catalog department!

It was just a crazy evening. It was like taking a little trip to Christmas past, minus the ghost to guide the way. Though I guess she was there, in a way.

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