back to normal

i felt normal thursday and friday but woke up realizing that chanukah was friday. spent both days running around like a lunatic trying to gather gifts that were mostly thoughtful and relatively inexpensive.

i hate malls.

it must be from the many days spent as a buyer at macy's in the late '80s & early '90's visiting sotres and eating lunch at the depressing food courts. when i go to the mall i still get that anxious feeling of making sure i don't miss anything anywhere.

i tend to walk very fast looking in the stores and checking off mentally if i need anything from those stores, looking at their sale signs and deciding on the spot if it's worth a look see. beware the sales associate who stops me and asks if i need help. i neither want nor need help unless i ask for it. when i do ask for it, i want it right away....so not fun for them. oh well......i am a girl with a mission!

anway, we had chanukah last night and i think everyone was pleasantly surprised. ben, sam & i made enough latkes for the millenium, we sang our songs and opened gifts and even played a few rounds of dreidel. simple pleasures :)

i think i've now ordered enough stuff online to cover the days i don't have anything for them....i'm good with yankee peddler / secret santa and i think my credit card can take a break!!!!



afterwards h & i went to a neighborhood dinner at gigi & pauls and met the new people who just moved in. i'm getting used to wearing the wig now. i was going to go as a blonde but i figured since i didn't know them maybe i should just downplay the cancer part. drank this awesome spanish after dinner sweet wine. i think it gave me technicolor dreams that are still replaying in my head now:)



looking forward to today, tomorrow and next week where i should still feel "normal". happy holidays!!!!