Looooong day of gadding about, doing emergency shopping and supply gathering in support of the general holidays effort and our coming vacation.
Went to the Park Meadows Mall — which, amazingly, was far less insane that I’d have thought. Of course, we’ve a greater sense of urgency than most (we have basically just this weekend, while most folk have another two weekends to crisis shop). That may also, though, be one of the reasons why so many stores have lots of “Clearance” and “BOGO” sorts of displays. The Disney Store (where we were going to pick up the Parkhopper passes for WDW) had BOGOs for toys — and, not incidentally, a large amount of nifty Incredibles swag …
Filled out the shortfall in Christmas cards, found a suitcase for Kitten, bought the fixins for this year’s Generic Co-worker Gift, went to the store, and came home totally frazzled, mall crowds or not.