So yesterday I went over to Allison’s house to drop off a “belated” Christmas card, only to find out she wasn’t home. Of course, she only lives a few blocks away, so it didn’t take very long to get there but still…

I’ll probably call her again today to see if she is home before going over there to surprise her. ;-)

I called my other friend (who lives MUCH farther away than Allison does) but she wasn’t home either! (I wanted to give her a card to, her name is Tracy)

And I really wanted to just DRIVE somewhere, so I went home, and my brother and I decided to go and check out the after-Christmas sales up in Bloomington. We went to Eastland Mall first, where there was a TON of people, even though it was going on 6PM at night! Kohl’s, apparently, was having a HUGE sale. Although when we went in there, most of the stuff was sold out, including the size of my jeans. (50% off from 30 bucks!) I was really happy when I saw that, but then became really sad when they didn’t have my size! :-(

So instead I got my mother some vanilla-scented candles and a few mugs for both of my parents. (All in all it cost me 10 bucks at that store - whoo hoo!)

Then we went to Bergner’s because mother is into this Pfaltzgraff dinnerware (The Winterberry Collection) so I bought her some votive candles to go with her set that are the Winterberry kind. They are very nice! Marked down from 40 bucks to 16, that was a heck of a deal as well!

Then we went to go and see King Kong. A very interesting movie, but it did NOT need to be 3 hours long! It was kind of weird in a lot of parts, but I really liked the action parts because it contained Adrian Broody running around ha ha - he is kind of cute, just too big of a nose. :-)

Jack Black’s part was REALLY weird in that movie, and they could have had half of the romantic scenes out and some of the “slower parts” out it probably would have made it a much smoother movie. I think Peter Jackson just tried to hard personally…

Now mother is home (??) from work because apparently there is more than enough people to be there for a few hours. She is “taking a break for a few hours” by coming home and…doing laundry?? Whatever works ha ha! :-)