Well, mom and I were supposed to go see my Grandmother yesterday afternoon. We got talking on something random and missed the turnpike. So then we're heading off in a completely opposite direction. Mom decided we should just head up to the mall again b/c it would take just as long to turn around as it would to continue onward. We went with the idea to buy clothes for the 3 young girls in Sweden. My mom has friends over there, Camilla and Anders. They have 3 little girls (I haven't met the daughters yet) named Emma, Eilien, and Erika. They love glitzy clothes and everything American because it's just different. So we went into Limited Too, a high fashion (and high priced) young kids shop. It was all the rage when I was in grade school and by the looks of it, it's still all the rage now. We got 3 tshirts that all have glittery, english things on it. They were cute and relatively inexpensive. We also got 2 dangly necklaces with glittery stars or hearts on it. The one girl, Emma maybe, has a birthday coming up in a couple months. We got her a cute black and white shirt with rhinestones on it. Its kind of long so its meant to be worn with like leggings. We then got her a set of white and black glitzy bangles to match. That was fun, I love shopping for other people, especially kids. The salesladies there were very nice but driving me crazy. Anytime I'd be browsing, one of them would have to come up and ask if I was finding everything or if I needed help. Id say thanks, Im ok. I'd move to another part of the store only to have another lady come up and ask if I was finding everything or needed help. I must have gotten asked that like 4 or 5 times. So, when we were ringing everything up we were told if we spent like 2 more dollars we could ger 25% off. So I got this little lipgloss set for 5 bucks. It has 4 little glosses in it, that way each can have one and they can fight over the last. :)
As we were walking down the aisles there was a kiosk standing there with all of these shawls and jewelry pieces. Well, my mom loves shawls and I love jewelry so naturally, we gravitated towards it. Mom found this gorgeous hand made, gold shawl. The guy that was helping us was actually an Indian guy from Bombay. He was very nice, he even let us take the shawl to see if it would match the dress mom had bought previously. Mom offered to leave her drivers liscence with him so he would know we would come back. He said no, that was fine, he trusted we would come back. Well, it didn't match but it was too nice to pass up so Mom bought it anyway. I found this silver bracelet/cuff type thing with rhinestones on it. I love diamonds but really I love anything sparkly and glitzy...much cheaper than diamonds. :) He told me it was 25 dollars but he would give it to me for 20. I said deal and we got our receipt and prepared to leave. He then stopped me and said he had something for me, a gift. He handed me this tiny ring with red beads on it. It's inexpensive but I thought the jesture was very sweet. I said thank you and he said it was his pleasure and he hoped we would come back to him in the future. Mom kept teasing me afterwards and said I could get anything with my boobs. lol I think maybe I should try this in some higher priced stores...maybe Id get something good. Im awful I know...
We then went to my Grandmothers place, she lives in a nursing home. When we got there she was sitting in her wheelchair in the central area. She was pulling herself around the room with this sort of distressed look on her face. Mom and I went up to her to ask how she was doing. She didn't seem to happy. I left to go hang up her clean laundry that we had just done and when I came back Mom was gone. I asked Gram where she was and she just said she had to go make a phone call. She then proceeded to pull herself down the small hall towards the door. I asked where she was going. She said she had to go get her bills payed, they might be late otherwise. (She hasn't payed bills in years, my mom has been doing that because Gram's mind really isn't all there.) I told her that we had her bills taken care of and she didn't have to worry about it, mom did all that. She got sort of flustered with that and said, "No, she does not have to pay my bills. I dont want her to pay my bills. I can do that on my own." She wouldn't hear otherwise and tried to push the door open. The building is set so the main door into the heart of the building is locked and theres a code you use to open it. That way, none of the old people (like my Gram) can decide to just head out of there and do who knows what. Well, the door won't open unless you punch the code in. Obviously, it didn't open and Gram looked sort of irritated. Poor thing, she doesn't have a clue. Her son actually called (hes an ass) so she seemed happy to hear from him and forgot about all the errands she thought she had to run.
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