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    Sunday, December 21, 2008

    smitten for the mitten...

    ugh, i had to go to the mall today to try to find a gift for my co-workers. of course it was crowded since it's coming down to the wire to do some christmas shopping. for work we're doing something called a "white elephant" gift exchange. i didn't know what that was so they explained how it's suppose to be like gag gifts. i had no idea what to get. for the most part i think i suck at buying gifts. i just want people to really like what i give them that i worry about it too much and can never find that perfect gift. well, my mom and i headed off to the mall in search for this "white elephant." side-note: everytime i hear "white elephant" i think of a tiny elephant trinket or something like that. i love elephants so i would love that as a gift. how can an elephant be a bad gift? anyway, we went into a few stores and i still had no idea what to get. in the end we ended up going into spencer's. if i couldn't find a gag gift in there then i wouldn't find one anywhere. like every other store in the mall it was packed and hard to walk around. there we're a bunch of gag type stuff...but only a handful was appropriate for work. finally i found something i thought could work for a gift. here he is: it's this litte kung fu dude who kicks and talks. there are six saying and luckily i think they are all pretty "clean." it's says on the box for ages 5+ so that works. it's one of thoes things you'd never buy for yourself and never ask for as a gift. i feel like it's a really random gift but actually a little cute too.see how cute he is. i almost want to keep it. the plus was he was 50% which fit well into the price limit we had set. and i didn't end up wasting a load of money on something that only i would probably love to have gotten.
    after finding the gift i was all for leaving the mall. i did not want to spend more time there than i had to. just way too much people. but before heading home we stopped at target. they had a sale on some of the winter wear stuff and so i checked out the gloves on sale. i ended up getting a pair:mittens! it kind of looks like an oven mit. i would have been all for plain black gloves but they didn't have any on sale. and their other solid color gloves were still a bit pricey. the fact that they're leopard print is just an added bonus. and while leopard print mittens are pretty awesome the reason i got these were:
    they convert into fingerless gloves! and the thumb part even comes down too:so i bought them for around $7. i'm pretty much going to just use them for when i'm driving to work since it's so cold. i don't see where else i'd wear them so i wasn't looking to spend a lot. so this pair is pretty much perfect. i'm going to try them out on the drive tomorrow and see if they do the trick.

    till later.
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