My cast is still with me, preventing me from driving. This could be a good thing, because I have a tremendous desire to go shopping. I should be getting calls from the stores I shop in, wondering where I've been. Howard says several of them have had to close their doors because I haven't been there. IT REALLY ISN'T THAT BAD.
There are things about department stores and good boutiques that feed my artistic personality. I love color, and good displays. Great advertising draws me in. I did advertising design when I was younger, and the lure of merchandise has never left me. I think it is in my DNA.
My 94 year old mother and I loved the stores when we were young. Shopping was our favorite pastime together. We especially liked a good sale. I still love them, but I hate the crowds, so by the time I get there, the merchandise is picked over and the good stuff is gone. My mother once had a physical "tug-of-war" with a woman over a sweater at a sale; she didn't really want the sweater, but she didn't want the woman to have it either. She bought the sweater and returned it. What does that say about my mother? I don't want to delve into that now.
