Finally, finally, I made it back to the mall. I have not been there since one week before Christmas. Why is this? Oh, weather and shingles and weather and shingles. But today I was there and I ate some lunch.

Not here:

Not here:

But here:

And I had a big carton of chow mein because I love chow mein; I didn’t know that I loved chow mein until last year, but now I know that I love chow mein. I love it with a fork.

They had penguins at the fountain and I took a picture with my phone and was going to take more with my camera on the way back, but I forgot and went another way.

And, alas, Yankee Candle did not have a sale.

Yes, yes, I came back here . . . Sydney was here, dontcha know.

I sat today with this present in my hands and watched the light play on the inlay.

When two people were in California, they brought it home to me.