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Yesterday, Yoshi was kind enough to accompany me to the mall. We went to South Coast Plaza (in OC) because it’s the biggest mall around with the best selection. I have to find something dressy enough for a wedding, but “casual” enough to wear to a wedding in Maui. This is harder than you might think.

And in case I haven’t mentioned it, I hate shopping for clothes.

I was in the first store and almost had a meltdown within the first 5 minutes because they already had their fall lines out and there was nothing appropriate for a summer wedding there. Yoshi looked at me and said, “We’ve been here for five minutes. Keep it together.” Thank goodness, because I was about to lose it.

I found a shirt that I liked and a pair of pants, but neither of them were appropriate for a wedding, so we headed over to Macy’s (after a brief pit stop at the GAP for Yoshi). I had slightly more luck at Macy’s, but only slightly. I have never really been able to wear most clothes off the rack (everything fits funny on me), so I don’t know what I was hoping for… maybe a divine miracle that SOMETHING would magically fit AND be appropriate for a Maui wedding?

Anyway, I found two skirts that I could wear to the wedding (one of them is like 4 sizes too big, but I’m willing to take the chance of it falling off of me… or maybe I will pin the skirt to my top?). Now I’ve got to find a top to go with one of these skirts.

Sigh.

This is so hard.

After Macy’s we had a late lunch at the Back Bay Rowing Club. It was getting late and we were on a strict time table because (YAY!) my Bro was coming in on a flight to LAX from Taiwan. We finished eating and headed toward Robinson’s-May to see if I could find a top (nope). I got a few more things there (unmentionables, so I won’t mention them specifically).

We left the mall with half a wedding outfit (no, going topless is NOT an option!). So it means I’ll probably have to brave the malls again next weekend if something doesn’t turn up in my closet.

On the bright side, I also purchased a new purse that I love, which will replace my current day-to-day purse (I had a small accident with a not-so-shut bottle of Diet Snapple that overturned in my purse on Friday).

We headed back toward LAX, stopping at Costco to get gas. Our timing was almost impeccable. My brother said that he’d reached the curb only 3 minutes before we got there with the car. (This was very lucky on our part, because we left a LOT later than we were supposed to. I got a little distracted in the purse/handbag section. It turned out they were delayed from deboarding the plane because a kid had a fever and they wouldn’t let anyone off until the medics got into the plane. But when Bro was first telling Yoshi what happened we thought he said “seizure.” Oh, and Bro was delayed at baggage claim and customs for a long time, so it bought us time to get gas and get there.) We drove all the way back to the OC to drop Bro off at home. I had a few things to take care of there, so we hung out there for a while. By this time, it was 9:30 at night and we got a couple of burgers at the drive-thru at Carl’s Jr and pulled over on the side of the road to watch the fireworks at Disneyland while we ate.

After that, we got back on the road and headed back to L.A. In the last 10 hours, we’d driven a couple hundred miles or so and traversed the 10, 5, 710, 405, 105, 605, 91, and the 101 all in one day.

Whew. What a Saturday.

Thanks to Yoshi for being such a trooper and putting up with me all day.