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Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250
-- from Harper's Index

Fruitless shopping

I tried to do some house stuff shopping today that proved to be quite fruitless. Not even a dime spent. I drove to Issaquah to the furniture shop where we bought the first bed. We found an entertainment unit at another place, but wanted to see what they had since the salesperson who helped us has called a couple of times to tell us that they've put other pieces of the bedroom set on sale. Didn't find anything exciting there so since I had the GPS I thought that I would do a little search for antique stores. I found three in the list that looked promising so off I went. Ummm, that was sucky too. I thought it was a little weird that the first address had me driving up in the hills of a residential neighborhood. Turns out that antique store #1 was in someone's house and that was a little creepy to me. So off to store #2, that was no longer an antique store and I wasn't sure about the area with store #3 and decided to go to the Factoria mall instead.

Someone should have told me that the Factoria mall sucks. Since it was lunch time I thought I would find a quick bite at the food court. Everything is closed or coming soon. I did find the DSW and thought oooh! shoes. I learned today that even if it's in the clearance section, the price may not be what you want. Found a pair that was really cute, but I didn't even try those suckers on with the clearance price of $399.99! Who buys shoes that expensive. And how much did they cost before the clearance tag? No wait! How much did they cost retail?

Anyway, shopping was a big bust today. What makes it so sad is that I was really in the mood to shop. I'm going to do a little research on antique stores so I don't end up with a list like I had today.