damn you, vile sickness!
after weeks of wet pants cuffs and frozen fingers, i've finally caught a cold. luckily the campaign is over, but i hope i recover by next weekend or else i will be quite a miserable sight. but alcohol kills germs, right? :P old joke.

i spent the day with my mom and aunt at hillsdale, my secret shopping mall goldmine. i always find stuff there i can't find anywhere else. two things struck me as i fought off old grannies and annoying mallrats (NOTE: this is going to be an uncharacteristically [ha] shallow and more-stylish-than-thou rant, but what do you expect, i was at a mall, for chrissakes):
1) i don't understand what possesses people to firstly buy and subsequently wear certain items of clothing that they believe to be trendy to the mall. for example, jeans with hella straps on them. or those satin pants that are cinched at the bottoms. what goes through the minds of these people as they decide whether to purchase these things? i just don't understand. i'm all for taking fashion risks, but there are limits of taste! i mean, i see these things on sale at lots of stores, but i never thought anyone actually bought them, god forbid. (NOTE: i'm sure there are some of you out there who are going to say, "but, lisa, you've made some rather atrocious fashion mistakes, too -- camoflage capris? the fake hair? the pleather phase? that scarf that you wore as a top? that hawaiian skirt that you swore got shorter each time you wore it? and those crocodile stiletto boots that you couldn't walk in, so you made billy and bruce carry you instead, and had tommie hold them for you and someone accused him of stealing them?" to you, i say: "play 'wheels on the bus,' and get out of my face!....and the scarf top was hella cute!")
2) there were tons of couples at the mall today. TONS. how do these (totally unfashionable, i might add) people get together? how? HOW?! you ever stare at couples and think, how does she have a boyfriend and I don't? probably not, since you're probably not as spiteful or petty as i am. or you haven't admitted it to yourself yet. these are the things i think about when i go to the mall. that, and where's the claire's?

obviously, being sick has put me in quite a mood. back to family guy.