lastnite: a dream journal

Shopping again (Noid/California Raisins)

I had a big bruise on my left temple. I was worried everyone would think I was abused by my boyfriend.

Matt and I went shopping somewhere for his brother and mother's birthday, and on the way there, Target, Wal-Mart, and all other grocery and discount department stores were closed. It was bright daylight and not a major holiday. When we got the strip mall we were going to shop at, I noticed that Food-4-Less was open. We went to a small department store that had an unusual assortment of things.

In the collectibles department, I found a Transformer-type toy of a Noid and a California Raisin. I only realized what it was after flipping the eyes into the right position so that the Noid was the back and the Raisin was in the front (or vice versa). I set it down, but then thought later that Dan might be amused by it. When I went back to get it, it was gone. They had other Noid merchandise though.

"Where can I get a hat? I just want a hat to match these gloves," Matt asked, finding only berets. He also threw out some French words. We were standing in front of some ceramic masks painted with woodland scenes.

I wanted to buy some underwear and socks so I wouldn't have to do laundry as often, but they didn't have any. That's when I started looking at the books and they had a bunch of weird ones. They had a book on Postmodern Interpretations of Spencer, some cheap Faulkner short stories, and anthologies in the Best Poems of 1987 vein. A young couple kept trying to crowd me out while they looked at photography books. Matt was sitting out in the main lobby of the mall waiting for me, so I left.