ok, fine, for sure, for sure

I'm one step away from being a valley girl in a clothing store...

times they are a changing. they're finally starting in on the del amo mall remodeling project (without the much teased condos at the mall). so now i can't use my favorite driveway. and they've closed off my favorite lunchtime entrance to the mall. this means there is currently a marshalls attached to the mall building, but without any outlet into the mall. and the whole bottom section that used to house among other things: mcdonalds, the arcade, the cinnabun (and a b dalton bookstore a million years ago), and most recently, hosted a capital one commercial shoot is no more. this is very inconvienent for me, yet i'm very excited about the prospect of new life in that mall.

more disturbing, is that my favorite entrance to the mall looked like something was happening to it. made famous by the 1983 smash hit movie "valley girl" featuring a young nicolas cage, my favorite enterance is a windowed and doored square in a covered parking lot with an escalator up to the mall. granted, it didn't look particularly new in 1983, but i'm going to be very upset if they close it off. not upset enough to stop shopping though. because that would just be silly. but maybe upset enough to not shop in the rain.

it's a darn good thing i'm not from the valley, because i probably would have picked up the accent.-- remember that episode of family ties where jennifer writes a letter in valley speak and mallory has to translate for their parents-- that was a good one (and full of valuable life lessons about friendship)