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Just to close this whole sock saga for good, I returned them to the store today. I realized it must have been a small miracle that there was actually someone to check me out when I bought them in the first place, which let me temporarily forget that Macy’s is also the store I began to hate because there is never anyone to help you – and I mean when buying<\/em>. I remember once I got so frustrated I wanted to walk out the front door, clothes in hand, so that when the alarm went off I could say, “I wanted<\/em> to buy these, but nobody would take my money.”<\/p>\n

So I went to the empty hosiery department thinking I should return to the same place I bought them. Paced a while with that ‘I’m looking for someone to help me’ look, then when I gave up on that I wandered around the store finding five<\/em> more empty departments before I went back to mine. Settled in for a wait, leaning on the desk with backpack on floor, for five minutes (I timed it with my phone), occasionally glaring at the security cameras because someone<\/em> must see what’s going on in their store. Finally I set out again and managed to get in line behind someone else who was returning things, someone who must have found the secret key to summoning an employee.<\/p>\n

I didn’t let myself browse the store afterwards, lest I get tempted by something else that no one would let me buy.<\/p>\n

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Selina, Michael, and I have joined up to get in shape, lose weight, and keep each other accountable. A sort of late New Years resolution. A sort of I Want To Look Good Pregnant (oh, and be healthy too) resolution for me. (Actually I hate the concept of New Years resolutions and there’s no reason you can’t decide to make a change for the better at the end of February.)<\/p>\n

Being in the mall meant resisting an Auntie Anne’s pretzel, chocolate and banana-filled crepe, bubble tea, and an easy takeout dinner from the food court, even though I was suddenly starving when I hit the parking lot. I have to remind myself it’s okay to be hungry<\/em>. Also eating a 340 calorie pretzel won’t mean I’ll eat that much less for dinner. Meanwhile the bakery is going to be my downfall. I made crack brownies last night, so good that I’d keep eating them even if I was standing on the scale while doing so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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