Today, I spent most of my day at two malls on opposite ends of the shopping spectrum: high-end Aventura Mall and outlet mall Sawgrass Mills.

It appears that no one has received the memo that holiday shopping traditionally begins after Thanksgiving. But, I guess that's because retailers are suffering so much that they've begun the post-Thanksgiving sales in the pre-Thanksgiving weeks.

Better for me, I suppose.

Two other (totally unrelated) things of note: I spent some wonderful time with out-of-town friends (at the high-end mall) and this is my 300th blog post! Since I won't be getting to 400 this year, this will probably be my last big blog milestone.