Belated birthday bonanza

[iamangelachase]

Most years, Laura and I get together for our birthdays within a few weeks of them, or at least by January. This year...it got delayed. Severely delayed. Or else we're just getting a jump on our next birthdays. Either way, we finally met up for the first time since Scarecrow Fest in October. She's had a myriad of life changes going on, not the

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[chocolatescifi]

What is Five Below? They just opened a store here in Louiville not too long ago, but I haven't been able to stop by there yet.

[iamangelachase]

It's sort of like a dollar store for tweens and teens. The name is because everything is $5 or below that price.

I was worried I'd be the oldest person there, but since it's close to Easter and they have a lot of inexpensive stocking-stuffer (basket-stuffer, to be proper) kinds of things, there were a fair amount of parents there.

Have their website: http://www.fivebelow.com/

[chocolatescifi]

I may have to give it a look sometime this next week. It's in a new shopping center -- which was built literally right next door to one of Louisville's malls.

[iamangelachase]

I've been looking at their ads for a long time now--some of their stuff seems kind of cute. But for whatever reason I never went to the one by my house--probably because I didn't have another reason to go to that strip mall.

Oh, my sweets-loving friend, they have lots of candy...