On Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, I went to work for several hours. The original plan was to work, leave early if possible to do my turkey dinner as lunch, and then head over to Marla's in the evening for dinner. Well, not really Marla's as her plan had changed. She got the normal amount of stuff for her Thanksgiving dinner which is great, only thing this year her family is in Chicago so it would be only her, her husband and her 2 kids. So she decided to take her stuff to her friend's and cook there along with what her friend got and have dinner there. Sounds like a plan. I'll be there for dinner with dessert. I would be making a Cheesecake with a creamy topping and fresh raspberries and kiwi.
Work did not go as planned. It was fairly slow, but decided to stay the entire shift for the day. I couldn't pass up 7 hours including lunch at 1 1/2 times pay on such an easy day.
I was not able to make the cheesecake the day before, so I would need to get home, make the cheesecake, and then head over to dinner with Marla, her family, and friend. I got off work at 1:30 pm and was past 2:00 pm when I got home.
~brain-wandering, last year I was off and my mother came to visit. We went shopping at K-Mart that happened to be opened on Thanksgiving Day, we got some awesome deals, then went to dinner at Marla's house that was fully packed with her family and friends, we then headed to the Phoenix Zoolights. such a lovely day~
The plan for me now was to make the cheesecake, then head over to dinner with Marla and friends, and postpone the dinner with My cousin, who is also my roommate, and Aaron, also my roommate. However, I realized that what I had really wanted is to just stay and make dinner, even if it was just heating up the ready-meal, and have a relaxed afternoon/evening at home. So instead I started my dinner at home. This meant that dinner would be at around 5pm or 6pm. I don't remember if I called Marla or if she called, but decided we would try to get together the next day, Black Friday...
About 30 minutes before dinner was done, Jerry had waken up. He works nightshift at a store so he sleeps during the day, however he was off on Thanksgiving. We served ourselves, ate with no room for dessert and then just vegged out, the rest of the evening.
I woke up Friday morning at my usual time. On a normal work day I am up between 4:30 am - 5:00 am, but Friday's are my days off. I usually sleep in on this day which means getting up no later than 10am. That's really late for me.
I really wasn't going to shop 'till i dropped, just wanted to get a digital camera that was advertised at a really good price as a gift.
Target Stores kicked off their 2-day sale with doors opening on Friday at 6am. So I drive by my closest Target and there was maybe 20-40 people in line, so I decided to drive to check out a different location. I drove to the Target Greatland by the Chandler Fashion Mall. It's now 15 minutes before 6am and there must have been about 200 people lined up. The line extended from the entrance almost to the road of the shopping center. I am not about to wait in line for anything no matter how great the sale is. Third and last attempt. Drove to the Target in Ahwatukee and the line extended from the entrance all the way to the Mervyn's store which is on the other end of the shopping center. It was now just 3 minutes before 6am. So no thanks. No sale is great enough for me to stand in line and then try and "fight" with people on stuff. I will gladly pay regular price for anything than stoop to that level.
I drove back home, made a pot of coffee and turned on the news. The news had on of course video of the people lined up at Target and other stores, with some having camped out the night. An hour and a couple cups of coffee later, I decided I would go to Target. I went to a different location than the ones I had driven by earlier. It was now just past 7am. The parking lot was plenty full, but not as packed as I expected. My guess, the early birds were done and gone and the rest of the people were still sleeping off their Thanksgiving dinners from the night before.
Inside the store, most people were shopping the electronics and toys section, which is where I was headed. I did not find the camera that was advertised, however I was not going to waste my waking up early and not getting at least something. So I wandered around the store and found some neat deals on other stuff, not for gifts, but for me. :) So I now have a crock-pot, and I got it at an awesome price, a movie, and a new computer monitor. I also got a couple hand towels. The hand towels have a snowman on them to match with a hand soap dispenser from Avon shaped like a snowman that my mother gave me last year. I was most happy about the monitor. I have been wanting to update/upgrade computers for a while, so a new monitor is a first step. My old monitor was a bulky 15 inch, CRT I think it's called. Anyways, that one is going to Goodwill, I now have a 19" Widescreen LCD Monitor. So excited I can't even tell you.
Anyways, I got home and of course first thing I had to do is hook up my new Monitor. At first it seemed that it would not work, but I had not plugged in the cord correctly on the back of the monitor. So so excited, next step upgrade PC.
By this time it was close to noon and I was ready for a bite. I called Marla to see if we were still getting together, in my mind possibly having lunch, but when I called sounded like she had her hands full with her children. She said she'd call back. Waited about 10 minutes but something must have come up. So I made a turkey pot pie with some of the left over turkey and watched several episodes of Smallville. Watching back to back episodes makes the time fly by. Marla called back several hours later, so we should definitely get together sometime before the year ends.
It's X-mas time... I always kick of the season watching Christmas Vacation. So I popped that in as I started assembling the small fake x-mas tree. It's a small tree. I got it several years ago when my cousin moved from Texas, and we got an apt together. The tree seems small now that we are in a house, but it was the perfect size for the couple of apartments we got to use it in. Assembling it was as far as I got though as It was late and I just plopped down to finish watching the movie and then went to sleep. Aaron put up some snowy green garland on the hallway entrance and hung ornaments on the loops. It looks nice. I had a good day.
Saturday and Sunday of this weekend was my weekend to work. I work every other weekend. No luck leaving early on either day, but Amy was working on Saturday, so the day went by faster. Left work at 4:30pm got home after 5pm. Ate some left overs as I watched several more episodes of Smallville. I strung some lights on the tree. Aaron suggested I put colored lights, however the first x-mas I had with this tree I made it look quite elegant with all white non-blinking lights, with gorgeous silver, frost-white and red glass ornaments and perfectly made ribbon-bows. I loved the look of that first time so I have kept it similar, adding a few different ornaments each year. Last year I added perfectly matching ornaments in green. Each year My X-mas stuff grows by a couple of extra lights and decorations. This year is not the exception, but I still like my tree with just white lights. The only colored lights I have are for a pre-strung green garland that I got last year, and 2 sets of either 200 or 300 small lights used for the outside. Maybe I'll get a bigger tree in the future and decorate it with colored lights.
.... Updated 02/14/2010, link to Amy's bloghttp://thosecrazyschuberts.com/
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