*cracks knuckles* Black Friday ;)

Been a busy week and I'm worn out already!  Kaitlynne got 2nd place out of her entire school on the turkey coloring contest *smiling big*!  It made her entire week!  Thanksgiving went very well, I was relieved.  I cooked turkey, gravy, green bean casserole, corn, cherry cheesecake and pumpkin pie.  My sister-in-law (next door) cooked ham, stuffing, mashed potatoes, baby carrots, and apple pie (we both pitched in on appetizers of deviled eggs, shrimp dip, spinach dip, and a pickle/olive tray).  We had both of our families there, and our father-in-law and brother-in-law came out.  Granted, I can't stand that particular BIL, but I let it slide for the day...still family, no matter.  Everyone was in a good mood, kids played, guys watched football, my mom slept (lol), and Sandra and I got our Black Friday lists ready. 

Which leads me to Friday.  We met up at 330am at her house (yes, folks...I went to bed at 1am, got up at 230am...people that know me, pick up your jaws), then headed for Walmart.  We got there at 4am, and got our cozy space next to our prize purchase-the portable dvd players.  I was getting one for our car, and she was getting two for her kids.  One lady asked if she could get by me with her cart, so I moved a bit...she and 2 of her *bleeping* friends stopped right in front of me.  She then turned and started talking to about 10 more people...Sandra and I put ourselves close together and didn't let a damn one of them up there...assheads.  We were both a bit nervous about when the plastic was going to come off of the pallet..we knew it would be chaos.  At 455am, a couple of women in front of us said they'd peel it back so it would be ready at 5am.  Well, the beyotch that cut in front of me said, "Oh it's on now" and made a DIVE into the pallet!!  I said, "oh shit" as the mass suddenly lunged forward...it was INSANE!  LOL!  I grabbed 3 cases, and Sandra (while cussing at people squishing her) just <barely> grabbed the 3 dvd players.  She hollered to me she had them and we made a quick and much-needed escape from the mass of clammering shoppers.  We laughed, high-fived (yes, we're nerds), and I then noticed she had a big scratch and bruise across her chin...war wounds!  LOL!

After that, we made our way around the store to grab the other things we wanted (no where NEAR as dangerous as the dvd player).  I got a couple Fisher Price toys (one for Brandon, one for Kim's twins), each of our girls the 4-piece pajama sets, and a few dvd's.  Sandra got her soccer table, but couldn't find the air hockey table (told her we'd find it somewhere else...btw, I went to Walmart today and saw they had 6 more air hockey tables out at the same BF price...LOL), a pillow that has speakers that plugs into an mp3 player, and a few movies.  Then we went to go to Target...OMG!  The line was around the front of the building, down the main road!  We just looked at each other and said, "hell no", and headed to Kmart (we knew they wouldn't be as busy..lol).  Sandra got her air hockey table there, both got a couple more dvd's, I picked up quite a few 12 packs of Pepsi products (2.00/12pk...can't beat that!) for our soda machine, and a Bratz doll.  Ran into a friend of an acquaintenance and said hey...she was a royal beyotch (like she usually is, I hear), so that started to turn my mood sour.  I got over it, tho, as we headed to ToysRUs.  The lines were INSANE in there, but they (the employees) had it very organized..I'll give them credit for that.  I got a Bratz styling head, and Spongebob inflatable boxing thing.  She got a guitar, a huge transformer, a football kind of game, and we both got a couple other things (can't remember...lol).  Then we headed back to Target (much calmer then).  We headed to electronics and both got a couple more dvd's (ended up with like 10 movies each..lol), each got a Spongebob GBA game, each got our hubbies something similar (not saying what, cuz Alex reads this...sometimes, anyway), and a few other things.  I ran into Kim there (she gave me a big hug..we haven't seen each other in awhile...she's been sick, as have the babies), said we'd get together soon.  Then Sandra and I headed out to lunch to end the extravaganza.  We had planned for 2 weeks to go to Kotobuki.  I couldn't believe it, tho...they were closed!  Ugh...so we ended up at Ale House (had a spinach dip appetizer that was SO good...I bought some goodies to try and make it tomorrow...lol).  Then she dropped me off at the hotel and I got a room to catch a little nap before Alex came for work with the kids.  All-in-all it went well, and I had a good time.  I came home, did dishes, used what little energy I had left to play with the kids, then crashed hard when Alex got home...LOL! 

I put up my decorations today...bought some to put outside, too.  Looks cute.  I haven't done the tree yet, tho I have it on the porch.  I want to clean my carpets in there first.  My brother called and said he is indeed coming back for Christmas (they had gone to Springfield to work).  I was pretty happy to hear that (maybe my harping finally worked...Petey's family sees them way more then we do and they live in another state!).  He should be back Tuesday or so...I'm excited :)

Anywho, that's about it.  I'm still tired today (blah).  Next Saturday is the Christmas parade-I can't wait!  Hope all had a good Thanksgiving...and saved plenty of energy...December's right around the corner :)