Black Friday AND SATURDAY?

Published by admin under Pandemonium on November 29, 2009

This must be a new phenomenon because I always swear off  “Black Friday” and head out to the stores Saturday because I could care less about sales I just want to shop without the hassle.  I don’t remember Saturday last year being so black lol.

This morning we ventured out thinking it was safe, but everywhere we went it was hectic & there were sales going on toting “Black Saturday” slogans. I guess just Friday is no longer good enough for them. It wasn’t too crowded, but it had that fire sale feeling in the atmosphere that crawls under my skin and makes me a nervous wreck. None of the items I happened to be seeking out were on sale either haha. Just my luck.

We got these cute nifty lil LED colored Christmas lights (my “Green” came out) at Garden Ridge for a steal though. Naomi’s last present was snagged up at Target along with some diapers(totally unchristmas related haha). After a short interlude at home involving chicken nuggets and naps I went out with the girls for dinner and shopping again while Matthew went hunting with his Uncle.   At Big Lots I grabbed Princess wrapping paper for Vera and Tinker Bell for Nogi. At $2 a huge roll it was a pretty good deal and it wasn’t a sale item either. Then because I was waiting for Matthew to get back from hunting I killed some time and money at Dollar Tree on tape and stocking stuffers.

Before we headed home for the evening Matthew joined us at Walmart to get our tree (if you can call it that) and some 3M Reusable Command Adhesive Strip Hooks to hang the girls stockings with. Being as we are apartment dwellers with children we are limited to space so we were shooting for a “Charlie Brown” tree and that is definitely what we got haha.

Our potted Norfolk Island Pine is cute in an odd sort of way. It’s a very good first tree for the girls. We’ve never had a tree in the 3 years of Vera’s short lil life sadly.  Hopefully I don’t kill the tree before Christmas. That would be a  travesty. We stayed up late with them to hang the stockings and put our new LED light strand on our “Charlie Brown” tree and joined in singing “Hark! The Herold Angels Sing” in true Charlie Brown fashion haha. It’s been on heck of a “Black Saturday” I’ll tell ya that much! Now that the girls are sleeping peacefully I”m going to finish my Samuel Adams Winter Lager(which is awesome by the way) and get some Z’s. Can’t wait to make ornaments with Vera tomorrow after grocery shopping ^_^.