Its going on twelve thirty. I really want to go to bed. But today is special. Today is BLACK FRIDAY. Im in the living room of a friend, accompained by my husband and two other poor souls who have been victimized by greedy holiday shoppers. We figure, why bother going to sleep if we have to get up in the middle of the night anyway? But I'll get to all that later. For once I want to talk about something happy.

So this week I've had a little bit of time off. I've taken full advantage of my time by wasting it all. Seriously. I didn't want to lift a finger. One day, I had a WHOLE day off and the dishes was my biggest accomplishment. I was proud.

Even the few hours I did have to work were so easy. We had open gym style classes so it was like, "okay, kids. Go play for an hour and a half while I stand over here and supervise."

Matt has had the week off school and its been nice having him home. He's using his time wisely catching up on homework and projects. I helped him write a paper, but other than that, I've felt pretty useless lately :) My manuscript is in the mail so I really didn't know what to do with myself. I spent like four hours on netflix yesterday, it was great!

Besides being away from family, Thanksgiving was pretty cool. I got out of bed at like eleven, put the carrots in the crock pot and watched the dog show for like two hours. Eventually I talked myself into getting dressed and we went to Scott and Chelsea's. Jon and Denise, another couple from WalMart, joined us and brought a REAL apple pie! For six newlywed college kids I think we did pretty good. No thanksgiving staple was neglected. After some Halo and Rockband, Matt and I went back to my apartment and managed to watch Cloverfield before we decided to take a nap. But I just couldn't sleep knowing I had to be at work in less than 5 hours...

We figured the best place to be was @ Scott and Chelea's goofing off to keep us awake. Jon has agreed to dance to Katy Perry's "Hot and Cold" so I will have a mental image to haunt my dreams and will be to afraid to sleep.

I'm all about finding good holiday sales, but I wish people would understand what they are putting hardworking people through when they stand in line at 4am to buy an electronic hamster and a T.V. Because of selfish "traditions" my husband and I have to get out of our nice warm beds in the middle of the night and clock into a job we hate at 2 o'clock in the morning. My mother has an even worse fate, as she is working from 3am until 1pm. We never had a normal thanksgiving, seeing as mom was always justafiably crabby. In my house, thanksgiving was refered to as "the day before Black Friday."

If I'm not driving my point home, let's try this.

~ I hate Walmart.
~ I hate 2am
~ I hate people (in general)

Well see how this goes :)