Middle America's Worldview

Well, it's already 7 p.m. this black Friday and it was a pretty good day. Yesterday for Thanksgiving we went to Kel's Aunts house for a feast, played games and planned the sales day out. We played the horse racing game again with about 8 people. This was the same one we bought Kel's dad while we were in Arizona. It was pretty fun. I left with less quarters than I came into the game with. : (

The kids, their papa and I played on their four wheeler for awhile as well. Kel's parents had it gassed up and ready to go. The weather yesterday was around 71, if you can believe it for the end of November. Unreal.

The kids stayed at Kel's parents house for the second night, last night. Kelli wasn't feeling well so she and I headed home around 6-7 p.m. We finalized the path for our money saving trip the following morning. Nearly every store was opening at 5 a.m.

Kel fell asleep pretty fast. I was jacked up from drinking coffee and soda's nearly all day. I popped 4 melatonin's to no avail. I didn't even watch cable tv. I popped in my Farscape from Kel. She gave me the second season early (yes I am spoiled). I am glad she did. I have enjoyed it immensely this week. I watched a couple of hours and popped an additional 3 melatonin's. I finally fell asleep around 11:30 p.m.

We woke up before 4 a.m. without an alarm. Kel's mom came to pick me up 4:30 a.m. and we headed to Walmart. She and I have been a team of this for the last 4 years. Not much was picked up there. Only one admatch was found. We were in line to get out longer than we were grabbing the items. A lady 3 people up ahead of us made some people curse. She and her husband had a large basket (top and bottom) filled to the rim. She had tried 4 credit cards that would not go through. She then went to her check book and did not have a single check in there to write one. Talk about unprepared. We changed lanes and moved on. How embarrassing. The bargain I found was two dvd's (The last boyscout and Swordfish) for 3.44 apiece.

We then met up with Kel at Kohls. Talk about a freaking crazy store. I went in there and basically went straight into the line. It was already throughout the whole store around 2 corners of it. Kel shopped while I stood there holding her findings. Again, it was basically for everyone else, not our stuff. Oh well. I did manage to sneak a couple of items from there for Kel's Christmas. ; )

We then hit Old Navy and found some really nice clothes for Kel and the kids. We also found some polo shirts (10 bucks a piece) that allowed me to match our son. Cool.

I left Kel and her mom to go to Hastings. It didn't open till 8 a.m. I purposely wanted to grab 2 dvd sets to get the free dvd stand. I wanted to acquire the first season of Full house for our daughter and one for Kel. While i stood there for 20 minutes I found out I wasn't so hard core. Some dude ahead of me was talking about being up 16 hours. He was in front of Best Buy since 10 p.m. the night before? Seems there was a computer on sale, with no mail in rebates. I had to ask if actually got it. He said "Oh yeah, I was the 16th in line". Wow, 16th at 10 p.m. the night before. He had a cot, sleeping bag and hot cocoa. Best Buy had sent out free wifi so they could browse the net for free while being out there all night. Crazy, man.

I didn't find the initial dvd sets I went for. However, I did grab 2 of them and 2 dvd's Kel's cousin had wanted. I grabbed the dvd set, season one ane two, the original scooby doo. I barely found it. I snagged the dvd stand. Yeah.

We gathered together at IHOP to eat breakfast together and then everyone departed their own ways. Kel, the kids and I went home. Looking at our sacks of sales, I see we only had clothes, my two dvd's. I was kindof surprised to only find primary clothes for our discomfort and no sleep. Oh well. Our daughter and I wrapped Kel's presents and now we have something under the tree.

We did manage to get a nap in today. We plan to do nothing but rest tomorrow. Only 2 days of my vacation left. Drat.