Day after Thanksgiving

It's the day after Thanksgiving. Ugh. I just woke up and Jenn is sound asleep on the couch. Mady is sound asleep in her room. Good football on today. Went shopping this morning. Now, I'm not the crazy type that gets up before the crack of dawn for Black Friday. Funny thing is, we vowed not to go out early. Go out maybe mid morning. I was sitting on Fred (my easy chair) and Jenn comes down and sits down on the couch and looks at me at 6:05 am this morning. Hmm, I thought. Why is she up? So I asked the obvious question.

"Why are you up, Jenn?"

She looked at me and with all the seriousness in the world says, "People are out there buying things that I want to buy."

That pretty much ended our hanging out together. She got dressed and headed out. By 7, I was sitting on Fred buying things on line for the same amount as I would pay at Best Buy, Target or where ever else I might wander.

She got back about 8:30 with all kinds of goodies. Don't know what she got, she won't tell me. My response was "whatever you can do, I can do better..." (can't you hear the music, now?)

My first escape was to Staples. Don't know why. I just thought, hmm, I'll start with stocking stuffers. Then I walked in and got that kinda excited feeling in my shins. You ever get that? Your shins get excited? I dunno, maybe I'm just weird.

Found one really cool thing that I wouldn't have even thought of getting Jenn when I'm sitting on Fred.I'll tell you after Christmas.

Then I mosied down to Michael's (blah! - I was there for like 45 seconds. I couldn't breathe because of all the blue hair's perfume. I've never sucked fresh air so deeply as I did when I left Michael's. Of course my pace quickened as I worked my way down to Best Buy. Course, then I started hyperventilating thinking about Best Buy, where I ended up staying for over 2 hours.) Let me just say that I love Best Buy (By the way, a cashier at Best Buy told me that people started lining up at 6:30 YESTERDAY MORNING to stand in line. There was a tent outside on the parking lot for crying out loud. Someone slept in the Best Buy parking lot!) I think they pump pure unadulterated oxygen into Best Buy. I walk in stand there and take in (another) huge lung full of air. I look around, raise my hands and send up a little prayer of thanksgiving. I usually let out a little yelp or boast, "this is MY house! My House!" Usually at this point a security person [male or female] tells me to "Settle down. There's enough Best Buy to go around for everyone. "Best Buy is pretty much the most amazing thing I've ever seen in blue and yellow. And although I can't think of anything else in blue and yellow besides the Michigan Wolverines, I'm sure it's the best color combination ever. Ever.



Ok, so why do I catch myself looking at refrigerators at Best Buy? I could look at GPS' (my new obsession), PS2 (a previous obsession - actually I shouldn't say obsession, that's not very Jesus like. I should say, um, a quest, or an edeavor, no, no, I got it, "a journey." That's very christianese.). So, I'm on a journey right now. And I end up in appliances. Stainless steel goliath's that I could move into and stay cold 24/7. HD TV on the door and you get ice cubes at the push of a button. People drop like 3 grand to keep granny's casserole cold and I complain when my water bill goes up 4 bucks over the course of 2 months. My first car was 400$. Sheesh, what will they come up with next? A car that flies? Oops, it's already in fabrication.

So I wander over to the GPS units. Very cool stuff. I think I'm going to go with the Tomtom.

Has some fun features. I've been searching for days now. Magellans, Garmins, Harmon Kardons. I think I'm having about as much fun researching which model to get as actually owning one and putting it in my car. When I get one I'll probably save the exact location of my fridge. "Only 5 more feet to the fridge. Take a left and go up the stairs. You'll see the fridge on your right hand side." That would rock. I can download James Earl Jones' voice to tell me where my bathroom is located. I'm not opposed to ebaying it. Craigslist would be nice to avoid shipping, but probably won't find what I'm looking for on there. We'll see, I'm sure over the course of the next couple weeks, I'll end up with something.

So, Jenn gets back this afternoon after being gone for 2 hours and all she's bought is the movie "Happy Feet." For herself. It's all good. She deserves it. She was excited about it. She couldn't find anything or she didn't want to stand in line. She took 2 trips up north Prospect and I took one and then we find out this afternoon that we're almost out of formula. Argh..."hi ho, hi ho it's off to Sam's we go..."