This weekend is always a busy one for my family, much more so than Christmas. We have Thanksgiving at our house, so Thursday morning is usually spent cleaning and setting up the table for the arrival of my Grandma and other random family members that show up from year to year. On Friday my sister and I get up early to go shopping. This has been a tradition that my mom, aunt and grandma started a LONG time ago and my sister and I started our own tradition about four years ago. We shop on our own, but meet mom, my aunt and grandma for lunch to catch a second wind. Saturday is our extended family Christmas party, this has been a tradition long before I was alive, we have about 40 people that gather the Saturday after Thanksgiving and this year was our turn to host. Sunday is defintely the day of rest, but by the time Sunday comes I have no energy to do anything anyway.
This year Thanksgiving was pretty laid back, just grandma and Justin joined us for dinner, so it was relatively small. Justin and I traveled over to his grandparent's house after dinner to have dessert with his parents, grandparents and aunts family. It was a nice day. Lots of food, lots of laughter and lots of shopping preparation.
Friday morning my sister and I got up at 3am to get ready to head out into the craziness that is known as Black Friday. We started at JCPennys which opened at 4am, we ran in grabbed a gift for mom that we knew we wanted and then jumped in line before booking it out of there in time to get in line across the street at Target. We pulled into the parking lot to see a group of people standing in front of the store and got out to find that a line was wrapped around to the back of the building. We ended up waiting in line for 45 minutes, and for someone who didn't bring a coat (because I didn't expect to be standing outside... I thought we would take longer at JCPennys) I have to say it was absolutely freezing. Not as bad as it could have been, but freezing none the less. When we got through the doors Laura (my sister) and I started running to the middle of the store where they had the LCD TVs that I wanted. There were no carts left, so I ended up dragging a 40 inch LCD Flatscreen throughout Target while trying to dodge all kinds of crazies. After a pretty short line, a wait for Laura to get through line (we ended up getting sperated because she had more to shop for and I wasn't about to drag that dang TV around the store to shop), a failed attempt to get the TV to fit into my sisters car, a call to Mom to have her come outside and help me carry the TV to my aunts car and another stint in the freezing cold waiting for mom, I got my TV!!!! Justin and I are forgoing Christmas presents this year so we are splitting the cost of this TV so we have a nice one to put in our house (whenever we get one). From there Laura and I did a lot more shopping that resulted in quite a few presents, a wedding band for me and complete exhaustion!Saturday was the family party, and OH the drama that is involved with family parties. Honestly, I don't want to get into it because It's just too much to explain and will probably annoy me further.
So today I spent my time watching the Monk Marathon on USA and gluing the cork onto the back of my coasters. This was about all I had energy for today after the past 4 days, so at least I feel semi-accomplished.
I'll update in a little while about the house hunting. We've made some progress :)
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