But it used to be. Mookie will remember well the years that we ventured out at midnight (when stores actually kept their doors closed until midnight!) and saw all kinds of shenanigans. There was the year we went to Target only to find the line out the doors and wrapped around the parking lot. There was the year we went to Walmart and realized they were about to cut open their "midnight special" boxes, and that we were probably going to get trampled. (This story ends with us hopping a store barricade and getting yelled at by the security guy.) There was the year we were waiting in line at Kohl's at about 2:00AM, falling asleep on our feet, only to realize we were buying something that wasn't that great of a deal anyway! These are fond memories in that they were goofy times spent with my sister. These were not fond memories in the sense that I got the greatest deal imaginable, and therefore NEED to Black Friday shop. It was just a weird part of quality, holiday family time. Last year...in her Thanksgiving night absence...I shopped on Amazon...
But that's next weekend, this weekend is all about not shopping, getting ready for our Thanksgiving road trip to Tennessee, and football (as J Word and I prepare for Round 2 of "A House Divided" Packer/Vikings showdown). To help launch you into your own weekend festivities, here's a Friday Five!
1. This week I dyed my hair. It's very brown, and very different then it was; but I think I'm over the initial shock of it, and will probably even come to love it (though my stylist assures me that, it I don't, she can have it back to blonde by the wedding!) I did this on a little bit of a whim, but in the full assurance and confidence that I was paying a professional a decent sum of money not to ruin my too horribly. Had I done this by myself, with a box in the bathroom, I guarantee this would have been my inner monologue...which is why I'll never do it at home by myself!
2. Last weekend J Word and I took our engagement pictures in the snow, which sounds cute until the photographer confesses that the camera lens can't focus through the flakes anymore, and you end up in the skyways downtown taking creatively shot indoor pictures, while still slightly soggy from the winter mess outside. (It's all totally fine though. It was a ton of fun, and our photographer was grand!) Nevertheless, winter seems to be sticking around for good, and this depressing little story seems to prove it.
3. ...But I'm not really complaining about the winter weather, because at least I don't like in Buffalo!
4. In the event that you do plan to go Black Friday shopping...good for you! Might I suggest picking up Lammily, the realistically proportioned Barbie that comes with acne stickers and stretch marks. Yes...this is a real thing!
5. And last but not least, J Word has recently gone gluten free, and as a result, I'm in the process of learning how to cook and bake all over again. Ok...that's not totally true, but I read A LOT more ingredients labels than I used to, and I used to read A LOT of ingredients labels anyway. So tips like these common baking mistakes are very helpful, and I offer them to you in the event you should ever need to go GF yourself!
Happy Trails,
Oh my goodness! I loved our day after Thanksgiving trips! It was awesome to jump barricades and get yelled at by security all in an effort to not die. I wouldn't want to share those memories with anyone else.
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