Happy Thanksgiving!

It was a good Thanksgiving and a good Black Friday. On Thanksgiving I slept in and then went over to my parents’ house and helped get ready for dinner. We ate our Thanksgiving Feast in the early afternoon. It was delicious thanks to Katie and my mom. Thank you Katie and Mom! Then we played games and watched movies and relaxed for the rest of the evening. We took naps in preparation for the midnight black Friday sales. I went with Katie to Target. We got there about 15 minutes before the doors opened, and the line to get in the store wrapped around the back of the building. Waiting in line would have been better, but there was this poor group of teenagers right in front of us. They were very scantily clad. Two of them were wearing cartoon socks instead of shoes. They were rocking out to some songs with very inappropriate lyrics and showing off some even less appropriate dance moves. There was a nice couple behind me and Katie that thanked us for our behavior in line. They were fun to talk to in line. They drove to this specific target because they thought the line would be shorter. They had passed by 4 other Targets on their way to this one and said this line was definitely shorter. That made me happy. They were shopping for a new TV and for some Christmas gifts for their sons. The mom is a school counselor, and I don’t remember what the dad did for a living, but they were a nice couple. We finally got into Target at about 12:15am. We went straight to the back of the store (there was a blue line marked on the floor for anyone wanting electronics). In the electronics section, we got in another line. It took about an hour for me to get to the front of the line. Every few minutes, and employee would work his way down the line announcing that another electronic item had been sold out. I was worried that we would get right up to the front, and then he would say that the netbook I wanted was all gone, but I made it just in time! There were 5 more netbooks left. I was happy. I’ve been wanting a little netbook for a couple years now, but they’ve been too far out of my price range. This one was on sale. It was a doorbuster black Friday sale. Plus, I really needed something to make sure I can finish my homework for the next five and a half months until I graduate. My poor laptop has been on its last leg for a while. Its outer shell casing is cracked, so I can’t really carry it around much, because I don’t want it to break the rest of the way and fall apart. So it is like a little desktop that is over seven years old and runs really slow and just can’t handle much. It works okay as long as I treat it soft and only do homework and don’t browse the internet too much. Now I can do my homework and browse the internet without worrying about a crash. This netbook is pretty low end as far as netbooks go. It is the basic of the basic, but it will do just fine until I get out of school. I like it. So, after we got this netbook, we headed over to Old Navy. I was going to pick up some jeans for me and a present for mom, but they were out of the thing I wanted to get mom, and the jeans were in such disarray that I couldn’t find my size. Katie found cute clothes, but the line to check out was three times the length of the store. One nice employee I ran into told us that we could put things on layaway and then just come back before the sale ended at eight to buy our stuff, so we did. There was a little bit of confusion when I asked a different employee to put it on layaway for us. She was quite outraged and claimed it was against the rules, so I apologized, and went back to the first employee. She was super friendly, and we were out of old navy by two am. Then we were going to check on the Gap outlet, but traffic was horrible. There were at least four cops directing traffic just to get into the parking lot. We pulled a u turn. We decided to sleep from three until six, and then we got up and finished shopping. The pick up went well at old navy. I found jeans that were in my size. I really want the ones that are an inch shorter in the legs, so I will maybe exchange them for the shorter ones next week. But, the ones I have now will work, and they were only fifteen dollars each. Then we went to Macy’s, the gap outlet, and hobby lobby. I didn’t get anything else, but Katie found some good deals. After shopping, I slept until the afternoon. We had waffles and hashbrowns, and rested and watched tv. It was nice and relaxing. I’m still working on getting over my cough/URI. My nose seems much better, but I have bronchitis and maybe some mild pneumonia. I am coughing up a lot of junk from my lungs. If I lay on my left side, I don’t cough as much.

For Thanksgiving I am thankful for...
My family
My job at the physical therapy clinic
The surgical tech school program I am in
Graduation is in less than 6 months
My car works
My new netbook computer
My dog
Good food
My faith