Thanksgiving is over...

The Thanksgiving holidays are over, and we are safe and sound after the frenzy of Black Friday shopping. Thanksgiving was very nice--great food, great company, and many hours of sitting around the kitchen table with the sales papers everywhere. I know it's silly, but we have so much fun going through all the ads and talking about what we're getting who for Christmas, and what we have left to buy, or where we bought such-and-such for so-and-so. Oh, and I started the day with a successful run to CVS and scored over a hundred dollars worth of stuff free, and you know how that turns me on cheers me up.

As for Black Friday... it went fine. Evelyn was pretty well-behaved. I was up at four (darling darling child woke up and kept me awake until midnight, yay) and shopping by five, but we left Evelyn at home with M until he woke her up and brought her out to me at 6:45 before heading to work. (Long-ass commute from Pseudonymous Hometown to his job.) That was a terrific idea and it worked wonderfully--the one risk was that she would be disconsolate because Mama and the nummy-nummy wasn't there, but she was fine. Confused and amused and fine. Honestly, the deals were not that super-hot, and we all got sidetracked by ham before we left, so we didn't get to many of the things we were considering. Also, this particular Walmart has a jerkface manager who did not want to pricematch, even though they've been running ads for weeks saying that Walmart will pricematch doorbuster ads. To get around that, they decided to only pricematch ads from other businesses in town. Hahaha. Thing is, they have already run all the other stores out of business. Besides Walmart, there's basically a couple of dollar stores, Big Lots, Radio Shack and Lowes. And oddly, they pricematch stores within the normal range all the time, except for this weekend! How odd and convenient for them! They are thieving whores with gigantic asses. But I'm not bitter. It was a weekend sale, not a doorbuster, that I wanted to pricematch. K-Mart had those game rugs with the roads printed on them for $12.99. I went to two K-Marts later on and neither had it, so I pricematched at our Walmart in town last night. They just about share a parking lot, so I'd like to see them tell me THEY aren't in their market.

(Incidentally, we bought her the ugly Tonka variety rug and not one of the pink frilly princess ones. Pink is beginning to give M rashes. He keeps telling me that we weren't going to do this, surround our girl child in all pink all the time, but everything! is! so! pink! And, he is right, but in my defense a) my mom buys most of her clothes, not me and b) it is fricking cute. At least her walls aren't pink? Surely that counts for something?)

And then! On Saturday, M and I went on a date! All alone! With no baby! It was to celebrate our anniversary, which was a couple of weeks ago and which we were both (but especially M) sick for. I hate to even tell you what we did because it is so boring. We went to Walmart and ambled through the store in search of nothing in particular, and then we ate lunch. That was it. In our defense, it was cold out, there was nothing on at the movies that we wanted to see, and said hometown is pretty small and there isn't all that much to do on the spur of the moment. We thought about heading down to the lake to make out (for old time's sake) but we are too married for that, I guess. My poor parents were excited about babysitting, but I got her to sleep just before we left and she didn't wake up until about twenty minutes before we got back, so they didn't get to take her anywhere. They were hoping to go somewhere and then run into someone they knew so they could show her off, I think. They're so cute.

Also, we did not sleep enough this weekend (though last night helped) so I think I shall go work on the nap project a little more.