I Survived Black Friday...
Black Friday was crazy! I can't believe all the people, men and women, who either stay up and never sleep or get up very early with hardly any sleep, and go shopping at 3-4-5:00 in the morning!
And I was one of them...
I went to bed at 11:30, woke up at 1:00, couldn't sleep so I got up at 2:00 and decided to go to Kohl's which was opening at 3 a.m. I got there just as they were opening the doors. The parking lot was full and people were lined up at the door all the way down to almost where the movie theater was. It took me awhile to even get in the store.
The main thing I wanted were these boots. The regular price was $50 and the early bird sale on them was $19.99, plus I had a 15% coupon to use which brought it down to only $17. They came in either grey or black and I really wanted the grey pair but none in my size left by the time I got in the store and found my way to the shoe department. I've been in that store a million times, but I was so sleep-deprived I couldn't even remember where the damn shoe department even was and I was wondering aimlessly through the store and finally had to ask someone. Anyway, luckily the black ones were still available in my size. Then I started wandering aimlessly again looking for these Muc-Lucs I wanted and I even had cut the picture out of the paper of them and had written 'Kohl's' on it. I finally asked a sales person and she didn't even know what they were and couldn't find them either. Turns out Kohl's wasn't selling them....it was another store! So by the time I decided I better get in line cause I had to be at Sears by 4:00 the line was so long and I knew there was no way I would make it to Sears by 4. I also knew that if I put the boots back, they would be gone before I even got out of the store.
So I decided to hide the box with the boots. I found a king-size comforter way down on the bottom shelf and I slid the box behind it. Then I scurried out of the store and drove to Sears just in time for the doors to open. The TV I thought I wanted turned out to be too small so I nixed it and drove back to Kohl's to retrieve my boots (which were still there behind the comforter!) and I got in a line that was now 3 times longer than it was before. It took exactly one hour before I reached the checkout line at 5:30.
Then I decided to go to Target which had opened at 5....but the lines there were so long I decided to not even buy anything. I was in no mood to stand in another line for an hour.
I grabbed a cappacino and drove home by 6:00 and went through the ads again trying to find which store had the Muc Lucs....it was Parisian....so off I went to Parisian where I then sifted through 3 boxes of Muc Lucs trying to find a pair I like in my size and BINGO..I found a pair!...They are more conservative than some...basically black and grey.
Got home around 8:00, laid down for a bit...got up at 9:30 and by 10:30 I was off to Office Depot where I bought a new printer.
Then I went to Westland Mall for awhile.
By evening I was dragging my butt. I had been shopping since 3 in the morning with one hour's sleep in me.
Went to bed by 11:00 and that was my Black Friday experience...
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Today I went to Barnes and Noble to see Deidre Hall (Marlena Evans of 'Days Of Our Lives'). She was there doing a book signing with a couple other guys. The guys had a 45th anniversary book on Days and she had a receipe book. I bought both books. And stood in line to see and talk to her. She is such a gracious lady...so very very nice and pleasurable.
Remember a while back I had went to Art Van and saw 'Daniel and Chloe', also from Days....I'm a big Days fan. Started watching the show back in the middle 70's.
Anyway, I had someone take a really good picture of me standing with her...but later when I was trying to zoom in to get a closer shot, I accidentally clicked the Delete button!!...instead of the OK button and I lost it...Gone...just disappeared. I knew immediately what I had done and could have cried I was so upset. I've done tht before with a couple pictures. Damn!..you'd think I would know better by now. Anyway, I know a friend of mine deleted all her pictures by mistake and took her camera some place and they retrieved them for her, so I'm going to look into trying to get it back. Hopefully, I can. In the meantime, I took the memory card out of my camera and I'll use a different one.
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Hubby and I are leaving for Caseville tomorrow. We have to be back home by Thursday for a Xmas festivities thing going on here in our hometown.
Ciao
And I was one of them...
I went to bed at 11:30, woke up at 1:00, couldn't sleep so I got up at 2:00 and decided to go to Kohl's which was opening at 3 a.m. I got there just as they were opening the doors. The parking lot was full and people were lined up at the door all the way down to almost where the movie theater was. It took me awhile to even get in the store.
The main thing I wanted were these boots. The regular price was $50 and the early bird sale on them was $19.99, plus I had a 15% coupon to use which brought it down to only $17. They came in either grey or black and I really wanted the grey pair but none in my size left by the time I got in the store and found my way to the shoe department. I've been in that store a million times, but I was so sleep-deprived I couldn't even remember where the damn shoe department even was and I was wondering aimlessly through the store and finally had to ask someone. Anyway, luckily the black ones were still available in my size. Then I started wandering aimlessly again looking for these Muc-Lucs I wanted and I even had cut the picture out of the paper of them and had written 'Kohl's' on it. I finally asked a sales person and she didn't even know what they were and couldn't find them either. Turns out Kohl's wasn't selling them....it was another store! So by the time I decided I better get in line cause I had to be at Sears by 4:00 the line was so long and I knew there was no way I would make it to Sears by 4. I also knew that if I put the boots back, they would be gone before I even got out of the store.
So I decided to hide the box with the boots. I found a king-size comforter way down on the bottom shelf and I slid the box behind it. Then I scurried out of the store and drove to Sears just in time for the doors to open. The TV I thought I wanted turned out to be too small so I nixed it and drove back to Kohl's to retrieve my boots (which were still there behind the comforter!) and I got in a line that was now 3 times longer than it was before. It took exactly one hour before I reached the checkout line at 5:30.
Then I decided to go to Target which had opened at 5....but the lines there were so long I decided to not even buy anything. I was in no mood to stand in another line for an hour.
I grabbed a cappacino and drove home by 6:00 and went through the ads again trying to find which store had the Muc Lucs....it was Parisian....so off I went to Parisian where I then sifted through 3 boxes of Muc Lucs trying to find a pair I like in my size and BINGO..I found a pair!...They are more conservative than some...basically black and grey.
Got home around 8:00, laid down for a bit...got up at 9:30 and by 10:30 I was off to Office Depot where I bought a new printer.
Then I went to Westland Mall for awhile.
By evening I was dragging my butt. I had been shopping since 3 in the morning with one hour's sleep in me.
Went to bed by 11:00 and that was my Black Friday experience...
___________________________
Today I went to Barnes and Noble to see Deidre Hall (Marlena Evans of 'Days Of Our Lives'). She was there doing a book signing with a couple other guys. The guys had a 45th anniversary book on Days and she had a receipe book. I bought both books. And stood in line to see and talk to her. She is such a gracious lady...so very very nice and pleasurable.
Remember a while back I had went to Art Van and saw 'Daniel and Chloe', also from Days....I'm a big Days fan. Started watching the show back in the middle 70's.
Anyway, I had someone take a really good picture of me standing with her...but later when I was trying to zoom in to get a closer shot, I accidentally clicked the Delete button!!...instead of the OK button and I lost it...Gone...just disappeared. I knew immediately what I had done and could have cried I was so upset. I've done tht before with a couple pictures. Damn!..you'd think I would know better by now. Anyway, I know a friend of mine deleted all her pictures by mistake and took her camera some place and they retrieved them for her, so I'm going to look into trying to get it back. Hopefully, I can. In the meantime, I took the memory card out of my camera and I'll use a different one.
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Hubby and I are leaving for Caseville tomorrow. We have to be back home by Thursday for a Xmas festivities thing going on here in our hometown.
Ciao
posted by Diane @ 12:11 AM
1 Comments:
At 10:59 PM,
Judy said…
I love Days--have been watching it since the first show--of course, I am older then you, LOL. My middle daughter use to wear her hair like Hope's, back in the 70's. I hate the Carley is now with Bo--what's up with that? Stupid! Glad you got to see Marlena--what a neat thing.
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