Despite my boyfriend, his brother-in-law, and his 2 sisters getting up in the middle of the night to go shopping on Black Friday I spent my Black Friday how it should be spent...in bed.
His sisters got up at 2am in order to be somewhere at 3am. Paul and his bro-in-law got up at 4am to leave at 4:30am. They all ran into each other at Sears at 5am.
The only time I am getting out of bed to leave the house at 3am or 4am is if the house is on fire...and even then it's really a crap shoot if I actually will get up...depends a lot on how sleepy and lazy I am (I have minimal survival instinct).
Besides I figure there is NOTHING I need on sale at 5 o'clock in the morning that I wouldn't be willing to pay full price for at a more reasonable hour and if I can't afford it for full price then I probably don't need it in the first place.
And the poor man trampled to death at Walmart just confirms my belief that CRAZY people shop at Walmart. How desperate for a flat screen tv do you need to be to literally trample someone to death. Come on people!
Between that and watching JackAss 2 on Thanksgiving I have figured out that America is in a downfall. Have you ever seen JackAss 2? If any of those were my sons I would disown them. I have never seen such stupid people in my entire life. And its a sad commentary on American culture when such stupidity allows idiots to get rich while other people struggle and can't find full time jobs despite have a masters degree. We live in a sad, sad world. We have people in our country who are homeless and yet I watched some guy get a dildo shot up his ass, pour beer into his ass, climb on top of a rocket and get shot over a lake, put on a helmet and let someone fart into it (take your pick as to which is the most completely asinine).
Topped only by the news that a professional football player shot himself in the leg in a nightclub...really? Really?
Yes, despite being a Democrat, I believe that our stupidity as a nation will be our utter demise. The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard and so Darwin's theory of natural selection is utterly irrelevant in today's society.
All that being said we did put up our Christmas tree yesterday, buying said tree from a very interesting good ole boy from GA who could not stop talking about how Obama can't produce a birth certificate. Really? Ya think that American citizenship wouldn't be something that the Democrats wouldn't have checked out before allowing him to run or that McCain wouldn't have jumped all over in his ad campaigns. Hmmm...perhaps that is why you sell Christmas trees for a living.
I am excited for Christmas. My only hope is that people remember that Christmas is not about capitalism, but about spending time with loved ones, giving back to others, and being grateful for all you do have.
Hope everyone had a safe and happy Thanksgiving!
