Black Friday! No it's NOT the plague!
HAPPY BLACK FRIDAY!!! Much more exciting than thanksgiving, this is the shopping holiday that traditionally puts retailers yearly balance books out of the red and into the black. For us, however, that's more likely to happen NEVER!!! but that's okay, it's still just as hectic and scattered here at the store, and i am anxiously awaiting our opening in an hour an a half....
Last night was thanksgiving at my mother's house, featuring mystery guests, dessert joined by the A-------d clan, and LEAH'S SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER!!!!! These days i am convinced that absolutely no one likes me, that everything i say sounds stupid or retarded, that i look like a fat ugly slob, and that everyone is murmuring these things under their breath. My parents are disapointed by my life choices, my brother in law hates me for being a sell-out, his girlfriend thinks i'm pushy and annoying, and my own husband is only tollerating my presence until i straighten up and lose that f-ing 15 pounds i put on since our numptuals. Am i making these things up??? MAYBE! Who knows? They're true enough in my head to send me vomiting in a corner at the thought of meeting new people. Maybe what i need is an airport bench on the beach.....
On the plus side, i am completely ready for a busy day at the store, what with eating 15hundred pounds of carbs last night and completely obliterating my South Beach diet that was going so well... Not. Bring on the customers! Maybe this year i will get still more women asking me when the baby's due!!!
OMG, i almost forgot!!!
daddy: "I just heard, and i want to offer you my condolenced."
Leah: "Why!!??? What happened???!!!"
daddy: "Jessica"
Leah: "Jessica who?"
daddy: "Jessica Simpson..."
Leah: "Wha... they didn't..."
daddy: "I'm sorry, but Nick and Jessica broke up."
Leah: "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
I'm sorry Nick and Jessica. I loved you both together, but you will be very irritating to me apart. I will morn the loss by finding a different celebrity endorsed lipgloss.
Leah: "You couldn't have waited until after thanksgiving to tell me???"
Holy Discount Batman!
This evening Dan and i traveled to the mall to bask in the glow of the beautiful TMobile Sidekick. He had only heard stories about the wonder of portable internet surfing / picture taking / email writing with a full keyboard / looking snobby device, but Dan had never seen the magic upclose. We had the intention of waiting for Christmas, and I was holding out for the pink version (only available online) until the store salesman told us of the expensive hassle of changing over the phone number, and the expensiveness of the pinkness alone, and that only this weekend they were having a $100 off sale, which is a lot of dollars, especially off.
And so all of a sudden, it was mine! I bought it! The beautiful TMobile Sidekick 2, with full color screen, AIM, Outlook appointment book, and super-posh awesomeness. Impulsiveness = the only way i do anything. But this time the devil whispering in my ear was Dan, and what he said was, "You should get it. This thing is really really cool."