this year too

look at my beautiful fatheads!

i don't really have much to say. thanksgiving was alright, although it didn't really seem like thanksgiving. we stayed here. we had turkey with our bible study leader's parents. it was good food! i was very grateful to them for having us there!
and before dinner, while it was still daylight, adam and i played some tennis until i couldn't take our suckiness any longer. we STINK to high heaven. if we are having a good day (which rarely happens) maybe, just maybe adam and i can volley about 5 times in a row. like i said, we're terrible. most of the time we just hit balls that bounce into the net, over the fence or off into the far corners of the court. but what am i saying? that's if we even hit the ball! so i guess you could say we don't really play tennis. we play something i like to call "pong." the rules are simple. hit the ball in a way in which the other person is able to hit it back, add one point. miss the ball, or hit it in a way in which the other person cannot hit it back, subtract one point. serves don't count for points. we try to get to 100 points. we've only reached it once and it took FOREVER. on thanksgiving day i think we hardly made it to 20. and i've had tennis lessons!! but at least we both suck together. i would feel bad for adam if he were way better than me.

the day after thanksgiving, adam and i woke up at the b-crack of dawn and went to take part in some of that holiday magic that comes around once a year on black friday. target was offering a dvd ash wants for christmas for $18 that normally goes for ~$35. so being the great sister i am, i thought adam and i could get out of bed, run over to target, grab the dvd, and be back in bed before you could blink. i had no idea. the next morning we left around 6:30am withOUT our cell phones. i didn't think we would need them. we got to target and i was shocked to find that there wasn't a single parking place! not a single space! people were parking on the grass or making their own spaces at the end of rows. it was MADDENING! my gosh. i had NO idea how crazy it was going to be. i thought that no one in their right mind would be up so early shopping. i was SO wrong. i let adam out of the car to grab the dvd and thought i would keep driving around until a spot became free. i drove around and around the parking lot for what seemed like hours (probably only 10 minutes) and fumed over not bringing my cell phone. i had just about decided to leave the parking lot all together and drive down the street when suddenly someone pulled out and no one was already in line for the spot. i then ran into the target and rubbed shoulders with about 1000 people while trying to find adam. i looked for what seemed like hours (again, probably only 10 minutes), before i decided i would go and page him from the front of the store. but i finally found him waiting in the longest line i had ever seen. so about 1 1/2 hours later, adam and i returned home. gee. i like saving money, but THAT was CUR-A-ZEE. at least now i know how this black friday stuff works. there needs to be at least two of you and you MUST have cell phones! as much as i hate crowds and being up before the sun, i do love saving money. though, it looks like during the week after thanksgiving there are other sales going on as well. so is it worth waking up early to fight over all this crap?? i dunno. i hate to admit it, but i'll probably be one of those crazy wake-up-at-5-in-the-freakin-morning-to-catch-the-sale moms, if what i am specifically after goes on a crazy low sale. it's like the money experts say, never buy at full price.